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High Speed Monorail Montreal to Quebec City Faded Dreams

  There has been 65 years worth of studies and there still is no monorail in Canada operating as part of public transit system.  TrensQuébec High Speed Monorail Conceptual Design Montreal to Quebec City High Speed Monorail Proposal - 2008 - Present Quebec physicist Dr. Pierre Couture spent most of his career working at Hydro-Québec, Between 1982 and 1995, working with a small budget, the team developed an electric-powered motor-wheel. Mr. Couture had developed a high speed rail suspended monorail based on this technology. A group formed with Jean-Pierre Marchand, director TrensQuébec , and Pierre Langlois, physicist and specialist in sustainable mobility to promote this technology.  The idea was to run a high speed suspended monorail from Montreal to Quebec-City and other locations. It could run at 250 km/h.