Montreal's REM - First Trip and Station Reviews!

...but it was amazing otherwise!
0:00 - First trip
5:34 - Brossard Review
9:30 - Du-Quartier Review
13:07 - Panama Review
15:47 - The REM Dies...
20:41 - Gare Centrale Review
24:43 - Île-des-Sœurs Review
28:09 - Credits
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[@RMTransit]

Excellent video! Kudos for getting on the first train from the farm fields of Brossard.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Come for the review, stay for the beautiful snail and Reece cameo! You did a phenomenal job on all the REM content!

[@MilesinTransit]

Thank you so much, Reece!!

[@jyw0000]

Was this cameo scripted, or did you two just happen to be in opposing trains at the right time?

[@MilesinTransit]

@@jyw0000 The latter!

[@jyw0000]

@@MilesinTransit ahh I see. The train spirits have blessed y’all then 👍

[@bsquiklehausen]

Fastest REM Rider Alive

[@MilesinTransit]

We were the first people to officially complete a trip on it, so...yeah, I guess so!

[@marcleslac2413]

​@@MilesinTransitsame here!

[@cellavb447]

POV you're a disgruntled Montréalais starting your 5AM commute and the REM doors open to a sea of foam: "😬📸😬📸🤓📸😬😬😬📸😷📸😬" Just kidding, I have been waiting for this line to open for years! Glad you had an adventure up here in La Belle Province.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

I love how it's Day 1 and spiders are already at the stations to make themselves at home 😂You moving so quickly from it after realizing it could jump on you was priceless. And you're right, from the bridge, it DOES look like Hong Kong with the mountains! I'm impressed with the REM! I think going the elevated route was a solid choice! Building not just an elevated system, but one with platform screen doors is not only protecting people between stations with the complete grade-separation and inside stations with the platform screen doors, but also no accidents with cars would occur! And of course, you're saving money by not tunneling! Not to mention, elevated trains are an iconic part of urban cultures, like the L in Chicago and the 7 in Queens! REM will make the lives of Montrealers and those in its suburbs way better! On top of having a convenient way to the airport as part of the system's ambitions! But I gotta say: A little touch that I appreciate they did is the sound they chose for when the doors open and close at 0:40 and 1:07. It's literally like you're logging into Windows 98 REM edition. Chef's kiss.

[@alloallie]

I was going to say "Why does it sound like 90s computers ?" 😅

[@Will-im2np]

As someone who actually lives in the suburbs of Montreal, you are WRONG! My commute time by public transport has nearly doubled due to the reduction of bus services. The price of my commute has also doubled due to this because before, I bought the Bus only pass to use RTL and STM busses, but now I need the All Modes AB pass to use the REM, since not a single bus takes me to the island of MTL. They didn't improve our lives, they forced our hand.

[@jeanbolduc5818]

it is called : adaptation , your comment is very closed minded and egocentric,, i use the REM everyday and i love it@@Will-im2np

[@MK-fc2hn]

​@@Will-im2npHey someone's gotta pay for this multi billion dollar project. Do you expect only your fellow citizens to foot the whole bill without you having to contribute your fair share?? I don't even use transit (because it doesn't serve my job's industrial park location after midnight without a very long wait at an unsheltered bus stop and a very long night bus ride home) yet I have to pay a contribution to transit every year on my driver's license, and also on my car registration.. in addition to a disproportionately extra share from the progressive high income tax rates I pay on my 90,000 dollar annual income.. much of which goes to subsidize public transit users. I'm ok with that.. and I certainly don't btch about paying my fair share. If you are not happy with how the new mode works for your particular commute, you can always get a driver's licence yourself and pay for that rem that you won't even be using. If your current commute doubled, that might be the logical thing to do rather than complaining about having to pay extra for it. My point is that because the rem was built with the authorization (and contribution of tax dollars ) by our democratically elected officials, we ALL have to pay for it.. especially those who actually use it.

