Montreal 2002 - TRANSIT avec Québécois Freakbeat

[@aperturefilm]

I miss that old bus, just the interior part gave me a nostalgia 🥺

[@li.jjrodriguez]

As a Montrealer much of my life, this is a gem of a video, especially the timing of filming the 505 R-Bus in the contra flow lanes on Pie-IX Blvd before operation of these lanes were suspended in June 2002, 12 years after it was launched. Now, Pie-IX Blvd has been rebuilt and a new BRT following the same direction of traffic in the centre of the road was launched, November 7, 2022 with the 505 (now the 439) running all-day, every day in the new transit only lanes. I also like the nostalgia of the commuter train and the Métro car decorated in time for the Grand Prix.

[@trainluvr]

You have spoken for many a transit enthusiast up there in French town. Thank you.

[@michelst-laurent2464]

Merci pour cette vidéo vous avez visé le centre de mes intérêts, car je suis nostalgique.

[@glenatkinson7732]

Great video! I've been all over the world and I am a Torontonian but I LOVE Montreal. The Metro, people, music, food. It's all good. Probably my my fave city!

[@stpierreorama]

How about all those days of no sun and freezing your butt off and the terrible traffic? Oh and the stupid french language and terrible accents while trying to speak english. So happy I left when I was young. Nice place to visit, living there would drive me crazy.

[@mikeamber2528]

@@stpierreorama Nah, Montreal is one of the best places to live in. One of the safest cities in the world, rich with history and a unique and still developing culture. Cold temperatures are part of the winter experience and if you don't like them that's your opinion.

[@stpierreorama]

@@mikeamber2528 how are you enjoying the construction casatrophe? How about all that government coercion to get vaccinated and that 50%+ income tax. I love Montreal too but the city as we as the province is ran by morons.

[@stpierreorama]

@@mikeamber2528 I enjoy the cold but Montreal is depressingly gray. Not much sunshine

[@stpierreorama]

@@mikeamber2528 also French isn't stupid. Its a beautiful language but as a bilingual speaker I think its much easier to articulate in English. Arguing in French is frustrating because the language is more difficult I often see people get frustrated and out of breathe when arguing in French.

[@thejezuzof5144]

This is the video that really hits me with nostalgia cause i remember being on that blvd in 2002

[@ICR8K]

Ahhh the good old ST CUM days before they changed the name. I used to slide down the escalators at the metro stations before they installed the annoying spike nub. Late at night you could sneak a smoke at the end of the platform since it was empty. Falling asleep on the metro was a problem since it was so quiet from the rubber tires. I would wake up at the end of the metro line. Learning a new metro system is fun haha.

[@pedrovaleryl]

Thanks for posting this video it took me back, when I was still in college and I had to take the R-Bus 505 every morning at the stop of the 47e Rue to the PIE IX metro. It was a fast ride! Too bad careless people made this route go away, any ways I don't live within the area any more but it has change for sure... A lots of construction has happened and still happening now and traffic is worst than before. I missed the days when gas was cheap as well 69.9 cents and I thought that was expensive at the time!

[@TheShadowFox9642]

I miss those GM buses

[@STEVENVUEH599]

Same

[@shadeyxo]

The old Bell logo on the payphone! I still see that logo sometimes on old manhole covers. Also Cloud number 9 by Bryan Adams playing in the bus 🥺 I loved that song

[@RedbirdLostinTransit]

The good old days, good times

[@marcleslac2413]

1 an avant ma naissance et je me rappelle de tous les trains et métros

[@subparnaturedocumentary]

i was sent here by miles in transit!

[@trainluvr]

Thanks, I guess the new video is posted.

[@subparnaturedocumentary]

@@trainluvr yes!

[@assil110]

I was there :) I spent 6 years in cotes des neiges.

[@BixyTech]

old classic bus motor sound and also the best bus hehe. And for the metro nothing beat the mr-73 jeumont ;)

[@mikeamber2528]

You mean mr-63 Jeumont

[@BixyTech]

@@mikeamber2528 no i prefer the ssound of mr 73

[@mikeamber2528]

@@BixyTech yes, but mr-73 does not have a Jeumont variant. That's what I was correcting you on.

