I used the metro a lot when I was in Montreal last time. The first train you rode on is called the MR-73 built by Bombardier and has been in service for nearly 50 years. The second one at the end is called the Bombardier/Alstom MPM-10 (known as the Azur) and has the nicest subway interior car I’ve ever been on.
Lovely captured camera work and thanks again Ken ! .. and you doing such an amazing job ! .. appreciate your efforts and hard work for sharing your beautiful sharing adventure .. take care and stay safe my friend ! ..
I really enjoyed seeing both the old and new trains in the Montreal Metro. Also interesting to compare the Montreal Metro with the Toronto Subway. I agree the plastic seats are easier to keep clean. Sometimes I hate to sit on the stained cloth seats in Toronto. Thanks Ken
Hi Ken, awesome live video on the metro subway system I enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing. All your live videos are always enjoyable. Have a good night see you next video ❤😊
It is interesting how their trains seem to use normal rubber tires that roll along. It must be much quieter? That is cool to move from one location to another underground but must be a bit space and new place confusing, like any under underground point A to new point B place. I always learn something from every one of the videos you make Ken...TY
Hi ken whats up wow how I really miss canada after years of dreaming about canada now I'm planning to travel to japan in December I can't wait to ride the trains from shibuya to shinjuku and to ginza
Aw, man, they replaced the iconic white-capital-letter-destination-text-on-Metro-line-colour-background signs with just line colour dots since the last time I visited Montreal (2011). **EDIT:** Ah, some stations like St. Laurent and Peel still have the classic route terminus signage.
Ken, I enjoyed experiencing the Montreal Metro with you. From the video it seems the Montreal Metro appears cleaner and better maintained than the TTC...🇨🇦🚉
You got the old train , they are a flashback in time Now 😂. The Only Subway in MTL you by lunch at 😂. It’s a Rare Place where you take the Metro to a Subway
While I prefer Montréal, I see the positives in both. There is an openness and uniqueness of every station in Montreal whereas Toronto, for the most part has tighter, danker stations. While steel rails are smarter longer term for maintenance expenses and efficiency, the Montreal Metro is quieter. I think it's what you're used to. Some of Montréal's stations are true brutalist madterpieces of 60s, 70s and 80s. I have never seen a masterpiece station in Toronto though I do love the subway tile and Museum stop. Different vibes for different cities, that's a good thing.
Montreal's transit is so far ahead of Toronto's lol. Makes me sad and angry at the same time. The only thing I don't like is some Montreal trains (the older ones) didn't have AC, just blowing fans. As for Opus, I learned this year that you can also use it in Quebec City. And you can also load up an app onto your phone to reload the card (both there and in Montreal). No need to line up to use the kiosks anymore. I like Berri-UQAM station, I've been staying the last few years at a hotel during my trips down the block from it.
it's false , you have a transfert for an another mode of transportation in the same zone but if you exit the controled zone of a subway station you cannot come back in the subway with the same ticket. If you have a 2 trips pass , it's will take your second ticket
you cannot go on the same bus or Metro line with in those 2 hours or you will be charged a fair again. so you cann't take the green line and then in less then 2 hours go back on the green line you will be charged regular fair. same as buses. but you can take the bus to the metro then the metro to your destination and come back on a different metro line and bus. I can do that with the green and orange lines and different buses but I'm mostly gone for more then 2 hours.. you really need to plan your day if you are good with it. its easy
Why come to Montreal metro when you can go to New York. Now that’s an adventure. You see that they skip some stations. They go by color by Numbers and by shapes. Paris metro is also an adventure. Montreal metro is very elementary at best. So glad to be moving out of this crappy province!!!
You road the last vintage MR-63 Metro cars which are rare in the system. They date from 1968 and nearly all of them have been replaced with the AZUR cars. And you think rubber tires are noisier than steel on steel, wow.
Too bad you can't make it so that we can experience the burnt rubber smell from the tires of their Metro cars... 😁 I first rode the Montreal Metro in the summer of 1980, the same vacation when I also rode the TTC Subway for the first time. Sorry, but I've always preferred the "utilitarian" style of the TTC stations to the "fancy shmancy" artistic stations in Montreal. And prior to the "open gangway" cars arriving on the Yonge-University-Spadina line (I refuse to call it "Line 1", LOL!), I always preferred the TTC subway cars to the Montreal cars. But anyway, the differences make things interesting, I guess...
