The World's Newest Metro is Here! | Montreal REM

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After what feels like decades covering the project, the Montreal REM is finally open; it's fast, frequent, modern, and now we've finally gotten the chance to get onboard - so come along!
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@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

Ride along with our timelapse video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q23mkh8rX88.html

@yourlocalskoda4860 11 месяцев назад

question, why was it so empty when you were riding the trains?

@bahnspotterEU 11 месяцев назад

@@yourlocalskoda4860 Because he rode before the opening. He said that at the beginning of the video...

@JamesFFiT 11 месяцев назад

Good job Reece I wish I could smell that new train with you!

@abhin_5435 11 месяцев назад

Can you make a small video about the water metro from india, kochi

@gabetalks9275 11 месяцев назад

I would love it if you'd make a video covering ReThinkNYC's proposal for a unified regional rail network called RUN. Andy Byford is backing the plan, and recently, all three of the outer regional rail services (NJTransit, Long Island Railroad, and Amtrak) all came out and said that MSG and Penn Station are no longer compatible. ReThinkNYC wants to rebuild Penn Station back to its former glory. This is one of the most important transit projects in all of North America, yet barely anyone is talking about, but your channel has the reach to bring more awareness to it, so I think it would for a great video.

@gmbigger 11 месяцев назад

As a Seattle resident, it blows my mind that this project phase is already finished. Our light rail expansion was approved in 2016 and the transition agency still hasn’t even picked a preferred alignment.

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

It’s amazing how fast they move!

@intergalactic_butterfly 11 месяцев назад

As someone who's been living part-time in Tacoma for college and becoming interested in living in the greater Seattle-Tacoma area, I really wish Seattle was building a light metro network like the REM or the SkyTrain instead of light rail. Light rail really doesn't work well for the long distances that Sound Transit is building. The obsession that US transit agencies have with light rail is so frustrating and limiting. Also the Sounder trains should really run more often than just at commute hours! I'd love to take the South Line to Seattle on a weekend for example!

@CyanideCarrot 11 месяцев назад

I was just thinking the same thing! We're currently stuck bickering over the *draft* environmental impact statements for most of our projects that were approved at the same time as the REM, with groundbreaking being years away

@sea80vicvan 11 месяцев назад

@evanwilson9723 unfortunately the Sounder trains run on BNSF tracks, so freight trains have the right of way and Sounder is thus limited on the times they can run. Sad as that is itself a useful train that would be even better if it ran regularly outside peak commuter hours.

@intergalactic_butterfly 11 месяцев назад

@@sea80vicvan Yeah, it's sad, but there are many commuter/regional rail agencies that have bought track from freight companies (Coaster and GO come to mind), so maybe someday…

@japanesetrainandtravel6168 11 месяцев назад

As a Canadian, I am so happy to see great transit projects like finally being inaugurated! REM is what The Eglinton Crosstown and O Train should have been. Everything from Automation to well designed trains and stations make the REM the envy of rapid transit in North America

@Passque666 11 месяцев назад

Its inaugurated but only in Quebec which is already sooo different than any provinces.

@JamesPhieffer 11 месяцев назад

In Ottawa we'd be happy if our trains just functioned. Any other system, no matter how bad, is better than the O-Train if it just moves people. 🙄🤦🏼‍♂️

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

Yes! It’s a fantastic project and an exciting time for Canada!

@jordencoles5313 11 месяцев назад

@@JamesPhieffer Finch lrt will run before Eglinton in Toronto just watch

@swissneutrality9819 11 месяцев назад

@@RMTransit RMTransit, didn’t Taizhou also just open Line 1 on a new metro line? Isn’t that also considered a new metro in the world?

@fernbedek6302 11 месяцев назад

One big impact for the REM will definitely be the spread of wheelchair accessible rapid transit to more parts of the city, something the old Metro isn’t great at.

@kb_100 11 месяцев назад

A happy secondary benefit of being wheelchair accessible is the system is also easy to navigate with a stroller. Which is something I definitely struggle with on the metro as I don't like putting the stroller on an escalator with the baby inside.

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely concur! The accessibility improvements are huge!

@cieludbjrg4706 11 месяцев назад

@@kb_100 In Oslo, where the Metro is too deep for escalators (or the rare instance where a platform only has stairs) there are elevators. But retrofitting the Montreal Metro will cost…

@crinolynneendymion8755 11 месяцев назад

@@RMTransit Highlights the lack of foresight with the metro.

@kaitlyn__L 11 месяцев назад

Nice to see I'm not the only one commenting about this :) those trains look especially navigable by wheelchair! Instead of being stuck in one corner of one carriage for an entire train.

