The World's Newest Metro is Here! | Montreal REM
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
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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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question, why was it so empty when you were riding the trains?
@@yourlocalskoda4860 Because he rode before the opening. He said that at the beginning of the video...
Good job Reece I wish I could smell that new train with you!
Can you make a small video about the water metro from india, kochi
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.
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.
It’s amazing how fast they move!
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!
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
@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.
@@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…
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
Its inaugurated but only in Quebec which is already sooo different than any provinces.
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. 🙄🤦🏼♂️
Yes! It’s a fantastic project and an exciting time for Canada!
@@JamesPhieffer Finch lrt will run before Eglinton in Toronto just watch
@@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?
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.
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.
Absolutely concur! The accessibility improvements are huge!
@@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…
@@RMTransit Highlights the lack of foresight with the metro.
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.
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)
Absolutely, things are getting so much better!
Don't forget the Regional Connector in Los Angeles. (Not a new line per se but improves connectivity on basically the whole system.)
Hawaii isn’t in the Continental US, but it’s still part of the US.
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.
It’s really impressive, especially given the stations are quite nice!
Eglinton line will never finish
The Eglinton Line's progress? What progress? What are you on?
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.
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...
Could be worse. You could be in Ottawa, where we had the negatives of building a train without any positives whatsoever.
Hope you enjoy it!
Are you in Victoria too? I’m hoping our BRT gets better soon…
@@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.
@@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.
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...
Montreal and Quebec please teach Ontario how to build transit in a reasonably short time frame. You're our only hope.
Bro, they only built 4 stations. Theres still 20 stations, the main ones under construction.
@@monsterincrement Still, 4 stations only 7 years after the project was announced is really good
And please teach the US as well!
@@monsterincrement phase 2 should open by end of 2024 , around 18 stations.
Exciting to see the new transit that Montreal is cooking up. Hopefully the rest of the country can also continue to improve themselves!
Absolutely, this is a model!
Toronto is working on expanding it's lines as well.
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.
@@ianmackie8959 Yes, now we need a REM to go from Boucherville across the south shore to Ste Catherine.
@@ianmackie8959 Vancouver is beautiful!
I agree when you say it makes the best city in Canada even better. Indeed!
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.
THAT explains the bridge construction I saw along the highway when I visited back in 2019!
well, we did need a new bridge to replace the one that was crumbling right beside it 😅
@@CathLaPoire lol
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.
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.
Shock and awe! Announce and build transit before NIMBYs even know what hit 'em
@@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.
I think that’s a very very good point
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.
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.
Thank you! It’s going to open up a ton more of the city!
You heard it here folks. Montreal is the best city in Canada according to RMTransit! XD
It's finally here. And it's my hometown. I'm really glad we got what we got. Wishing for more.
Such a great project and system with impressive and thoughtful designs. Way to go REM and Montreal, hope this can be a blueprint for future transit development across Canada!
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
Toronto is far from flat. I assume you only stayed in Downtown.
@@TheTroyc1982 only stayed in the core yes, might have some hills on the outskirts, but nothing like Mont Real
@@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
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
@@Leojw10that's only your opinion
What a lovely looking system! It makes me want to go to Montreal!
The montreal metro has been there for 60 years and was already the best metro in North America
It’s worth visiting!
@@RMTransit I hope the same ability to implement things quickly will now be used to get the Amtrak lines to Montreal running.
Great coverage! Was just in Montreal and thought the metro was awesome!
Great video! Congrats to Montreal for expanding Public Transport.
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!!
The stations remind me of IKEA furniture: functional, pretty, modern-feeling and wooden
They had signs but with a different design that the rest of the network
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.
its will for SURE be used, its the perfect line.
I hope the REM overhead wire system works in freezing rain conditions. The LRT in Ottawa is a total disaster.
@@karenjones6135 its will face problem, it's normal, but it was already tested heavily for winter.
@@karenjones6135 They did test it last winter (but with no passengers). I hope we will not have the problems they've had in Ottawa!
So informative, and so well filmed and narrated. Probably your very best video to date! Thanks.
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.
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
REM week is finally here 🥳🥳🥳
I’m so excited! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Bravo. I appreciate your Video!! As a Montrealer I love your positive review and can't Wait to get on that Metro!!!
Thank you for watching! And the super-thanks! The REM is something special!
Crazy how Japan already looks like this in the 1980s, we're finally slowly catching up!