@@TheKenContinuum I agree, and the TTC got the job done even more so 40+ years ago, back when I visited Toronto the most often and never witnessed the sudden delays and the disruptive maintenance that you experience these days. I thought that the TTC scheduled their subway maintenance years ago during the overnight hours, when the trains weren’t running. Unless they didn’t do any maintenance at all during those years, and that’s what is causing the excessive problems today? I’m not sure…
I've been riding the Montreal metro for more than 30 years. I have never smelt any "burnt rubber smell" that you mention. Maybe it's time for you to see an ENT doctor to get your nose a thorough check-up. Parosmia or phantosmia could be a symptom of some serious underlying neurological or even oncological diseases.
@@flyingzone356I haven’t ridden the Montreal Metro in over 30 years, and haven’t smelled that since. But whenever I did ride between 1980 and the early 1990’s, I only smelled whatever that was in the Metro stations and nowhere else. Maybe it’s not burnt rubber, but it’s definitely unique to those stations and I never smelled that anywhere else! Unless it was a “new subway system smell” that lasted from 1966 until the early 1990’s? 😬
I'm Surprised that they take Longer Time for Boarding and Disembarking. As here in Toronto, Canada its Very Quick cause Trains need to Keep Moving Quickly.
Montréal Métro Train Original Métro : open on 14 october 1966. Retired : Canadian Vickers MR-63 3,6,9 cars long 2 Motrice and 1 Remorque X 1,2,3 = 3,6,9 cars for a total up too 152,4 meters or 500 ft. Only the original Aspirator Car are still in service at night when the metro is closed. Old : Bombardier MR-73 (Renovated) 3,6,9 cars long 2 Motrice and 1 Remorque X 1,2,3 = 3,6,9 cars for a total up too 152,4 meters or 500 ft. on the green line 1 , on the yellow line 4 or the blue Line 5. Rarely on the Orange Line 2 The Original MR-73 walls were burnt Orange the seat were orange and the sean were in a pink,orange, stripe tissus. Drawing in white of the city monument where drawn at both end of the Cabin Cars. Earth / Pastel vintage colors scheme that was popular in the 1970's but dated when they reach the end of the 1990's therefore the strange colors scheme of the 1990's MR-73R New : Bombardier-Alstom Azur MPM-10 9 cars longs theorically could be 5,6,7,8,9 cars long maximum 152,4 meters long (500 ft) max On the green Line 1 Angrignon-Honoré-Beaugrand, Orange line 2 Côte-Vertu - Montmorency , yellow Line 4 Berri-UQAM - Longueuil- Université-de-Sherbrooke On Grand-Prix Week-End and blue line 5 (Snowdon - St-Michel) (Eventually) when the line will be expend to Anjou in the 2030's
Really bad coverage, montreal’s urbanism is adapted to the city’s reality. Toronto with his 3 lines is a joke, as well as the look of the stations and the trains. This city needs to define it’s personality, it tries to be NY, Chicago, Montreal instead of developing it’s own identity.
This is not the usual trains . You are definitely from Toronto trying to make Montreal looks bad . Montreal subway is a masterpiece . The train shown at the end is the usual ones for the past 8 years . Mobile network has always been accessible in the smart city if Montreal . Toronto subway is old , slow , falling apart and cell phone network just arrived in 2024 . Montreal is the most cultural , architectural , historical ( 400 years ) thé must sustainable and greenest in North America . Unesco city of design , leader in AI , aerospace , medecine , engineering , arts , tech , pharmaceuticals , academic , UNited nations organizations . Toronto has no identity , no soul with pretentious people .
haha I shot this video in one continual take and got on the first train that came along. Where in this video am I trying to make Montreal look bad, did you even watch the whole thing or listen to anything I was saying? It's funny to me how you have to bash Toronto and it's citizens based on some imaginary slight against Montreal on my part.
