For the last 40 years, the Ly family has lived in a Montreal duplex, but now they must find a new home as the city's public transit agency, Société de transport de Montréal (STM), expropriates their property to build a subway ventilation station. The family, including retired elderly parents in their 70s, is upset about the unexpected relocation.
MONTREAL — For the last 40 years the four-member Ly family has lived in a Montreal duplex, but after the holidays they will have to find a new home because the city's public transit agency is expropriating the property to build a subway ventilation station.
“They're very upset and they're sad because they don't want to leave this house,” Ly said of his parents. “That's the first home that they bought so they really want to stay there and leave the house to the kids for the next generation." On Thursday, Ly attended a transit agency budget meeting at Montreal City Hall. He said the STM has still not clearly demonstrated to his family why it chose to seize their home when there were other options nearby for the ventilation station.After finding out about the expropriation in November, some people in the neighbourhood have rallied behind the Ly family. A petition on change.org to stop the STM reached nearly 2,900 signatures as of Friday afternoon.
STM spokesperson Amélie Régis said the agency studied “a dozen locations” before settling with the Ly home.
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