[@glaframb]

@@MK-fc2hn Well, both Public Transit and Public Road are subsidized by the others non-users. The automobilist contribution the Transit in Québec not just for the REM is 0,15 $ / Liters of Gas did not augmented since 1993, 30 years ago. The cost of building and maintenance did augment across the years. So when the contribution will be indexed with the inflation and how people using electric cars will paid for it since they don't use gas? Are we going to put toll gates on every road, every bridges and Cyclable Path. To make sure the users pays for it's cost to society. Those operations cost will had more complexity to the whole system. REM now charge 0,72 $/km/passangers transported. Since the AMT does no longer exist and have been replace by two division 1rst the Autorité Régional de Transport Métropolitain (ARTM) who have the mendate for the (Fares and Regionnal Planning ) while the second part aka Operation of Buses and Commuters Trains is now part of the Réseau de Transport Métropolitain (RTM) better known as their commercial name (EXO).

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

"That bus lane will be redundant starting today. There's gonna be no more buses using it today" *Famous last words.* And the Joker laugh at 5:24 is so perfect. The chaos of the REM dying and replaced with bus service, Reece being on a passing train, the fanfare, the wonderful views, backrooms, this was quite the experience to review the system! The rolling stock is part of the Alstom Metropolis family. 106 of these two-car trains were built in Sri City in Andhra Pradesh, India. They held a competition on the design for the trains, and the Saint-Laurent design won, with the front lights of the trains being inspired by the new Champlain Bridge. The snail you saw looks like Cepaea hortensis or the white-lipped snail. The native distribution of this species is Western and Central Europe, and they've since been introduced to the northeastern US and Canada, like there in Montreal.

[@Eric_Hunt194]

I assumed the snail was so pale because it overheard people speaking French and got scared

[@rogerbelanger6712]

@@Eric_Hunt194 What a group of racist junk

[@rogerbelanger6712]

Seen a psy lately ?

[@hnitsua]

oppa kim john style@@rogerbelanger6712

[@bnywtrains9482]

22:57 was LITERALLY where I had my first experience with liminal spaces to that bizarre of an extent. I was 7 and we were staying at the hotel inside Place Bonaventure (don’t recall if it had been a Hilton or not at the time) and I was 7 years old. We got lost walking back from Gare Centrale (of course) and the area we ended up in looked exactly like that.

[@shreychaudhary4477]

Channels like yours, Selig's Trains and Travels, Classy Whale, and all the other "transit shenanigans" channels out in KZbin have given me an inspiration to go on similar trips, be thankful for transit in my area, and, in general, take more transit. I feel like I'm not alone here. Y'all have been a force of good in this world.

[@ratedpz9461]

I couldn’t agree more

[@MilesinTransit]

Thank you so much - that's always my favorite thing to hear, that the silly things we do on this channel encourage people to go out and ride transit themselves.

[@shreychaudhary4477]

@@MilesinTransit Update: I jogged to the closest BART station, loaded up my fare card, and then took the bus back home. It feels so patriotic for some weird reason!

[@MilesinTransit]

@@shreychaudhary4477 Nicely done!!

[@shreychaudhary4477]

@@MilesinTransit It was so fun! The bus was once every 30 minutes only on weekdays and the bus stop was half a mile from home, but when I go to college the area is more grid-y, so I should hopefully have more chances to ride buses!

[@m.e.3862]

Love this! I saw you guys at the Panama station during the breakdown. I was one of the hapless commuters who was late for work waiting in line. Heard you guys at the back of the bus. Great insight into the lack of information and signage. It's damned annoying because you know they could do better. Personally I think you're better than Reece. You at least acknowledged that walking into the Panama station will be cold as fuck during the winter. No one else mentioned that.

[@MilesinTransit]

Oh gosh, sorry you ended up being caught in that! I appreciate your attention to our attention to detail!

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

I'm glad they replaced the original Champlain bridge, on top of adding rail space for the REM! The old 1962 one (which was a steel truss cantilever) was extremely degraded by de-icing salt and couldn't handle higher volumes of traffic. Now it can! The current cable-stay 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. And yes, the English name of Île des Sœurs is Nuns' Island. Basically from 1706 all the way to 1956, the nuns used the island for farming. In 1956, they sold it and the provincial government merged it with Verdun. The development of the island began in earnest with the opening of the original bridge. As part of a master plan, three thousand people moved into 800 units by 1968. Then three high-rise apartments were built the year after. After land was reclaimed, unsystematic construction has continued rapidly since then. Over 20,000 lived there based on a 2016 census.

[@francissager3133]

If memory serves me right, the original design of the new Champlain bridge had a dedicated bus transit way, which is now where the REM tracks sit. The REM also displaced the bus lanes on the Aut 10. That disappointed me, as I used to sneek my bus into those bus lanes when I used to bring a group to the Bell Centre at Dix30 (Ten-thirty).