@tonywalters7298 11 месяцев назад

Between the REM and Honolulu, 2023 is an exciting year for new transit systems in North American jurisdictions. (yes technically Hawaii is Oceania, but still)

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely, things are getting so much better!

@Geotpf 11 месяцев назад

Don't forget the Regional Connector in Los Angeles. (Not a new line per se but improves connectivity on basically the whole system.)

@nottimhortons 11 месяцев назад

Hawaii isn’t in the Continental US, but it’s still part of the US.

@TheHomieRicky 11 месяцев назад

I'm so pleased with the REM's opening as it significantly cuts my commute time from downtown to Du Quartier and it runs FAR more frequently than the 2 bus routes passing near my work. I'm absolutely shocked at the 5 year build time considering how jaded I've been from living in Toronto and seeing firsthand the Eglinton Line's progress.

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

It’s really impressive, especially given the stations are quite nice!

@Hemant.s 11 месяцев назад

Eglinton line will never finish

@dillonm913 11 месяцев назад

The Eglinton Line's progress? What progress? What are you on?

@Ejb905 6 месяцев назад

Yes! Metrolinx's should be held accountable for their failures on the Eglinton LRT's delays. It scares me on how they are going to do the Hamilton King St LRT. I grew up in Montreal, lived in Toronto for 15 years and now live in Hamilton. It looks like the REM has helped make Montreal's system the best in Canada.

@faliyo3053 11 месяцев назад

Such a well done video! As a Montrealer, it made me a bit emotional as sad as that is. Im excited to explore more of the surrounding areas with my bicycle thanks to the REM.

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

Thank you! It’s going to open up a ton more of the city!

@Zraknul 11 месяцев назад

Montreal and Quebec please teach Ontario how to build transit in a reasonably short time frame. You're our only hope.

@monsterincrement 11 месяцев назад

Bro, they only built 4 stations. Theres still 20 stations, the main ones under construction.

@prodICYN 9 месяцев назад

@@monsterincrement Still, 4 stations only 7 years after the project was announced is really good

@Shane_Shaney 8 месяцев назад

And please teach the US as well!

@duaaalzouman7185 3 месяца назад

@@monsterincrement phase 2 should open by end of 2024 , around 18 stations.

@SpriteStrikerAnimates 11 месяцев назад

Exciting to see the new transit that Montreal is cooking up. Hopefully the rest of the country can also continue to improve themselves!

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely, this is a model!

@123benny4 11 месяцев назад

Toronto is working on expanding it's lines as well.

@ianmackie8959 11 месяцев назад

Come to Vancouver. We have 2 new lines of rapid transit under construction as I type. By the end of this decade people will be able to use rapid transit to travel almost anywhere they need to go not only in Van but in surrounding communities.

@123benny4 11 месяцев назад

@@ianmackie8959 Yes, now we need a REM to go from Boucherville across the south shore to Ste Catherine.

@joaqueen 11 месяцев назад

@@ianmackie8959 Vancouver is beautiful!

@Bureaucromancer 11 месяцев назад

I think my big takeaway from this in combination with REM de l’est, as well as Toronto, is that pre-construction dithering is possibly the worst thing that can happen to a project. We’re in a place where there really needs to be a clear path to construction from day 0, since it really does seem that timely project are wholly possible, but that once delays start creeping in getting back on track is nearly impossible.

@andrewweitzman4006 11 месяцев назад

God help us all if the condo dwellers in Griffintown had started nattering on about the tRaIns aRe lOuD at the start of the project. I bet the CDPQ snowed them right from the start just to stop the NIMBYs.

@YoungThos 11 месяцев назад

Shock and awe! Announce and build transit before NIMBYs even know what hit 'em

@andrewweitzman4006 11 месяцев назад

@@joelfrigon-henrichon5696 Whinging about public transit bringing down the neighborhood has been around since the rich in Mayfair stopped trams going through and the merchants on Broadway didn't want a subway because of the potential crowds of plebes.

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

I think that’s a very very good point

@davidreichert9392 11 месяцев назад

There are also the WNIMBYs (Why not in my backyard?). I.e. the people who work to bring down projects because they're jilted that they're not getting that service. I don't know how much of an issue that is in Montreal, but just as big a problem in Toronto as the NIMBYs. Wedge issue politicians make great use of that.

@garciacalavera6830 11 месяцев назад

fantastic system. As a European, out of all the Canadian cities we visited, Montreal was by far the best one. Great architecture, great mix of people that speak English and French, great transport infrastructure (this was the only place we can rent bikes), great topography (flat Toronto could definitely use some hills) and best of all great food! great video

@TheTroyc1982 11 месяцев назад

Toronto is far from flat. I assume you only stayed in Downtown.

