tonight, the stm is extending service on three metro lines for nye! ce soir, la stm prolonge le service sur trois lignes de métro pour la veille du nouvel an! #montreal #stminfo

“By reading this plaque, you have made a valuable addition to the number of people who have read this plaque” … an important heritage moment on the streets of Toronto (by artist Sarah Lazarovic).

i took montreal’s pie-ix brt this afternoon, and the amount of time spent by buses at red lights is absurdly long.

did you know that the ttc sometimes operates a special bus line in toronto that crosses active runways at billy bishop airport? it only runs when the winter ferry to toronto islands is out of service. #takethettc 👇 check out this cool youtube video of the ride. youtu.be/-c6VyX_O1-Q?...

the frequency of montreal’s night bus network isn’t as good as toronto’s network, but its coverage and frequency is far superior to vancouver’s network.

At least in Montreal we run the weekend schedule on holidays, but for New Year we extend the service until 3:20am (at that point tbh why not keep it open all night, but it’s better than otherwise)

Loon at the Redpath museum wishes you a loonie Christmas!

Stop making fun of me

Just realized that the 50km end to end travel time of the Montreal REM is the same as the 10km end to end travel time of Toronto's Finch W Tramway (55 min).

you can now see your yearly stats in @transit.app!

the snowplows are at work tonight in montreal.

I should record a video at a CTA (Chicago) station in an expressway and compare noise to this REM station that has platform screen doors #REMMTL

this one minute video sums up today's opening of toronto's newest light rail, line 6. this is so, so infuriating. ~50 min to go 10 km; ~30 min to go 5km. in this case, the cross street is a minor road, yet the train is still held up for a minute for left turns

congrats to toronto for opening their new $3.7-billion streetcar line!

Line 6 not even an hour into service and: "Delays westbound Finch West while we deal with an operational problem" 💀💀😭😭😭

This is an incredibly positive story re: housing density in Banff. Personally I don’t think we could ever build enough “gentle density” to make Banff affordable, but still a positive step youtu.be/CstPL88iEnw?...

Yesterday, Turin's tram line 3 finally returned to its original terminus at Hermada, after bidirectional rolling stock from other lines was redeployed on line 3 The temporarily abandoned RoW was used as a linear park that featured on bloomberg a few years ago: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

the rem was packed this evening. build fast and frequent transit, and people will use it.

"In 2026, [...] the ARTM also plans to begin testing for a feature that would allow riders to pay by credit card when hopping on a bus, train or Metro." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In case anyone needed a better visual to show why the bus lane is "empty" and the car lane is "filled". It's pretty simple. Cars are realllyyyy bad at moving large amounts of people. They're definitely great for specific uses! But to rely on them for every single trip is where we have failed.

le germain montréal 2020 → 2025 this is possibly my favourite mural in montreal. what used to be a very average building is now one of the most memorable ones in the area. 📷 google maps / @emmacardinal.com

Snowy Streetcars ❄️🚊

i present to you, the potato chips bus shelter.

for funsies, here's a modern city logo i love! a quick search tells me the shapes are meant to look like the letters VM (ville de montréal). this says nothing about the city — it's just a jumping-off point for a unique, versatile, memorable icon representing "montréal" in the broadest sense

this is how you get people to ride transit.

Whoever designed this never had to lock a bike … 🫠

Je travaille sur la rue Atateken, où une nouvelle piste cyclable — DÉTOUR — s’installe. D’entendre qu’on tente de démanteler déjà cette piste, c’est frustrant en tabarnak. Le nimbyisme dans un quartier aussi central et diverse que le Village, ça ne passe pas. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/g...

setpa, philadelphia's suburban rail agency, wants to acquire 20 comet 700 train cars from exo. these cars were retired in 2022. www.pa.gov/governor/new...

deux-montagnes 2015 → 2024 the urban transformation near the new grand-moulin rem station is fascinating. for example, most of the single family housing on a stretch of 9e ave has been demolished to build denser housing. this is 30 min from downtown #montreal by rapid transit. 📷 google maps/earth

The only thing kind of different about the CDPQ is that they’ll invite transit nerds and social media accounts to the openings alongside traditional media. I don’t think all agencies do that. Last time that meant riding the train a day before the public. This time it was maybe an hour before.

mil outremont 2005 → 2024 here's a train yard in #montreal that is being turned into a new neighbourhood. it's less than 10 minutes away from a metro station. there's a university pavilion, housing, a grocery store, a sponge park, and soon an elementary school... 📷 google earth

THIS JUST IN: 1 dead, 2 in critical condition after REM train collision on Montreal's South Shore The incident occurred after "an intrusion onto the tracks." Wow. Highly unusual for someone to be killed on an elevated fixed guideway track. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Oop Dec 7 opening date apparently

une voie partagée n’est pas une piste cyclable. c’est une voie où les cyclistes se font klaxonner par les automobilistes.

did you know that there are still visible signs that montreal once had a tram network? you can still see old tracks around the city sometimes, like on de bleury between sainte-catherine and rené-lévesque.

one of the two launching gantries used to build the rem is now in british columbia for the surrey langley skytrain. 📷 davislive on r/surreybc www.reddit.com/r/SurreyBC/c...

j’ai hâte de voir à quoi ressemblera ce nouveau quartier dans quelques années. à quelques km de là, le solar uniquartier, bien qu’imparfait, permet à des milliers de personnes d’habiter juste à côté du rem. lorsqu’il sera complété, + de 6000 habitants seront à moins de 20 minutes de montréal.

this evacuation plan is so satisfying.

there was a lot of opposition when the bike lane you see in this clip was built in 2020. today, the rev st-denis is a success story. the commercial vacancy rate decreased, and the bike lane is so popular that there’s bike traffic.

i put together a few clips from the rem open house, enjoy! youtu.be/ohXib72hYzc

the new rem branch is now visible on google maps.

i just learned on @agoramtl.com that you can't do a metro-rem-metro trip with one fare. wtf?!?

the new rem extension in montreal is so efficient that google maps recommends taking transit instead of driving. #remmtl

From some rails fans to others! See you on the REM! @milesintransit.com @railfans.ca @remgrandmtl.bsky.social

since REM opened this weekend, this is all i can think about. toronto has been building a smaller, 'lower-order' transit project that costs significantly more and is taking twice as long to complete 🫠

Today I checked out the newly opened underpass portion of Eglinton West Station (soon to be Cedarvale)! A thread 🧵/1

a few pictures from the second day of celebrations for the extension of the rem. cdpq infra built 50 km of rapid transit in less than 8 years and at a cost of 128 million dollars per km. and there’s more to come!

there’s also a big crowd at mcgill, but it looks like there isn’t much wait to get in a train. #remmtl

deux-montagnes is quite busy right now, there’s a 20 minute line to get in the station. #remmtl