[@PiousMoltar]

Damn Jong-Un, you know your shit.

[@5k3m.]

Never knew the supreme leader was so cultured.

[@aldenhunt]

Always a good day when there's a metro opening somewhere in the world - thanks for bringing us along! That transfer at Gare Centrale is bizarre though...

[@nasc.1192]

If you visit Montreal in the winter, you will understand why everything is done to avoid to walk outside. This is supposed to be a simple exit to Place Bonaventure building for workers at peak hours to avoid congestion in the Gare Centrale and an unecessary crossroad outside when it is -20 celsius to reach work offices in this large building (which is also a hotel and a exhibition center)

[@MaterielRoulant]

It was a pleasure to meet you there and be your living translators lmao! Nice video as always, and we hope that you'll come back to visit once the other branches open to public! Oli & Jules

[@MilesinTransit]

Ooh, is there a new KZbin channel on the horizon? It was fantastic to hang out with you guys!!

[@nasc.1192]

Merci de les avoir guidés et d'avoir été d'une grande sollicitude dans ce dédale unilingue pas du tout adapté à nos amis touristes venant de l'autre côté de la frontière. Il est bien entendu important de les réinviter lorsqu'il sera possible de reprendre le train dans le tunnel sous le Mont-Royal.

[@m.e.3862]

Merci les deux 😁

[@Mentally_Will]

Congrats on your first subscriber lol

[@himbourbanist]

Really great system, sets an awesome standard for North American Rapid Transit for sure. Can't wait to see the completed system with all of the branches, and hopefully the REM East ends up getting built in spite of all of the NIMBYs

[@trainrover]

no, I'm afraid this corporate endeavour at for-profit transit of - uhm - theirs is flawed --- their resurrected Expo-Express is turning out to screw an awful lot of commutes up, and its accessibility factor has been a blunder, with escalators and elevators broken down for weeks on end --- instead of hauling passengers forward, one of the robo shuttles tripped backwards, passed the terminus, and then stabled itself in the garage --- lots of problems with this for-profit transit that harks back to its touristy fairgrounds-limited predecessor, of which its advent of automatic operation onto the world's travelling public had been devilishly cloaked 💡💡💡

[@trainrover]

I admire how Americans still get to glide into their regional cities on coaches -- we're not allowed to even if traveling by mere bus, as the valley's chief authority here has just recently happened to have announced their abandonment of coaches and their universal preference for buses -- altogether, this Québécois custom is TELLINGLY ass-backwards as far as promoting public transport goes... fuck Legault... fuck Trudeau too...

[@trainrover]

it happens to lack accessibility factors, i.e., attributes that regular commuters needn't ever bother considering --- and that NIMBYesqueness you bring up is stone age practice, for now many respondents to my upload featuring its abominable noisiness think nothing of shoving predecessors out of the quarters wherever this crappy product happens to penetrate 💡💡💡 its cleptoparasitic corporateers recurringly score a flat ZERO on the social quotient regarding this invasiveness of theirs, as far as the valley media in both languages here go 💡💡💡 And the joke is these crooks' predecessors had poured SO reasearch into quietening their Expo-Express, while the vainly stilted segment of this replacement of its turns out to have been dually cast as helluva sound instrumen

[@trainrover]

I think it'd been this month that the report on the Est network says it ought to be entirely underground while estimating a prohibitive cost of 37 billion $ --- i.e., the East End is lumped its coal as customarily as ever... 💡💡💡

[@suave-rider]

Sydney Australia has had a driverless metro system for 4 1/2 years and next year opens a 40km subway extension through the city kzbin.info/www/bejne/boeYdWt8ZdGja7ssi=avuFTjKHHmfUfob8

[@surf6009]

I enjoyed how you kept filming . What a rebel!

[@ilancardenas-silverstein525]

On Saturday during the test opening of Brossard, the city government had a little table set up explaining their development vision for the areas around stations. The main thing I saw and understood in my poor French is that they want to revitalize the area around Panama and make it into their new downtown. I bet this is a very long term project but I'm excited to see it come into shape!

[@MilesinTransit]

That's amazing to hear!