You still have a long way to even come close to catching up with Europe, let alone Japan
This really explains the REM system well, with how it's laid out, the trains, stops, and design. Hopefully it will open up Montreal even more so people can get around without a car. Now if you can just convince Geoff Marshall to come over and see it, maybe in tandem with Toronto's metro, that would be superb.
That would be very special 😅
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.
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.
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.
Don't diss my Brutalist architecture of the Metro. I'll get offended to that. I ❤ brutalism
Tbh Montreal does brutalist really well compared to other cities
I'm just watching videos about metros in other countries while feeling jealous. I'd kill to live in a city with at least one metro line
REM being built so well and fast making the Eglinton line look embarrassing 😂
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.
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
Congrats Montreal on opening the first phase of REM, can't wait to ride these Metropolis trains on Toulouse Metro line 3 in few years!
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
going with low-floor vehicles on a grade separated system is what doomed Ottawa
@@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.
Man I would love some kind of alternative way to get in and out of Lachine other than busses
The REM is like a Japanese commuter rail line, the Keihin-Tohoku Line, or the Yamanote Line if it weren't orbital
Its a classic S-Bahn like in Berlin or Hamburg
@@cooltwittertag That's probably the most accurate term to call it
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.
@@cooltwittertagI don’t think I’d call it that, it doesn’t have a lot of the S Bahn features
@@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
Europeans always just do a good job with this sort of thing. And Quebec is the most European place in NA
Its in the culture for sure.
The REM is inspired by the Vancouver Skytrain, has nothing to do with Europe.
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.
What's happening in Mexico City?
Montreal is in Canada 🤦🏾♂️
Absolutely great cities, and they both have rubber tire metros 😂
@@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
@@mrscary113 It's just an incredible place. Easier to visit than explain ;)
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.
You should! The more successful it is the better…
Awesome! Makes the Ottawa LRT look like an Amish buggy ride ..except Amish buggies don't break down.
Man, being from Calgary seeing projects like this get built, I really hope that at some point we get, maybe not something exactly like the REM, but just some improvements on existing transit corridors, the green line up and running and just be a little more ambitious with our transit planning rather than planning fifty million different MAX BRT lines that don't understand the meaning of the word "rapid"
I like the clear inspiration from Paris in things like the wayfinding (although it’s still less characterful than the Parisian system of giving a name to each station concourse), you can really tell Quebec is much less reluctant than the rest of NA to look at Europe (and maybe specifically France) for inspiration.
Although given what the Honolulu system is like, I suppose I’m being unfair to Hawaii with this.
For sure, though it’s also very distinctly it’s own thing
The only time I used a driverless train was at Frankfurt Airport and I think it's the only one here in Gemany. It was an interesting experience.
As a Montrealer who recently moved to LA this desperately makes me want to move back
Can't have a forum like this without some Canadian expat to the US Sunbelt speaking up.
As for moving back...please do!
My only complaints for the REM are:
1. Announcements might be nicer if they were more lively.
2. I wish the propulsion of the trains was louder so we could hear it in all its glory!
Crying in Ottawan. This is what Ottawa's system should've been.
I can’t wait for the REM to Expand and get more proposals in the future it Great this can’t be wasted
I helped build REM
REM phase 1 was this close to opening before HART phase 1 lmao. Montreal looks to be getting an absolutely fantastic system!
that's impressive! Do you think Canada is starting to get an industry ready to build transit in US? it could lead to a huge and profitable economy if you start geting the knowledge and experience.
Bravo aux équipes de Montreal !
It's already that way... companies like Bombardier, Ellis Don and Aecon are building transit projects across the globe.
Not really.
For one there's plenty of work to do in Canada but the organizations doing the work are international companies that come from inside and outside Canada you've got Spanish, French, South Korean and Canadian companies all part of the REM project, the broadway subway in Vancouver was also a Spanish contractor.
The biggest difference between what the US and Canada can do isn't on the level of accessing contractors who can do the work so much as having levels of government and/or governmental organizations ( Translink/Toronto Transit Commission/etc ) that have the planning capacity and funding to conceive of projects and put them into action. In this case it all got rolling because of a Provincial Premier coming to an agreement with a public pension fund to finance the project. Sorry to say but it seems hard to imagine that sort of action happening from a State Governor, not the least which because US states have relatively anemic capacities to do things next to Canadian Provinces ( which run education and healthcare and play a heavy role in transit ).