@garciacalavera6830 11 месяцев назад

@@TheTroyc1982 only stayed in the core yes, might have some hills on the outskirts, but nothing like Mont Real

@emthegem8141 11 месяцев назад

@@garciacalavera6830 Yeah word, Toronto has some 'bumps' shall we say - but Montreal has some real deal hills. Some decent slants in Toronto around Humber River maybe, but not much. Montreal has those San Fran style hills, especially around the mountain. Them streets sweep upwards, almost feels like that scene from Inception in some places ahahaha

@Leojw10 11 месяцев назад

Toronto has more skyscrapers bigger downtown and better transportation although Montreal the second biggest Canadian city starting to get as good as Toronto in terms of transportation

@garciacalavera6830 11 месяцев назад

@@Leojw10that's only your opinion

@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 11 месяцев назад

The flex of being one of the first to ride and test out the Wi-Fi by watching transit-oriented content of your own...love it! Noticed Classy Whale on your screen at 11:37 and that's an underrated channel of the transit community! Only two seconds in and you already mention platform screen doors...I think that's a new record! 😂But real talk, I don't blame you for loving platform screen doors so much! There are various benefits like climate control, reduced trash/debris on tracks, etc. With the biggest being of course safety. Stopping people from either jumping off or being pushed off. Nuns' Island was originally called Île Saint-Paul in honor of the founder of Montreal, Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve. The island was initially acquired in 1634 by Jean de Lauzon, who would become governor of New France. The island got its current name because the nuns of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame acquired the seigneurie de La Noue on the island in 1706. Following the British conquest, the other seigneurie was auctioned. The nuns purchased it too in 1769, becoming the sole owners of the island for the next 187 years. The nuns farmed the island, building houses and agricultural buildings, and later hired women to help with raising livestock. They continued farming until 1956.

@georgedanova5679 11 месяцев назад

15:42 "I think the system will generate a generation of growth and city-shaping influence". Exactly. Having grown up in Montreal in the 70s and 80s, that's what the Metro did for the city. This is the next phase of that city-shaping change for the better.

@Christian_Martel 11 месяцев назад

I agree. I live in Brossard and we are seeing already redevelopment around Du Quartier and Panama stations. Some developers had good lobbyists I think. 😂 Expect the same in Montreal and West Island.

@nickjoseph5224 11 месяцев назад

It didn't do that at all. The Metro did not create much of anything downtown or elsewhere. The REM will probably lose money. The Metro could have been done like this in the first place and saved millions of dollars by using existing rail lines.

@mattlang3696 11 месяцев назад

Been working on the REM since 2018 and enjoyed (almost) every minute 😅

@Urban_LP 4 месяца назад

Hi, the project is so cool. What was your job in the project ? Urbanist or Engineer, something like that?

@DevynCairns 11 месяцев назад

Such beautiful trains and stations. I appreciate that they learned lessons from Canada Line. We didn't even have signs for station names or route maps until a few years ago!!

@willmako5009 11 месяцев назад

The stations remind me of IKEA furniture: functional, pretty, modern-feeling and wooden

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

They had signs but with a different design that the rest of the network

@AverytheCubanAmerican 11 месяцев назад

You know you've made it when you get to ride this thing early! And being able to wave goodbye to traffic thanks to being on a train is always a treat! I'm thoroughly impressed with REM! Sure they're shorter, but like you said, they make up for that for being wide and not to mention speed and the headways! The platform at Gare Centrale reminds me of just how wide the platforms are for the 42nd Street Shuttle in NYC! It used to have four tracks but then it became a 2-track one with a single island platform. I'm glad the Champlain Bridge was redesigned. Not just because of the addition of rail, but because the old one was degraded by de-icing salt and couldn't handle higher volumes of traffic. Now it can! The current bridge was designed by Poul Ove Jensen, who was Dissing+Weitling's project manager for the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark! He also participated in the design for the Øresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden. It is one of the largest infrastructure projects ever built in North America and with an estimated 59 million vehicles a year, one of the busiest crossings on the continent. It is built to last 125 years with the usage of stainless steel and high-performance concrete.

@bengt_axle 11 месяцев назад

Wait until winter comes. The REM will be packed. Traveling at 80km/hr over the bridge while other cars are stuck on the approaches and in town due to congestion. People complain about the fare increases, but as fuel costs rise, the REM will be preferred because of the relative cost savings and convenience.

@OdinWannaBe 11 месяцев назад

its will for SURE be used, its the perfect line.