[@toquelau5715]

DUDE YOU'RE FUNNY AS HELL!! I follow a bunch of transit channels and they all have their distinct styles and merits, but your bigger-than-life presentation, impromptu observations on the smallest of things and superdaddy jokes brings a fresh air of joy to transit reviews!! I was laughing all the way and totally wheezed on the STCUM bahaha You deserve much success! Keep up your hard work and whimsical style, and in no time you'll break 100k, 500k subs and beyond! I live in Toronto and couldn't be in MTL for the opening but surely will tour all the stations, let's see if it evolves from Screen Zero to Screen One! cheers yo

[@mmrw]

He’s just so charming, that’s the best way I can describe it. Charming in a way I haven’t seen from any other transit KZbin channel, and very few other KZbin channels of any genre

[@MilesinTransit]

Gosh, you guys are too kind! Thank you so so much, the kind words really mean a ton.

[@jeanbolduc5818]

The lady's voice on the REM is not just a voice , she is an well known actress in Canada , USA and Europe ..Caroline Dhavernas is a Canadian actress. In the United States, her best known work has been her collaborations with Bryan Fuller. She played Jaye Tyler in the Fox comedy-drama series Wonderfalls, and Alana Bloom in the NBC psychological horror drama series Hannibal. She also starred as Lily Brenner in the ABC medical drama Off the Map. From 2017 to 2019, she portrayed the titular character in the Canada-produced and Canadian- and American-distributed medical drama-black comedy Mary Kills People. She is fully bilingual with no accent , her husband and family are also actors and actresses .

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

So basically, what they did at Gare Centrale with the REM platforms is what the MTA did with the 42nd Street Shuttle. Gare Centrale was designed by John Schofield, architect-in-chief of CNR or Canadian National Railway. Construction started in 1926 but was halted in 1930 as a result of the Great Depression. Construction resumed in 1939 and finally opened in July 1943, as the first of a series of large-scale urban redevelopment projects. Along designing it and hotels for the railway, he also designed several schools, churches, Montreal Forum, commercial buildings, and hospitals, as well as residential buildings in both Montreal and Kingston, Ontario. Learning another language when you visit another place is part of diving into the culture, so if anything, the signage and announcements being in French is motivation to continue learning. Quebec French is so interesting. On top of its isolation from the evolution of European French, which Quebec French retained some of the French verbs, vocabulary, and expressions used in 17th-and 18th-century, they also created new French-sounding words and try to Anglicize as little as possible. Like in France, parking is parking, but in Quebec, parking is stationnement

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

In Québec email is "courriel", in France it's ... email.

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

@@glaframb Je ne vois pas pourquoi mon commentaire de dix mots vous a inspiré d'écrire un livre entier. Je suis canadien. Je connais la différence entre le Québec et la France. Je sais que "couriel" est un raccourcissement des mots "courrier électronique". Et en plus comme anglophone je sais qu'il est correcte d'utiliser le mot French pour décrire les Québécois francophones puisqu'il n'y a pas de distinction entre "Français" et "français" en anglais. Ils ont tous les deux une majuscule.

[@x9alex2x]

@@OntarioTrafficMan In Quebec we use both interchangeably.

[@AnouMr]

I live in Laval, north of Montreal, and I discovered your channel because I was browsing for content on the REM. Your review is super super fun to watch! (and makes me pround of our new transit system) I'm subscribed and I can't wait for next year for your review of REM part 2 with the 18 new stations!!

[@MilesinTransit]

Thanks so much!

[@ratedpz9461]

Great Video! It’s so funny and on par with North American transit for the REM to be shuttled on the first day, but despite that hiccup and the horrible wayfinding at Gare Centrale, i have high hopes for this system and think similar projects would benefit countless cities. Hopefully I get to ride the REM soon since it’s the second automated transit system opened in North America in about a month. REM is amazing, except when it isn’t!

[@MilesinTransit]

Agreed!

[@gem1607]

I had never heard the phrase “kiss and ride” before thank you for teaching me a some new vocab! And thanks for the awesome video too, special shout out to your translators and the snail 🐌

[@MilesinTransit]

Thank you!

[@craigluff]

I'm so happy you and your group of friends came to Montreal!! I took the REM on Saturday when it opened and wondered if I'd see you guys. Have a nice visit to Montreal ;)

[@alloallie]

I think my favourite part is them having a sign on the bridge with "Bienvenue aux usagers du REM". My vivid imagination wishes the bottom half were "Tant pis pour le train" (Too bad, no train). LOL ! I think I really like how airy and clean the stations look. Really cool !

