One of the storage / maintenance centres is being built at the intersection of autoroute 10 and autoroute 30. You can see it being built here. There is another one in Deux-Montagnes. This one is almost completed (picture here). It is more advanced because it was meant to be an Exo train...

The "Tramway de l'Est" (which could be a LRT or REM, we don't know yet) and the diagonal pink line are two separate projects. It's the western branch of the pink line that they decided to merge with the Tramway de l'Est. The city of Montreal is conducting separate studies to determine if the...

Population density is much higher in the eastern half of the island

Quebec City System length : 23km Number of stations : 35 One station every 660m Eglinton Crosstown LRT System length : 19km Number of stations : 25 One station every 760m The difference in station spacing doesn't look dramatic to me. So you'd call the Eglinton Crosstown LRT a streetcar?

Actually, Quebec City is building a LRT, not a streetcar (although sometimes the difference between the two can be unclear). The Quebec City project is similar to the Eglinton Crosstown LRT ; it will not mix with traffic, except possibly for a short stretch on René-Levesque west of Cartier...

They need to update the costs. And to assess the impacts of Bois-Franc being a transfer station with the REM. Good new is that the new minister responsible for the region of Montreal, Chantal Rouleau, is not the type to study things eternally. She seems the type that gets things done. Well...

No the agreement doesn't prevent the Orange line extension to Bois-Franc, for which, incidentally, the Quebec government has asked the ARTM to accelerate the studies.

Fares are determined by the ARTM, not the CDPQ infra / REM. The Quebec government will pick up the tab for the difference between what's collected with the fares and the expected return on investment.

The REM will replace hundreds of buses that go from downtown to île-des-Soeurs (nun's island) and to the South Shore from the city centre, so if anything they might need to increase the frequency and capacity eventually. The REM will replace the following bus services that use either the...

2/3 of the REM, from Brossard to Bois-Franc in St-Laurent, will have service every 2min30sec at peak time, every 5 minutes the rest of the day. That's a métro service. Service on the 3 northern branches is RER-likish though : REM Branch Peak Frequency Non-Peak Frequency Brossard to...

STM’s 2022 accessibility map.

English is an afterthough on the REM website, whose management team is French-speaking. On the French site, they call it a métro léger (light métro). They didn't update all of their English pages, but they now call it a metro, even in English (which you seem to think is the only one that is...

Yes, they shut down the Montreal and Southern Counties streetcar in ... 1956.But the alignment would almost certainly not be the same one. There's no proposed alignments per se, just a mandate to find the most useful and cost-effective solution to provide service from the northeast of the city...

From what I have read, heated sidewalks are not efficient when the temperature gets really cold, as it does in Montreal. The average high/low in January are 1C/-5C in Oslo, compared to -4C/-14C in Montreal. It's a significant difference. The snow that melts on the sidewalks has to go...

The Investment Bank has not even done that : they provided a $1B loan (and not even interest-free) to the REM, but they did not invest in it.

Actually, the REM only got a loan from the Canada Infrastructure Bank. The CDPQ invests 70% of the funds (including the $'s loaned by the CIB), the Governement of Quebec the remaining 30%.

Édouard-Montpetit will be the second deepest in North America, behind Portland's (Oregon) Washington Park light-rail station which is 79 metres down. Source

If it does have the deepest station in Canada, it won’t be for long. Montreal’s Édouard-Montpetit REM station, which is under construction, will be 70m deep.

The REM's capacity is 780 people per train, not 600. Source: The REM, seating and capacity Trains will be 80m long. Source (in French) : Comité de bon voisinage Canora-Mont-Royal and here too

Your bad faith doesn't change the fact that all these cities that use the same trains as the REM call their systems "metros". You have not answered my question : what is it that makes the REM different from these metros? Read post 439. 780 passengers train every 90 seconds = 31,200 ppd