Hé taboy, c’est donc ben gratuit ton commentaire. Le gars est juste tombé sur un vieux train. Reviens-en! Quelqu’un de malveillant aurait montrer une panne ou des sans-abris.
I used the metro a lot when I was in Montreal last time. The first train you rode on is called the MR-73 built by Bombardier and has been in service for nearly 50 years. The second one at the end is called the Bombardier/Alstom MPM-10 (known as the Azur) and has the nicest subway interior car I’ve ever been on.
haha I figured you'd know all the specs.
The Azur cars are kinda getting crusty and damaged already tho. Def not as nice now
Love the Montreal Metro Ken! Great video! Cheers!
Thanks, Christine!
@@TheKenContinuum YW!! 🙂
Lovely captured camera work and thanks again Ken ! .. and you doing such an amazing job ! .. appreciate your efforts and hard work for sharing your beautiful sharing adventure .. take care and stay safe my friend ! ..
My pleasure!
I really enjoyed seeing both the old and new trains in the Montreal Metro. Also interesting to compare the Montreal Metro with the Toronto Subway. I agree the plastic seats are easier to keep clean. Sometimes I hate to sit on the stained cloth seats in Toronto. Thanks Ken
You bet, thanks for watching!
Paris, Lyon, Mexico City have the same system...Alsthom + Bombardier under licence.
Hi Ken, awesome live video on the metro subway system I enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing. All your live videos are always enjoyable. Have a good night see you next video ❤😊
You bet, Michelle!
Hi Ken, there is a beautiful park just outside the station at Angrignon.
Too bad I missed that!
It is interesting how their trains seem to use normal rubber tires that roll along. It must be much quieter? That is cool to move from one location to another underground but must be a bit space and new place confusing, like any under underground point A to new point B place. I always learn something from every one of the videos you make Ken...TY
I'm just glad I got on the right train going in the right direction. haha
@@TheKenContinuum LOL
it's good you get to ride both old to the new trains ..maybe a next time
Next time!
Hi ken Awesome video!!!
Hey, thanks!
Thanks for sharing
My pleasure!
Did you know that, not one station is made alike ?
And they all have their own artistic expression.
That's awesome.
Hi ken whats up wow how I really miss canada after years of dreaming about canada now I'm planning to travel to japan in December I can't wait to ride the trains from shibuya to shinjuku and to ginza
Hey, wow, that will be awesome!
@TheKenContinuum yeah I'll not comparing to dundas square the canadian shibuya version I watched alot of your videos of dundas square
Aw, man, they replaced the iconic white-capital-letter-destination-text-on-Metro-line-colour-background signs with just line colour dots since the last time I visited Montreal (2011).
**EDIT:** Ah, some stations like St. Laurent and Peel still have the classic route terminus signage.
Ken, I enjoyed experiencing the Montreal Metro with you. From the video it seems the Montreal Metro appears cleaner and better maintained than the TTC...🇨🇦🚉
Thanks, Steve! It did seem that way based on this one ride.
You got the old train , they are a flashback in time Now 😂. The Only Subway in MTL you by lunch at 😂. It’s a Rare Place where you take the Metro to a Subway
Not sure I'd do a subway ride in Canada. In 2004-5, though I did take some rides.
that's weird, you took two lines and ended up both times on the old trains,lol i take the metro almost everyday and always get the new trains
I rode one of the new trains on the way back!
While I prefer Montréal, I see the positives in both. There is an openness and uniqueness of every station in Montreal whereas Toronto, for the most part has tighter, danker stations. While steel rails are smarter longer term for maintenance expenses and efficiency, the Montreal Metro is quieter. I think it's what you're used to. Some of Montréal's stations are true brutalist madterpieces of 60s, 70s and 80s. I have never seen a masterpiece station in Toronto though I do love the subway tile and Museum stop. Different vibes for different cities, that's a good thing.
Agreed, although it seemed to me that the rubber tires sounded louder.
@@TheKenContinuum was thinking of shrieking metal wheels on tighter turns. I've never heard that in Montréal's Metro. I have heard it in Toronto.
You sat in the old wagons, the new ones are better.