[@jfmezei]

The quote from La Press about you and Jeremy: « C’est vraiment plaisant et c’est beau. C’est le système de métro le plus moderne en Amérique du Nord présentement », s’était réjoui le jeune Miles Taylor, venu des États-Unis pour visiter le REM. « C’est vraiment smooth. C’est comme dans du beurre », a plaisanté son ami Jeremy Zorek, à son côté. "It is really pleasant and nice looking. It is the most modern system in North America at the moment" said with joy the young Kilometres Taylor, who came from the United States to visit the REM. "It's really smooth, like butter" joked his friend Jeremy Zorez at his side.

[@williamerazo3921]

😂😂😂😂😂 Kilometer Taylor. Man the French Canadians will butch up someone’s name not to use miles

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

@@williamerazo3921 It must be Kilometres Quebecness instead of Miles Morales in their dub.

[@sans_hw187]

@@williamerazo3921 blame google translate here. Still it’s not just French Canadians who use kilometers instead of Miles, but the whole world except English speakers

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

@@sans_hw187 what do you mean except English speakers? Every English speaking country uses kilometres except the US and the UK. Including all of Canada regardless of which language is spoken.

[@mariachrzski18]

This video was so fun it had me smiling the whole way through!!!

[@MilesinTransit]

Thank you so much!

[@michaelstar9735]

Man Jeremey makes the videos so good, him and Miles do so well building off each other and are so knowledgable on transit/trains as a whole. Keep up the great work!

[@eddayo]

So much of Cities Skylines starts making sense after seeing North American cities and public transportation systems.

[@EKsUrbanTracks]

If i were an engineer I wouldn't open my métro line without you testing it first. The points you made for accessibility and bike parking were incredible insightful.

[@MilesinTransit]

What's interesting is that they did do a lot of testing beforehand! That's something I've been wondering about - it seems like it's had a delay every day so far. Did these happen during the testing phase too?

[@railsand]

everyone just went crazy when they saw reece

[@a1esum]

absolute legend

[@railsand]

@@a1esumYO ITS REECE 😱

[@IWATS]

Damm we need a part 2 in 2024😂🔥

[@RicksTravelogue]

This from Miles in Transit and Company Man's Wawa, why they're successful. What a wonderful Wednesday it is.

[@CharlieND]

Just finished watching company man's wawa video. What a coincidence.

[@christinadejesus]

I love how stoked you all are. ❤

[@corradoguglielmo1386]

Just found your channel recently and its so nice to get to see north american transit in a less formal and more direct way, as a european i try to visit cities in the continent and their transit but can't really do that there. Also you sound really honest with regards to criticisms and pros and cons for the stations. Fun video overall

[@MilesinTransit]

Thank you so much!

[@roberthicks6161]

I've ridden the public transport in a few cities around the world, and having lived in Boston and gone to school in Montreal, I especially enjoyed your reviews of the GLX in the former and now the REM in the latter. Your videos manage to be both informative and fun, with a lot of practical information combined with sharp insight into what does and does not work. I get the impression that following you guys around on one of your video shoots would be a scream. As another commenter remarked, I think every transit system would do well to hire you fellows to ride their systems and deliver an evaluation. You could establish a consultancy! As for the REM, it's obvious there are some glitches to be resolved, and wayfinding definitely needs to improve. But as you said, it's still better than what you find in most North American cities. I'm looking forward to riding it and I hope you will return to Montreal to review the remaining portions of the network when they open. I'm especially interested in what the underground portion will look like and what will be the deepest station in Canada at Édouard Montpetit. You do a great job, good luck to you guys!👍

[@MilesinTransit]

Thank you so much!!

[@Eric_Hunt194]

Man, if I'd had to deal with that stoppage I'd be Losing My Religion. Thankfully they fixed it to make lots of Shiny Happy People. But if the communication isn't there then Everybody Hurts.

[@MilesinTransit]

HEH!

[@radagastwiz]

At least it wasn't The End of the World as We Know It.

[@spider_hoss]

It kind of has an airport train vibe.

[@MilesinTransit]

If only we had more automated light metros so we could shake off the stereotype in the US that the technology is only used in airports!

[@irtbmtind89]

It reminds me of the subway in Mirror's Edge. The original Metro system is a masterpiece of midcentury modernist architecture, hopefully the REM ends up as the 21st century equivalent.