@hamradio3716 11 месяцев назад

I hope the REM overhead wire system works in freezing rain conditions. The LRT in Ottawa is a total disaster.

@karenjones6135 11 месяцев назад

Hold your enthusiasm until we see it work in the winter! I have a feeling that it will be down quite often.

@OdinWannaBe 11 месяцев назад

@@karenjones6135 its will face problem, it's normal, but it was already tested heavily for winter.

@bengt_axle 11 месяцев назад

@@karenjones6135 They did test it last winter (but with no passengers). I hope we will not have the problems they've had in Ottawa!

@alexseguin5245 11 месяцев назад

You heard it here folks. Montreal is the best city in Canada according to RMTransit! XD

@physh 11 месяцев назад

Truly mind-blowing how quickly they made this happen! In San Francisco, it took 6 years to build a lame BRT, and 10 years for 3 muni stations nobody uses because trains are too infrequent...

@maestroadam 11 месяцев назад

I agree when you say it makes the best city in Canada even better. Indeed!

@liamtahaney713 11 месяцев назад

I love Montreal, it's by far my favorite city in the US or Canada, and second favorite in North America to Mexico city. Super awesome to see real progress to make a great city even better.

@mrscary113 11 месяцев назад

What's happening in Mexico City?

@magnabaddelta-thriller5603 11 месяцев назад

Montreal is in Canada 🤦🏾‍♂️

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely great cities, and they both have rubber tire metros 😂

@cieludbjrg4706 11 месяцев назад

@@RMTransit Montreal does, because it was built by the Frrreench. Frrreench is, after all, the second language in Canada. :) Which is fun, go to «America» (yes, I know Canada is not USA), and touch up on your rusty French at the same time! :D

@liamtahaney713 11 месяцев назад

@@mrscary113 It's just an incredible place. Easier to visit than explain ;)

@ArmouredPhalanx 11 месяцев назад

As someone in a Canadian city that can't even get basic BRT implemented, I'm jealous. This looks fantastic, and I'm looking forward to trying it out on my next Montreal visit. Can't wait for the airport extension...

@JamesPhieffer 11 месяцев назад

Could be worse. You could be in Ottawa, where we had the negatives of building a train without any positives whatsoever.

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

Hope you enjoy it!

@es3359 11 месяцев назад

Are you in Victoria too? I’m hoping our BRT gets better soon…

@ArmouredPhalanx 11 месяцев назад

@@es3359 Opposite side of the country. Halifax. Our transit is stuck in the 90s - both in planning and implementation. There've been relatively modest plans for BRT for 5ish years, but the provincial government has refused to commit to funding. We don't even have electronic payment systems or ticket kiosks. Like I said... 90s.

@kaitlyn__L 11 месяцев назад

@@JamesPhieffer and the BRT was so good before the botched conversion. I rode it in 2012/13 and had no idea I was witnessing the last gasp of greatness.

@frafraplanner9277 11 месяцев назад

The REM is like a Japanese commuter rail line, the Keihin-Tohoku Line, or the Yamanote Line if it weren't orbital

@cooltwittertag 11 месяцев назад

Its a classic S-Bahn like in Berlin or Hamburg

@frafraplanner9277 11 месяцев назад

@@cooltwittertag That's probably the most accurate term to call it

@BrianBaileyedtech 11 месяцев назад

Yep - immediately reminds me of the Chiyoda Line / Joban Local Train Line that I used to commute on in Tokyo and its far northeast suburbs back in the 90's. It was an excellent system although at times unbelievably crowded. I am headed back to Japan in October and can't wait to use it again and see how its changed since my last visit in 2005.

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

@@cooltwittertagI don’t think I’d call it that, it doesn’t have a lot of the S Bahn features

@FreeManFreeThought 11 месяцев назад

@@RMTransit As I commented elsewhere, like the old car in my profile picture; I think that the old term Interurban is more appropriate. It's a higher speed, longer distance, transit system that is lighter than a commuter train and heavier than a streetcar. Watching you stumble over what to call it my partner probably thought I was having convulsions waving at the screen shouting 'interurban' XD

@DAG924 11 месяцев назад

Montreal has upgraded, giving me more reasons to move in. One day, hopefully!!

@noahwou6304 11 месяцев назад

As a Montrealer who recently moved to LA this desperately makes me want to move back

@ALuimes 7 месяцев назад

Can't have a forum like this without some Canadian expat to the US Sunbelt speaking up. As for moving back...please do!

@nokitch 11 месяцев назад

Great coverage! Was just in Montreal and thought the metro was awesome!

@JustinJamesJeep 11 месяцев назад

As a south western Ontarian i am tempted to drive all the way to montreal to enjoy a ride on the REM. (Yes its counter intuitive) i want REM to be beyond successful, to the point where every north american city follows suit.