TTC used to have a whiste blowing to warn of the closing doors.
I would say orange line is busier than green.
Montreal's transit is so far ahead of Toronto's lol. Makes me sad and angry at the same time. The only thing I don't like is some Montreal trains (the older ones) didn't have AC, just blowing fans. As for Opus, I learned this year that you can also use it in Quebec City. And you can also load up an app onto your phone to reload the card (both there and in Montreal). No need to line up to use the kiosks anymore. I like Berri-UQAM station, I've been staying the last few years at a hotel during my trips down the block from it.
Toronto is building a lot more rapid transit than Montreal now though with several new lines under construction.
I have not been to Montreal in years
This was my first time.
@@TheKenContinuum nice city great vibe
For the next cities: in Newfoundland. and Nunavut
hah That would be cool.
3:32 Once you scan your card, it is valid for 2 hours. So you can take the metro as much as you want for 2 hours before you have to buy a new fare.
it's false , you have a transfert for an another mode of transportation in the same zone but if you exit the controled zone of a subway station you cannot come back in the subway with the same ticket. If you have a 2 trips pass , it's will take your second ticket
you cannot go on the same bus or Metro line with in those 2 hours or you will be charged a fair again. so you cann't take the green line and then in less then 2 hours go back on the green line you will be charged regular fair. same as buses. but you can take the bus to the metro then the metro to your destination and come back on a different metro line and bus. I can do that with the green and orange lines and different buses but I'm mostly gone for more then 2 hours.. you really need to plan your day if you are good with it. its easy
Sorry you got the old Metro at 7:33
haha I rode the new one back.
Why come to Montreal metro when you can go to New York. Now that’s an adventure. You see that they skip some stations. They go by color by Numbers and by shapes. Paris metro is also an adventure. Montreal metro is very elementary at best. So glad to be moving out of this crappy province!!!
I'd been to New York more than once before, this was my first time in Montreal.
A Canadian Rode A Metro
THE PHOTO IS OF THE ORIGINAL METRO THAT STARTED IN 1965 BUT OUR NEW SYSTEM HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A YEAR!!!
Yes I know, that's the first train that showed up.
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9 cars spanning 500 feet
You road the last vintage MR-63 Metro cars which are rare in the system. They date from 1968 and nearly all of them have been replaced with the AZUR cars. And you think rubber tires are noisier than steel on steel, wow.
They did sound noisier to me both outside & inside the train.
Those are MR-73’s put into service in 1976. The MR-63 have been retired since 2018
Too bad you can't make it so that we can experience the burnt rubber smell from the tires of their Metro cars... 😁 I first rode the Montreal Metro in the summer of 1980, the same vacation when I also rode the TTC Subway for the first time. Sorry, but I've always preferred the "utilitarian" style of the TTC stations to the "fancy shmancy" artistic stations in Montreal. And prior to the "open gangway" cars arriving on the Yonge-University-Spadina line (I refuse to call it "Line 1", LOL!), I always preferred the TTC subway cars to the Montreal cars. But anyway, the differences make things interesting, I guess...
I don't mind the more plain aesthetic of the Toronto Subway, it's an older system that gets the job done.
@@TheKenContinuum I agree, and the TTC got the job done even more so 40+ years ago, back when I visited Toronto the most often and never witnessed the sudden delays and the disruptive maintenance that you experience these days. I thought that the TTC scheduled their subway maintenance years ago during the overnight hours, when the trains weren’t running. Unless they didn’t do any maintenance at all during those years, and that’s what is causing the excessive problems today? I’m not sure…
I've been riding the Montreal metro for more than 30 years. I have never smelt any "burnt rubber smell" that you mention. Maybe it's time for you to see an ENT doctor to get your nose a thorough check-up. Parosmia or phantosmia could be a symptom of some serious underlying neurological or even oncological diseases.
@@flyingzone356I haven’t ridden the Montreal Metro in over 30 years, and haven’t smelled that since. But whenever I did ride between 1980 and the early 1990’s, I only smelled whatever that was in the Metro stations and nowhere else. Maybe it’s not burnt rubber, but it’s definitely unique to those stations and I never smelled that anywhere else! Unless it was a “new subway system smell” that lasted from 1966 until the early 1990’s? 😬
@@MartyGlenn72It's ozone that you are detecting.