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

I suspected the South entrance at Gare Centrale would be kind of modest but I was not expecting full-on stealth mode!

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

(The south entrance was blocked off when I rode the REM on Sunday)

[@MilesinTransit]

Absolutely worth a visit next time you're there!

[@glaframb]

@@OntarioTrafficMan to be honest it's a more direct access between Place Bonaventure and the REM. I went on January 9th, 2024. You can not access through the locked door unless we wait for someone to exit through this way and enter after them.

[@immabadgamer]

The fact that this opened before line 5 in Toronto is really saying something

[@Jay-vr9ir]

It already broke down .

[@LouisChang-le7xo]

and also seattle's line 2, opening today

[@camerontausch7757]

The cackle at the mcdonalds poutine ad lol, i didnt even think about it but of course fast food places wouldnt have poutine outside canada

[@saz_donned5214]

after seeing this video,, i hope you come to Ottawa when line 2 of our LRT opens (whenever that may be)!!!

[@cameron_o]

hell yeah, glad you got to ride it boss man, another great video! Hope you got to enjoy the rest of the city as well, I got blasted walking down Catherine St and it made me realize how much I now want to learn French and move to montreal

[@MilesinTransit]

It's such an amazing city!

[@LouisOnAir]

I'm not gonna visit Montreal again for at least a year (I should probably make the journey once more sections open next year) and this is the review I've been waiting for because I actually have a really good idea now of how the REM is integrated into the fabric of the RESO around Centrale and Bonaventure, plus the ToD off-island looks great... I'm also terrified of entering the backrooms if I ever go there but that's beside the point

[@jasonwyland5198]

Jordan wherever you are - you are acknowledged

[@MilesinTransit]

He was going to come but ran into passport issues, unfortunately!

[@unconventionalideas5683]

"Urgence" is French for "Emergency," so as someone with some knowledge of French, as soon as I heard that, I realized that the system had suffered some kind of catastrophic technical failure that kept it from functioning at all.

[@thingeeeeeee]

and i wanted to ride during the weekend. you had to be there, the lines were insane 😂 (glad to know DIX30 is near a REM station)

[@urbanshepherdgroup2418]

It is a nice high quality light rail system, I just wish seats were not made of plastic and i would like a slightly different seat layout. It is still amazing!

[@barbaradps828]

YESSS I haven’t had the chance to try the REM yet, but I’m SO excited to try it! Will probably go soon 😄😄😄

[@ClassyWhale]

2:15 - missed opportunity for a Van Halen acapella deviation EDIT NEVERMIND 13:10

[@1-among-many]

1:00 In most systems, the stated “departure time” almost always refers to the exact second when the brakes release, not when the doors begin to close. So naturally the doors will begin to close several seconds early, because it's probably not a good idea to release the brakes before the doors are safely shut. Vancouver's Skytrain appears to be an exception, because in Vancouver, it appears that the departure time is when the doors _begin to_ close. AFAIK, the behaviour with the REM is the more standard one. French and Japanese rail and metro systems all share the same behaviour, more specifically, with the Paris metro and the Japanese rail system, and Japan in particular even has public-facing information explicitly stating this.

[@KoiMorris]

Nice review and video! That was wild that you got bustituted on the first day of revenue service. I agree that REM's communication about the issue could have been better. I'll have to get up there at some point to ride the system (maybe when they open the next set of stations).

[@MilesinTransit]

Thank you! The next set of stations looks like it's going to be HUGE

[@Unmannedperson]

Just here to appreciate the 50th Anniversary of BART shirt

[@CharlieND]

I love the REM. I love the majestic riff that plays when the doors open and close. I love the foamer windows. I love the view of the Montréal skyline from the train. I love how spacious, clean, and well-lit the stations are. More cities should be building systems like the REM instead of street-running LRTs. I guess my only nitpick is that I wish they did announcements in English and French. I know it's Quebec and everything, but transit agencies in other parts of Canada are doing announcements in both languages now; I think the REM should too. Overall, the REM is a fantastic system that other cities can (and should) learn from.

[@NaownHibink]

I believe provincial law requires French-only text, signages and announcements on roads and public transit. They compensate for this with pictorials.