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

You should! The more successful it is the better…

@dougbelanger7789 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the preview! I am heading down to Montreal on Sunday evening so I can ride the REM Monday morning from Brossard to Centrale and then back in the afternoon. Looking forward to that "new train smell" as you called it.

@imjody 11 месяцев назад

Those platforms with doors are awesome for multiple reasons. Awesome!

@issacma 11 месяцев назад

As a new immigrant from Hong Kong living in Toronto, I would like to see such a modern design transit project in Canada. I hope it could change the city's planning and design.

@skarya22 11 месяцев назад

Montréal is in Canada! Hopefully Toronto can learn from their french neighbours

@ergosteur 11 месяцев назад

Wow I remember going to Montréal in 2019 and the early construction starting, as a Torontonian knowing little about the project I was expecting to have to wait 10 years to see the results. This looks great, and will be really useful, with the future phases I can see my future trips to Montréal visiting family in the suburbs being almost car-free!

@pablovivant9089 11 месяцев назад

So informative, and so well filmed and narrated. Probably your very best video to date! Thanks.

@JohanKolev 11 месяцев назад

Bravo. I appreciate your Video!! As a Montrealer I love your positive review and can't Wait to get on that Metro!!!

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching! And the super-thanks! The REM is something special!

@BoredCapturer 11 месяцев назад

THAT explains the bridge construction I saw along the highway when I visited back in 2019!

@CathLaPoire 11 месяцев назад

well, we did need a new bridge to replace the one that was crumbling right beside it 😅

@BoredCapturer 11 месяцев назад

@@CathLaPoire lol

@amo_res9266 11 месяцев назад

This is VERY good compared to how bad Canada is in making projects like this. Here in Edmonton, this valley line LRT supposed to open at 2020, is still delayed, and it will possibly open at 2024

@abeekuworldchanger380 2 месяца назад

Yeah, but even still the Valley line compared to this or the Skytrain pales in comparison. I love that in Vancouver how effective the SkyTrain is. It runs above ground and underground. And it runs super frequently. Especially during non rush hour times too. Other than then nights. Translink is def one of the best in my opinion. I can see the REM in Montreal being good too. Its following a similar system to Vancouver's skytrain. But Edmonton..... My goodness.

@paulthomas281 10 месяцев назад

That this idea launched in 2016, construction started in 2018 and it is ALL finished for riders in 2023 is VERY VERY IMPRESSIVE. Bravo Canada! Bravo Montreal!

@giantSIGHT 11 месяцев назад

Some GREAT shots in this video. Well done 🎉

@idk-xj6wv 11 месяцев назад

Wow, good job Montreal. Cheers from Vancouver

@moho472 11 месяцев назад

I've been waiting for REM for so long! This, GO Expansion, and multiple transit projects throughout the country, makes me so hopeful of the future. It's no wonder the major Canadian cities have the most used transit systems in the continent.

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

Oh yeah! It’s an incredibly exciting time!

@Gabtube252 11 месяцев назад

YES, I was waiting for your video on this!

@cieludbjrg4706 11 месяцев назад

Now that I’ve seen the video, I’m bowled over! As for the glassed-in stations, from what I’ve learned about the climate in Montreal, it will be a very nice touch in the winter! :D

@traxxterz4243 11 месяцев назад

The train sets look like the new Grand Paris Express railcars !

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

Same model!

@dontjudgemebymyname.4282 11 месяцев назад

@@glaframb I mean this and Sydney metro are both made by same company and at same place in India.

@quarringtonz231 11 месяцев назад

oh my god we finally have an Asian quality metro here in NA, I love the door closing chime, it's like Taipei Metro

@COLTRANE2019 11 месяцев назад

Used the REM last saturday early in the morning and was very impressed. Congratulations to everyone who made this happen!

@philippecourtemanche1994 11 месяцев назад

It's finally here. And it's my hometown. I'm really glad we got what we got. Wishing for more.

@mngauthier 11 месяцев назад

Wow, the REM look awesome!!!. Makes Ottawas's toy train look really bad, It it sad that they didn't take the opportunity to make it truly world class. You should make a video explaining the latest set of issues with the O-Train, I am having trouble understanding what is going on by reading the media. Thanks for your videos!

@himbourbanist 11 месяцев назад

this system looks incredible. I wish we could have this here in the US

@metrofilmer8894 11 месяцев назад

We do. Honolulu just opened up its first phase and New York is getting Platform edge doors and fully walkthrough trains (alongside Atlanta). Plus LA is currently looking at a new Automated metro line as well

@michaelnascenzi6843 11 месяцев назад

Wow, this looks incredible. Well done Montreal!