[@retroolschool]

Well done sir!

[@trainluvr]

You are welcome. I didn't think you would see it so quickly! Can someone translate the lyrics of that song? Was it or is it well known up there, or mostly forgotten?

[@retroolschool]

I never heard it before, but it sounded late 60s and fit with the Metros....

[@Abbubba_09]

I'm wondering what I was doing in this day of may 26th 2002 at 11:16 a.m 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@freedomchinaify]

I promise Montreal must be better than 98% of world cities back to 2002

[@TheShadowFox9642]

The good old days, even tho i can't remember lol

[@freedomchinaify]

I promise Montreal must be better than 98% of cities in the world back to 2002

[@antonboludo8886]

2002 does not seem long ago at all to me, LOL! xD

[@some.transit_buff4518]

You're awesome man, diamond for life!!

[@trainluvr]

Thank you young man.

[@neptunereviewsstuff7563]

When did the 1994 nova bus retire

[@Katrielle_Going_To_Quebec]

The STM retired all of their MCI and Novabus Classics and the Novabus 1st Gen LFS in 2012

[@donndivertido]

20 Years!

[@quebecpower978]

Meanwhile Japan was more advanced in the 1980's. I love Montréal but damn the infrastructures need some love.

[@3letta90]

You're comparing a city in Montreal to japan🤦‍♂️

[@hugoboyce9648]

Here's what I could decipher of the lyrics: Now I am a thug. I don't cross the street at the nails (zebra crossing?). Wherever I go I cock a snook. When I see a dog I kick it. My wife won't talk to me anymore, it's curious There is a conflict between us (litterally: "the rag is burning between us") Now I am a thug. My wife doesn't comb my hair at all I had told her "I love you" while (???) a chrysanthemum My wife won't talk to me anymore, it's curious There is a conflict between us (litterally: "the rag is burning between us") She took her pistol She started shooting At he first bullet, i swayed and I started shouting "You are a piece of garbage, my (???) in the sawdust, You'd better gargle, There is strychnine in you teacup, Undo your bed and you'll find an epithet in the sheets" (her) "Goodbye bitch, you'll miss me" (him)

[@STEVENVUEH599]

Ah... My city in 2002

[@alexhood9438]

i miss seeing the STM and the STCUM logos now they are just scratched up and dirty with that shitty new logo pasted on them and the orange interior of the MR-73s are gone :(

[@kartickanungo8486]

MR73 still have orange interiors .. with dark blue seats.. They are being phased out by the new MPM-10 AZUR trains by Bombardier

[@TheTristan890]

69 cents gas

[@Game_Hero]

Could you please rename the video and description to "Québécois Freakbeat"? French-Canadian is an offensive reductive exonym continued to be use to erase the québécois distinct culture and identity and allow Canada to freely steal our culture and get all the credit, glory and spotlight for it. It would be a nice gesture of yours.

[@Game_Hero]

Thank you very much :D

[@mikeamber2528]

@@Game_Hero Technically speaking, you are Canadian just as much as you are Quebecois. Those are the facts.

[@Game_Hero]

@@mikeamber2528 The fact is that I'm not canadian at all because I'm simply not, this is a reality on the ground that no one can change and maps and borders can't reflect. Please stop dictating who I am and not, foreigner, out of respect, please.

[@Game_Hero]

@@mikeamber2528 And it's still cultural plagiarism of our culture made for a separate different social and cultural reality, canadawashed for international audiences. And french-canadian is still an offensive archaic culturally inaccurate term to talk about the Quebecois people.

[@mikeamber2528]

@@Game_Hero I'm not a foreigner, I am a québécois just like yourself. I'm also Canadian and proud of it, and you should be too. You live in the country of Canada and the province of Québec. Some of the greatest places to live in in the world. So stop the weird victim mindset and embrace your true self, and stop using your negative, divisive mentality.