[@marcscattolin1554]

@@NaownHibink That's not quite the case, bill 101 says: Public signs and posters and commercial advertising must be in French. They may also be both in French and in another language provided that French is markedly predominant. However, the Government may determine, by regulation, the places, cases, conditions or circumstances where public signs and posters and commercial advertising must be in French only, where French need not be predominant or where such signs, posters and advertising may be in another language only. So in general there can be English signage, as long as French is predominant. On the REM and metro, you'll notice that text about emergency procedures (emergence brake, etc) are in both languages, with French in larger font. I believe English is there because of federal law

[@pepperpillow]

If you liked those stations your going to love the next ones

[@Improj69]

I need to run to Montréal again

[@jacktattersall9457]

Funny fact: the announcements on the REM are recorded by the daughter of the voice actress who recorded the annoucements on the Montreal Metro. So telling you which station is next is a family business on Montreal's rapid transit!

[@amy4kaseykahne]

Miles I love your content despite a severe lack of public transport in north Texas where I live. I would like your words to stay on the screen a bit longer. I have to pause to read.

[@MilesinTransit]

Noted, thank you!

[@jayron9]

Saint-Cum Logo.. I died🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@meandi2964]

Watching on the REM right now

[@liminal-refridgerator]

What an incredible performance of a Chicago highway median station.

[@whophd]

G’day from Sydney! Where your sister line is, and there’s another in London Crossrail, and somewhere in Spain and Kuala Lumpur’s Putrajaya Line. It’s freaky how similar these systems are, like a Springfield-Shelbeyville feeling. Even your skyways look the same - and from the sounds of it, you’ll have a few weeks of teething problems. It’ll be fine soon.

[@TechJolt3d]

3:15 DAM RM TRANSIT MAKING THE CAMEO AHAHAH

[@jiiiid2983]

Oh wow did not expect a station review this soon, what a pleasant surprise! I rode it free exhibition weekend (apparently that doesn't count :p) and the hype was so huge they literally hit max capacity in 3 hours. I love that you guys found a liminal dimension under Gare Centrale. Thats so eerie I gotta find where that is now. Also the mic didn't do it justice but underneath île des-soeurs station is LOUD. Think its the metal siding shaking as the trains go over. Gotta either be tightened or removed.

[@robertknutson491]

Bro I was in Montreal when this was filmed Can’t believe I missed you am sad 😢 If you rode in on a via train on the 29th then I might have saw you

[@minirick69]

Thank the lord for the guy that put stickers for the rem because i find that the way from bonaventure metro station is AWFUL, otherwise a really great system that is very useful (for me atleast) Great video Miles ! Loved it !

[@MilesinTransit]

Thank you!!

[@jeanbolduc5818]

only smart people do not complain and know where they are going ...

[@minirick69]

do i look like i go into gare centrale everyday ? @@jeanbolduc5818

[@adnamamedia]

the liminal space you stumbled upon reminds me of the concourse under center city philly 😂 where you can walk from 8th to 18th st completely underground in the spookiest and most confusing network of tunnels

[@adnamamedia]

and there are extremely random and hidden connections to certain buildings and other underground areas along the way

[@jeanbolduc5818]

only smart people do not complain and find there ways

[@dutchvanderlinde154]

Great video.

[@MilesinTransit]

Thank you!

[@alejandroviasus668]

Kilometers in Transit BACK AT IT WIDDA banger!!

[@noahyvr3739]

aww reece cameo!

[@brettparnell8254]

English wayfinding would be illegal in Quebec as of recent changes.

[@WilliamThorsson-zg4yy]

Video idea Miles: I know you already did Cleveland, but the Waterfront line is back after two years out of service on September 10th. The irony is you weren't able to do the Blue or Green lines last time you were here, and they will again be on shuttle buses when the Waterfront line reopens.

[@jg-7780]

22:11 Ooo, just like in the Baltimore MetroSubwayLink!

[@johnt2130]

5:43 that is so cool! A waste basket! best part of the station not gonna lie

[@Bronx718]

That's the same as Atlanta AirTran but with a few more seats.

[@jfmezei]

The current iteratio of the bridge was not built with dedicated bus lanes since it was designed with central deck for transit (eother buses or trains). Early on, it was decided it woudl be rail, so the buses have been running without bus lanes for a few years since traffic switched from old to new bridge. The old bridge had a makeshift dedicated bus lane made with orance coes and switched morning and night. But when that bridge started to need a lot fo duct tape and steel beams to hold it together, the bus lane coudln't be done because they had to keep traffic from edges of bridge.