A great way to see this is to compare Vancouver's planning documents to Seattle, both are areas that have seen a ton of growth in recent years, face geographical constraints and really really stupid housing. Seattle has a 20 year transit master plan with 2 high capacity grade separated projects proposed. Vancouver has 1 such project under construction ( Broadway-Arbutus Skytrain extension ), another in the bidding process ( Langley Skytrain extension ) and another in the public consultation phase ( Broadway-UBC Skytrain extension ). When you look at the planning level there's a veritable web of proposed projects in the 152 page document ( albeit some are essentially duplicates, representing different alignments of projects represented elsewhere on the map ). I think you can understand a fair chunk of why when you see that Seattle's plan represents a mayor's vision where the Vancouver-Translink plan represents the negotiated vision of a number of municipalities in coordination with the province.
In some areas/industries the industrial capacity absolutely needs to be built up to make these things possible I'm not really convinced that's the issue with public transit, I think it's government planning capacity where things fall short and for all of talking up Vancouver here that's an issue that we also have in Vancouver ( see approval times for new housing development ).
I think the issue is really a political one, not a capabilities one!
The lead of the consortium is SNC-Lavalin ehich is Canadian, AECON, Pomerleau, EBC are also canadian. The tracks are built by PNR Montreal workers. Structures are designed by canadians and americans. The only real areas where we lacked the expertise was with the TBM and the launching girders. But it would be foolish to think this was the work of others, it is truly an international project.
OCS were built and designed by Engie and Equans but truely Mass Electric also has that expertise.
What matters are the people, but people bring the expertise with them and often change companies.
I live on the north shore and i cant wait for it to open. It will be awesome
Been working on the REM since 2018 and enjoyed (almost) every minute 😅
Hi, the project is so cool. What was your job in the project ? Urbanist or Engineer, something like that?
A great example for future systems, such as the IBX line in NYC.
You know that Toronto will purposely ignore anything good from Montréal including those clear signs, TO preferring to have riders wandering around lost for hours!
This looks so dope & kind of unique lookin' it would be nice if Toronto had this.
The Ontario line will be pretty much the same as the REM
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
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.
What does not make sense is they removed the line bus that usually gets you from the south shore to the island. So, a lot of people will now have to travel longer distances to get to the train. It would make sense if there was lots of tracks going everywhere, which is the total opposite of what we have now. You basically go from point A to point B, and I guess you find a real metro line or bus line to make the rest of the trip.
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.
Oh yeah! It’s an incredibly exciting time!
Great looking system. Puts Ottawa's entire LRT project to absolute shame. Looking forward to my next visit to Montreal to give it a go.
This is really impressive, even from a central European perspective. Thinking about how much time we waste here in Germany just because NIMBYS start some absurd lawsuits again, this makes me pretty envious. Also the way our projects are designed... Too grand, too costly. Stuttgart 21 is the perfect example of a project good in principle, but terrible in its execution. The Montreal REM is simple but effective. The way it should be.
I don't think that too grand or too costly is the problem when you take Grand Paris Express as an exemple ; 42 billion euros and quite on schedule
@@carthkaras6449Well 42 billion for 200km of urban rail is avtually not that costly…
Stuttgart 21 would have been a great project if it was a station expansion and not a station replacement
@@d1234as yep
@@carthkaras6449 yes, but it is not what I am talking about. In Germany we waste billions on projects that are grand but useless. That's the problem. We invest 10 billion Euros to replace a 16 track terminus station with an 8 track throughrunning station. Having a throughrunning station is great, but 20 years ago they thought it would be a great idea to close the old station and to give the new station the most expensive architecture you can think of (and no, the architecture is not worth it)
BarbieHammer might be a thing elsewhere. But Imma gonna do "REMHammer": get in an early ride as possible tomorrow, then head for Oppenheimer at the Forum at noon.
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!
It's too bad that they destroyed the express bus system for this. They'll even remove the reserved bus lane on the bridge to make sure everyone is forced to use the REM. For many users, this means less ability to work during transit, and 15-25 additional minutes because the stations are further away from their work.
Montreal has upgraded, giving me more reasons to move in. One day, hopefully!!
Absolutely amazing project. Puts BART to shame.
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
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. 😊
To say I’m giddy about the REM is an understatement. I can’t believe we’re finally here! Great video Reece!
Thank you! Big week!
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.
Terrific video Reese. We always enjoy your content.
Bravo Montreal! Your REM system looks wonderful. Sadly we cannot say the same in the Nations Capital, Ottawa.