@BlueBeefalo 11 месяцев назад

I live near a station and I absolutely can not wait for it to open later next year. It'll be a game changer when it comes to my commute.

@chickenpommes19 11 месяцев назад

The wood and light architecture of the outdoor stops gives it an almost scandinavian suburb feel. Leave the station and you're in Njøkjullholmssundborg office park.

@bossfight6125 11 месяцев назад

Two metro systems for Montreal? Man! This city is becoming Tokyo!

@Leojw10 11 месяцев назад

Nowhere near close to tokyo atm

@tasniah.6453 11 месяцев назад

Truly amazing! Bravo Montreal!!

@delibakerytravel 11 месяцев назад

Excellent video you do great work.I can't wait until the next time I am up in Montreal. Thanks For A Great Channel.

@cb2199 11 месяцев назад

Can Montreal train builders please help Ottawa fix our crap train. It's so embarrassing that they did everything from day one to get REM go smoothly

@TheTroyc1982 11 месяцев назад

going with low-floor vehicles on a grade separated system is what doomed Ottawa

@kaitlyn__L 11 месяцев назад

@@TheTroyc1982 changing regulations to allow lacklustre testing is what doomed it tbh. It was already delayed, so if they had to delay it little more to test it properly and fix issues people would've forgiven the delay for operating correctly once open. But it was both delayed AND faulty so everyone hates it.

@dewey3507 11 месяцев назад

Crazy how Japan already looks like this in the 1980s, we're finally slowly catching up!

@MW_Asura 11 месяцев назад

You still have a long way to even come close to catching up with Europe, let alone Japan

@christopherarchuleta3669 11 месяцев назад

Excited for this! Thanks for your content.

@brucemastorovich4478 11 месяцев назад

I'm visiting Montreal (and Toronto) in October. So excited to ride this!

@carolb5904 11 месяцев назад

As a Montrealer we all know how harsh our winters are and that concerns me. Like Toronto's subways that run above and below ground during winter the subway consistently stops and gets delayed.

@Christian_Martel 11 месяцев назад

I live in Brossard and we have seen the trains being tested for about a year now, through last winter. I’m quite confident.

@will78787 11 месяцев назад

@@Christian_Martel I live in Brossard and I just hope that I won’t be late for class at the end of August. My commute by rush hour RTL busses that went downtown was 30-40 minutes. Now it will take minimum 50 minutes, since NOT A SINGLE BUS LINES WILL GO TO MONTREAL from the south shore anymore. I’m very much not optimistic about the REM too, judging by the first week’s technical difficulties. Not to mention the price increase for students and 65+ seniors plus the inability to buy reduced fare tickets without going all the way to Bonaventure or Longueuil just to get a 2nd dedicated AB-ticket OPUS card. Not a single ARTM ticket booth in Brossard, La Prairie, St Hubert or Greenfield Park, where the AB-tickets are actually needed to get around. They made the new fare system to simplify the adding of the REM, but instead made it a nightmare. Oh yeah and I guess we hate our seniors in Brossard too now huh? Seniors who get the off-peak 65+ fare can’t go to Montreal anymore, with the removal of service of the 45 and 90.

@abelsuisse9671 11 месяцев назад

C'est magnifique, merci pour cette vidéo. J'ai hâte d'expérimenter la totalité du nouveau réseau REM lors de ma prochaine visite à Montréal, une de mes top 3 villes par ordre de préférence. C'est là d'ailleurs à Mont Royal que j'ai commencé à apprendre le ski de fond ! Un jour j'aimerais y habiter, et le fait qu'elle aura un système de transports en commun performant lui accorde encore plus de points

@brightondude9327 11 месяцев назад

Ooooooh! Looks lovely! I really agree with you about the announcements on the Liz line in London, I'm glad to see there's less of that with this new one in Montreal.

@EkainMunduate 11 месяцев назад

What a great project! I hope to ride it some day. Congratulations

@thefatcontrollershat 11 месяцев назад

I went on it today, lucky enough to be in Montreal this weekend (visiting from the UK). Love the views and it seems like a great service - well worth the hour of queues at Gare Centrale. Also I won an awesome commemorative hockey jersey to remember the day by.

@thefatcontrollershat 11 месяцев назад

@glaframb Yes that's right, I don't think I was the only one though

@Mereo110 11 месяцев назад

Crying in Ottawan. This is what Ottawa's system should've been.

@Danielnikoula 11 месяцев назад

Sick vid as always my man. Cant wait to ride this!