I'm Surprised that they take Longer Time for Boarding and Disembarking. As here in Toronto, Canada its Very Quick cause Trains need to Keep Moving Quickly.
Toronto's is for go , Montreal's is for show .
He doesn't have to try to make montreal bad it bad
Next time get off at McGill and wander through the underground city.
Hey Ken, too much salt in the sea..., hey?
MONTREAL METRO IS NIE LEAN PLEASE SAY SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT MONTREAL
I liked the city & the Metro? haha
Montréal Métro Train
Original Métro : open on 14 october 1966.
Retired : Canadian Vickers MR-63 3,6,9 cars long 2 Motrice and 1 Remorque X 1,2,3 = 3,6,9 cars for a total up too 152,4 meters or 500 ft.
Only the original Aspirator Car are still in service at night when the metro is closed.
Old : Bombardier MR-73 (Renovated) 3,6,9 cars long 2 Motrice and 1 Remorque X 1,2,3 = 3,6,9 cars for a total up too 152,4 meters or 500 ft. on the green line 1 , on the yellow line 4 or the blue Line 5. Rarely on the Orange Line 2
The Original MR-73 walls were burnt Orange the seat were orange and the sean were in a pink,orange, stripe tissus. Drawing in white of the city monument where drawn at both end of the Cabin Cars. Earth / Pastel vintage colors scheme that was popular in the 1970's but dated when they reach the end of the 1990's therefore the strange colors scheme of the 1990's MR-73R
New : Bombardier-Alstom Azur MPM-10 9 cars longs theorically could be 5,6,7,8,9 cars long maximum 152,4 meters long (500 ft) max
On the green Line 1 Angrignon-Honoré-Beaugrand, Orange line 2 Côte-Vertu - Montmorency , yellow Line 4 Berri-UQAM - Longueuil- Université-de-Sherbrooke On Grand-Prix Week-End and blue line 5 (Snowdon - St-Michel) (Eventually) when the line will be expend to Anjou in the 2030's
Thanks for the info!
Really bad coverage, montreal’s urbanism is adapted to the city’s reality. Toronto with his 3 lines is a joke, as well as the look of the stations and the trains. This city needs to define it’s personality, it tries to be NY, Chicago, Montreal instead of developing it’s own identity.
This is not the usual trains . You are definitely from Toronto trying to make Montreal looks bad . Montreal subway is a masterpiece . The train shown at the end is the usual ones for the past 8 years . Mobile network has always been accessible in the smart city if Montreal . Toronto subway is old , slow , falling apart and cell phone network just arrived in 2024 . Montreal is the most cultural , architectural , historical ( 400 years ) thé must sustainable and greenest in North America . Unesco city of design , leader in AI , aerospace , medecine , engineering , arts , tech , pharmaceuticals , academic , UNited nations organizations . Toronto has no identity , no soul with pretentious people .
haha I shot this video in one continual take and got on the first train that came along. Where in this video am I trying to make Montreal look bad, did you even watch the whole thing or listen to anything I was saying? It's funny to me how you have to bash Toronto and it's citizens based on some imaginary slight against Montreal on my part.
Did someone from Toronto kill your dog?
Hé taboy, c’est donc ben gratuit ton commentaire. Le gars est juste tombé sur un vieux train. Reviens-en! Quelqu’un de malveillant aurait montrer une panne ou des sans-abris.
Not true. Montreal subway is very dark, unsafe, unclean and filled with homeless people and crime. Toronto is the complete opposite of it.
The usual Quebec bashing .
boring to watch 🤷♂️🤦
It's just a ride on the Metro...
As a Torontonian, Montreal’s subway system is horrible, creepy, dark and outdated….Toronto’s is way better, cleaner and safer
Enjoying your Montréal videos, Ken!👌🏼 Not sure if you already know the following: The RESO's trains are the same as in Paris. Quiet wheels🛞
Thanks, & yes I had heard that about the wheels.