Our previous City Council opted for Alstom's (one of a kind, never tested) Citadis Spirit trams. A mismatch of train and tram parts assembled to meet Ottawa's harsh winters. Or so we were led to believe... What an utter disaster and national embarrassment. The "Watson Wagon" wheels fell off almost immediately and continue to to this very moment. The tram is down and out of commission regularly. It's noisy, slow, unsafe, unreliable and dangerous in its current state.
Ottawa should have gone with tried, tested and reliable trains like Montreal's Alstom Metropolis. A beautiful autonomous train with station screen doors. A must for safety and our northern climate.
Not surprisingly Ottawa got what it paid for. Now the taxpayers will foot the bill for decades to come.
Can't wait to ride the new REM in Montreal. Well done.
RM perhaps when you have time you can do a video on how Ottawa got it so wrong and how maybe one day we can get it right.
The train sets look like the new Grand Paris Express railcars !
Same model!
@@glaframb I mean this and Sydney metro are both made by same company and at same place in India.
Congratulations to Montreal for actually opening a new public transportation line. Unlike our city here in Toronto. Everyone knows what I am talking about.
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!
As a montrealer that lived in Germany for a while I couldn't agree more
It has some similarities but I would be hesitant to call it S Bahn
@@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)
I hope you make a video on the new tel aviv underground rail system that's supposed to open in a week or two, I'd say that counts as a metro so this will be the world's newest metro for less than two weeks
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.
Hopefully we can fly out some transit agency executives and politicians to show them the REM so we can get somewhere positive for transit on this continent
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.
Montréal is in Canada! Hopefully Toronto can learn from their french neighbours
These metros and trains are exactly same sound and doors as the Qatar Rail too!
Canadians are lucky to have Vancouver and Montreal as options to live in
Toronto is more popular then both but all 3 biggest and best canadian citys I guess
Fantastic work as always Reece! As a Vancouverite I'm super jealous of Montreal's transit development and future as well as it's inter-connectedness between lines at multiple destinations running N-S and E-W. I wish we used more of the land south of the Fraser and out in the valley to plan larger transit hubs more in the style that Montreal is developing like you mentioned vs the current super-tall, super-pricey developments we have now. While Translink is only planning on building the Skytrain network as far east as Langley City, it would be really cool to imagine a line of stations leading from King George to Abbotsford basically just following Fraser Hwy with a stop at the airport and more low to mid-rise focused walk-able neighbourhoods around each station. Since it's mostly farmland it wouldn't displace too many people to develop a corridor along that route hell they can even built it at grade for the most part once they get through Langley. A true dream come true would be if they also built a line up 200th St from Langley, over the Golden Ears Bridge and into Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows then travel along Lougheed Hwy to Coquitlam Centre to meet the Evergreen Line turning the whole network into a big figure eight with a tail on each end. I guess for now one can simply dream or just pack up a U-Haul and move to Montreal. Edit - Immediately after clicking off of this video I see that you just posted a "What you would build" vid 3 days ago lol. Gotta watch it now and see how our ideas matched up
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!
Eglinton is still under construction
I always have to stifle a laugh when someone essentially equates Toronto to the whole of Canada
Time to visit Montreal, you say?
Two metro systems for Montreal? Man! This city is becoming Tokyo!
Nowhere near close to tokyo atm
Panamá mentioned 🎉
Very nice system. Looks very futuristic.
oh my god we finally have an Asian quality metro here in NA, I love the door closing chime, it's like Taipei Metro
REM reminds me of the Aeromóvel in Porto Alegre (and I think Indonesia).
Would be cool if a video was made speaking more about it
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 :)
Metrolinx is beyond redemption. As secretive as it is incompetent. A petty dictatorship. A standard bearer for the Ford government.
I plan to head up here in October. Was curious when this would begin
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.
Question of time, people will get it.
So cool to meet you, sorry if I was a bit chatty and annoying lmao I was, happy.
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.
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.
Between Honolulu's Skyline, L.A.'s Regional Connector, and now the REM in Montreal, 2023 looks to be quite a year in transformative rapid transit!
Jakarta’s LRT has also just opened. Automated trains, elevated guideway, and a much longer service length than the current REM. All for 1Rp as an introductory offer. Virtually no coverage by English language RUclipsrs, but good coverage in the Indonesian language.
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
Yet another reason why I wished that I lived in montreal.
Montreal REM - announced 2016, trains running - 2023
Ottawa LRT - announced 2012/2013, trains running - 2019
Toronto Eglinton LRT / Streetcar - announced - nobody remembers, trains will run - nobody knows!
To be honest o train isn’t running right now
@@TheRandCrews oh, they shut down after the derailment!