@edwinchen7729 11 месяцев назад

The trains look absolutely beautiful, wish the Vancouver skytrain was like that...

@chromebomb 11 месяцев назад

Canadians are lucky to have Vancouver and Montreal as options to live in

@Leojw10 11 месяцев назад

Toronto is more popular then both but all 3 biggest and best canadian citys I guess

@andymod 11 месяцев назад

I hope that Metrolinx will learn how to do projects from REM and Ontario Line in Toronto will be build not like Eglinton Crosstown. So cool for Montreal, it would be my first thing to try on a next visit :)

@dngriffiths8105 11 месяцев назад

Metrolinx is beyond redemption. As secretive as it is incompetent. A petty dictatorship. A standard bearer for the Ford government.

@juliandawe1672 11 месяцев назад

Great video - Its about time this train got running. Looking forward to seeing the other branches (tracks) up and running,.....

@Syllacrostics 11 месяцев назад

Going to check it out on Sunday, I'm excited!!

@u1zha 11 месяцев назад

Awesome bridge. Would like to cross in a driverless cab, absolutely!

@kaitlyn__L 11 месяцев назад

I'm very pleased to see that not just the stations but also the interior of the trains look so wheelchair accessible. A lot of accessible trains have a specific wheelchair zone, marked by a symbol on the door to tell you where to enter, and you can't really leave it due to grabrails or seating blocking the way. The walk-through carriage connectors are also often too narrow to permit a wheelchair. But in the REM, with all the standing room, I'm pretty sure my wheelchair would fit down the aisle and around the vertical grab rails, and even into another carriage. I also didn't spot any wheelchair symbols on the doors, indicating all of them can be used that way rather than just one. I shouldn't be surprised given it's a modern system, but unfortunately a lot of other modern systems take shortcuts in at least one of these aspects. A lot of planning expects that we'll be exceptions to accommodate only 1 or 2 of at a time, like most accessible buses where we fight with baby strollers for the spots. Which can cause problems if more than 2 wheelchair users want to use the same train. By comparison it looks like a REM carriage could easily accommodate 10, if it had to. Which means there hopefully shouldn't ever be space conflicts with buggies, bikes, etc! Especially with such frequent headways.

@dngriffiths8105 11 месяцев назад

Exactly. Any new transit must be fully accessible, and able to accommodate all users, whatever their mobility realities or constraints may be. There is zero excuse for doing anything less. This includes incorporating technology (as they have done with REM) to maximum advantage.

@teslantho 11 месяцев назад

Great video, sincerly! Personally I will use the REM daily basis when university starts again in September. I'm super excited, and I'll even try it tomorrow for the 2 days free trial just by curiosity.

@randallyons8745 11 месяцев назад

can't wait for my first ride, looking forward to seeing Montreal open up as you ride in over the bridge...

@zartex6458 11 месяцев назад

There are screen on the metro that show when the next busses will come to the station? That is actually amazing. It’s one of the things that heavily improves the integration of metro with the bus system. The REM is under some smart people. We dont have that in Dubai and it’s a pain unless u can pull up the transit app which is inconvenient cause it needs internet

@bahnspotterEU 11 месяцев назад

Regarding the classification of the system: With the trains already being green and white, I propose we classify the REM as the Montreal S-Bahn! It does fulfil the same role as the Berlin or Hamburg systems do in particular, just with even better frequency. It greatly resembles the Berlin S-Bahn in comparison with the metro too: Goes a bit faster, stops less and goes further out, while still being very much distinct from regular main-line rail services. A good day for Montreal, and I hope the following phases will be completed in a timely manner, especially to Deux-Montagnes and Anse a l'Orme. Thanks for this early insight!

@jeromedemersfr 11 месяцев назад

As a montrealer that lived in Germany for a while I couldn't agree more

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

It has some similarities but I would be hesitant to call it S Bahn

@ThisWontFly 11 месяцев назад

@@RMTransit That's because it's not yet a network: imagine REM de l'est having been built and actually integrated with Garce Centrale/Bonaventure-or going all out, having REM de l'est continue to Lucien-L'Allier in a tunnel and emerge there. I could pretty much see that being a pretty interesting S-Bahn network (in the Berlin sense of the term, as the infrastructure is incompatible with mainline rail operations)

@JonathonV 11 месяцев назад

Awesome! I’m visiting there next week (for the first time) so I suppose I won’t know Montréal without the REM!

@norma_mac 11 месяцев назад

Such a great video, I've watched it twice. Excited to ride!

@uniqueusernamehere 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for this wonderful video! I have been following this project for years and am so happy to be living here when it opens. I'm so stoked for the rest of it to open as well.

