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Construction du métro sur la ligne Bleue entre les stations Snowdon et Côte-des-Neiges 1977 [archives de la presse]
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A Montreal sunrise
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Jason Slaughter visits Montreal in his longest video to date, and gives a balanced look at the city’s recent efforts to move forward with pedestrianization, better transit and bike infrastructure, tempered with the reality that a lot of the city is still suffering from postwar car-centric “urban renewal,” and that while the Metro and REM are impressive, surface transit is slow and very patchy outside core neighborhoods.
It is illustrative of the fact that a lot of the damage created by cars is hard to undo, and cities often end up with “islands of walkability” hemmed in between arterial roads.
#urbanism#not just bikes#jason slaughter#montreal#bike infrastructure#montreal metro#stroads#Youtube
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Heya! Hope you're okay with some train rambles?
I've been researching trains/subways systems from around the world, then I remembered that my home city, Montréal, has one! So I went in and checked around for info, and consider me surprised! Apparently it's the second most expansive system, only behind NY! And there's already constructions ongoing to expand the Blue Line to add another 5 stations on top of the 68 there are right now, not to mention all the buses and trains to the suburbs (all are handled by a single company, so everything is on time and even the bus lines are so good)
I remember clearly when they phased out the MR-63 trains to the newer MR-73 around 1977, though visually they were pretty similar, and ran together on the same lines. It's pretty cool that the MR-63 were the original trains since opening of the system in 1966! And didn't fully retire until 2018! Not to mention the new MPM-10 aka "Azur" (name was decided by the people through polls) which are amazingly well-made by Bombardier, who made all the STM's trains as well as some iconic monorails!
So when Azur launched and they were still phasing out the MR-63, there were moments that, on one station in particular, Lionel-Groulx, which have all 4 connecting lines in an open station pattern, you could see all 3 models running at the same time together!
And all stations were built to have very different styles and looks! Some have stained glass walls, some are colorful, some lean more into brutalism with pops of colors, etc. They're very beautiful, and many have ties to the very locations they were built on! The stations themselves are a huge part of the underground city too, as it only exists due to them!
And one thing I really like about the Métro is that they all run on primary rubber tires and only have conventional steel wheels as backup or during track changes! They have little concrete rollways next to the tracks and the third rail. It's pretty neat!
And soon with the new Tramway they're building (which I see the constructions often enough, it's getting built so fast!), there's going to be even more trains!
TL;DR: I took my city's subway for granted, and turns out there's so many cool facts I didn't know!
Aaaah, this is so much wonderful information - thank you for sharing it with me! I'm so glad you're finding a real love for your local public transportation - once you really get to know your system inside and out, you can get yourself and other people pretty much anywhere and really explore down there, and it's so fun, especially if you find out stations were abandoned, etc. This sounds like a newer system, so you might not have as much abandoned stuff to look for as I do, but you never know!
I believe the Metro in Paris also uses a rubber wheel system. Rubber wheels actually allow for faster acceleration, which is more efficient for a public transit system in a large city since you're able to move more people faster that way. It gives you an advantage when going uphill, too!
I wonder if you've got a local transit museum that preserves some of those older cars, too. Here in NYC, we have the New York Transit Museum, which maintains some of our older rolling stock and even brings it out for rides (I'm taking some 1930s cars out to Coney Island for a jaunt in early July and I'm stoked!). Hopefully they're preserving examples of the older cars for your subway, too!
I am actually seriously delighted when other people tell me about their local trains - it makes me so happy and I love that I get to share this genuine passion of mine with other people and hear about trains from all over the world! It's a nice unifying feeling - we all have to get places, and we all have really cool ways of getting to them.
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I love the Montreal metro so much I can’t put it into words
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Photography: Montreal Metro
Photography: Montreal Metro @montreal @stm_Orange @stm_Verte @stm_Jaune @stm_Bleue @stminfo @stm_nouvelles
Last month, I went to Montreal, to cover the 17th edition of M for Montreal (M pour Montreal in French), an annual conference and festival, which takes place over the course of four days in late November in Canada’s second largest city. Since the inaugural edition back in 2005, M for Montreal quickly expanded to feature a selection of over 100 emerging, buzz-worthy and/or breakout acts from…
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McGill metro station, Montreal
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The Tunnel by navejo
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Station Lionel Groulx
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Hope I'm not overstepping! But I found a nice little video of the Montreal subway (which im obsessed with!) And I'd like to share it with you!
The Montreal Metro is known for their artistic stations, which are amazing! And the trains are very nice too! The video is slightly under 13 minutes if you want to see it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfYgsWxqiUg
It just makes me feel giddy and happy that so much effort was made on having all stations being so artfully different from each others! And I remember a good chunk of them too as I've gone there really often!
You're definitely not overstepping - I LOVE when people send me train stuff! It makes my day!
I love when subways put that sort of effort into making the stations artistically unique! Here in NYC the MTA has an entire arts division devoted to bringing visual and performing arts to the subway system, and it's really cool. I love bopping around to different stations to find stained glass, murals, or other art down there! Since most of our system is over 100 years old now, it's a great way to revitalize stations and give them new life, and it also brightens people's commutes!
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Empty REM Stations before the grand opening on July 31st 2023.
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ok who's the oui oui baguette bitch outside my window ringing their fucking bell like it's 1745 and they are the town cryer
#I DON'T EVEN LIVE IN OLD MONTREAL????#ooc. claireposting.#IM LIKE 30 MINUTES BY METRO OUT FROM OLD PORT WHO IS RINGING A BELL IN MY GOOD SILENT COMMUNE.
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