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

It’s a joy to make it! But now I’m very tired 😅

@bee1707 11 месяцев назад

I helped build REM

@jeffmacphee03 11 месяцев назад

I don't go to Montreal much, but I'll definitely be checking the REM out the next time I go. Great video Reese!

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

Thank you, it's absolutely worth it!

@otoojk 11 месяцев назад

An absolutely brilliant line. Well done to Montreal .

@Infinity-lc4eq 11 месяцев назад

What incredible timing!! I just landed in Canada for the first time in my life and this is the first notification that pops up!?! I'm going to be in Montreal in a few days, can't wait to give this new line a go! (Coming from Britain btw)

@mariannerichard1321 11 месяцев назад

Hopefully, as the sections of the REM continue to open, the interest for REM de l'est will rekindle and they will find the right setting to make the project works.

@Christian_Martel 11 месяцев назад

Honestly, I was quite irritated when the critics of REM de l’Est kind of killed the project. We’ll see.

@YanikCrepeau1 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for your excellent work.

@jamesbuchan416 11 месяцев назад

🎉 so looking forward to riding these ❤

@john15008 11 месяцев назад

As always, a fantastic video. Respectfully though, as an Anglophone who lived in Montreal, I don't think I ever heard another Anglophone refer to Île-des-Soeurs as "Nun's Island." Let's preserve place names in their original language.

@sneakingelephant 11 месяцев назад

REM being built so well and fast making the Eglinton line look embarrassing 😂

@dngriffiths8105 11 месяцев назад

That's what happens when Metrolinx is involved. They somehow manage to both cheap-out and go grossly over budget. That's a special kind of feat.

@brianistrying7771 11 месяцев назад

Ikr, they should have hired foreign contractors such as from Japan and Korea (who are advancing at rapid transit) to modernise their metro infrastructure just like Montreal did (the contractors are French, etc.). And what's even more hilarious is that Toronto subway has not expanded since 2002, while their city continues to grow due to immigration, causing more overcrowding. The fact that non of Toronto subway stations have platform screen doors including the ones under construction is an absolute joke

@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp 11 месяцев назад

Welcome Aboard! A Terrific job all of you... Bravo! .

@caribbb 11 месяцев назад

That was a really enjoyable video.. nice review. I’m going to try the REM tomorrow or Sunday..can’t wait! Oh btw, interesting you stayed in a hotel in Brossard. I never would have thought to suggest that to a tourist or business person coming to Montreal.. so already a new REM and new ideas. 😊

@freonflex 11 месяцев назад

I just rode the REM this afternoon for opening day and it is WOW! Love it!

@myonlydemandisbacktowork8759 11 месяцев назад

It looks so good!!!!! In big contrast I feel sorry for the design of Eglinton subway... sorry, tram 😢 We will know whether REM will resolve the transport problem of Montreal. It looks very capable and consider the harsh weather of Montreal, it's a huge achievement to finish everything within 5 years🎉

@andrewclarkson3401 11 месяцев назад

I am glad to see someone is following Vancouver's lead in automated metro, almost 40 years later. Now the bar is higher for the Ontario line.

@chaughten 11 месяцев назад

Amazing you had the train all to yourself, amazing video!

@christinecamley 11 месяцев назад

I am completely mind blown at how amazing this Metro is. The planning has clearly been completely comprehensive and I love that there is a laid back, modern feel. It was completed in a very quick time given the delays in transit systems in Canada. I very much want to travel to Montreal to be able to use the new Montreal REM while I visit family!! Outstanding video!! This was amazing to watch!! Huge thanks!! Cheers!! 🙂

@jasperli 11 месяцев назад

REM week is finally here 🥳🥳🥳

@RMTransit 11 месяцев назад

I’m so excited! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

@Infernus25 11 месяцев назад

Looks great, good on Montreal for making such a great line. Definitely seems like they took some metro principles from the Copenhagen line with its closed glass platforms doors and its automated system

@brendakazenel6325 11 месяцев назад

I love it and Montreal is my city I grew up in, I live in Toronto and work for Metrolinx Go transit but this is by far amazing thanks for the video Brenda.

@ashkumar9906 11 месяцев назад

As a Montréaler in Japan (who loves transit!), I'm so happy to see this video!

@funtomco.studios8106 11 месяцев назад

As a Texan hoping to change the way Texans commute, this system has given me a profound inspiration. I can almost picture in my head what a metro system like this one would look like in San Antonio, or my hometown of Houston (I know y'all are cringing at the thought of that lmao). However, I firmly believe that with the right people, the right system, and the power our generation will have, anything is possible.

@OdinWannaBe 11 месяцев назад

Question of time, people will get it.