[@Jonathan-Adames-402]

YOUR THE BEST TRANSIT KZbinR

[@MilesinTransit]

THANK YOU

[@PabloBD]

Classic Foamer Hysteria

[@thefareplayer2254]

2:49 Narrator Voice: “Little did they know…”

[@jasonwyland5198]

End of the World? The Great Beyond? Shiny Happy People? Appropriate REM song for the REM?

[@NorthCountryTrains]

I’m not surprised at all about the shutdown Monday morning 😂. It was bound to happen, something always goes wrong on the first day. I visited Tuesday and had no issues on my trips. My video is finally dropping tonight.

[@gem1607]

Also 20:34 “this is some port authority crap” LMAO

[@gamereric2189]

The indicator above the doors at 9:29 designates if trains will stop there. During less busy times of the year, only 2-car sets will run - the doors that won't open will have a big X on that sign.

[@MilesinTransit]

Ah, that makes sense - that's handy!

[@nickhiscock8948]

That train is exactly the same as in Sydney except for the Sydney metro trains are walk through 6 car units. Whats strange is the connecting buses are peak only! In Australia such bus connections are 7 days a week all day.

[@jeanbolduc5818]

You are a good australien ambassador ... meaning egocentric and very British thinking they are the center of the world but the most closed minded people.

[@phil1625]

Montreal just announced Opus card reload through an app starting in April. In 2027 cards will be gone for people with cell phones and credit cards. No catenary in the famous Mount Royal tunnel yet, REM phase 2 still scheduled for end of this year.

[@mmanisr22]

Nice video. I had to rely on my junior high school French when I was there in May

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

Pretty much everyone in Montréal can speak English, despite what they may pretend.

[@mmanisr22]

@@OntarioTrafficMan I notice they speak it when they have to otherwise they prefer French

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

@jameskellis3122 As an Anglo-Canadian the most effective way to get them to speak English is to speak to them in French.

[@jeanbolduc5818]

not true .... Quebeckers are the most open minded people and been dealing with you unilingual english canada @jameskellis3122

[@alk61695]

That train system looks like an airport tram.

[@jimspies2775]

The reason Canada can do an enclosed bridge over a highway where the Silver Line couldn't because it is too heavy is because of the metric system. 1kg is 2.2lbs, which is a bigger number. Can't argue with maths.

[@MilesinTransit]

So true

[@glaframb]

Yeah but what is more precise Imperial or Metric ? With the Imperial the Inch is the base unit you can also divided an inch in 1/2 inch, 1/4 inch, 1/8 inch, 1/16, 1/32 and the smallest 1/64 of a inches. (inch , feet= 12 inches, yard = 3 feets or 36 inches, miles = 5280 feets = 1760 yards or 63 360 inches) or Metric (Microns = 1 /1000 milimiters or 1 /1 000 000 of a meters, millimeters (1/1000 of a meter), centimeters (1/100 of a meter, Meters (1/1) and kilometers (1000/1)!

[@JohnDoe-wj3lv]

Hey Miles, while you’re in Canada, please come to Ottawa and roast OC transpo

[@Mk99987]

I hope they cleaned the foam from the car floors.

[@maddotaun9648]

another miles video week saved

[@jordanmcgrory2171]

Well done for choosing the correct door. All others have tigers behind them. Chuckled endlessly at how much you struggled with French. Remember English is in large part French spoken badly, so you know far more than that you think you know.

[@ethankearl8771]

if you ever come to the uk take the 93 and 100 busses in west sussex never on time and take the eurotunnel

[@97nelsn]

Imagine if the shuttle bus had dots

[@trainrover]

I've been meaning to mention how serious a nuisance the shad flies (may flies) are around the river...for instance, their abundance is so much at the weeks-long peak that they're blown into your ear holes nearly as much as stuffed way up into your nostrils, cycling there along the seaway path right by the mid-crossing foot underneath the new Champlain bridge --- hence spiders everywhere that confound window washers

[@RichardChonak]

Since you are north of the border, welcome to "Clicks in Transit"!

[@eilidhmm]

Yeah there's no English signage because it's kind of illegal to provide in Quebec now without having a legal exception - especially public services have had to clamp down on the use of English. It is wild seeing Du Quartier and Panama as they are now - totally different from when i was there a decade ago!

[@eilidhmm]

Panama used to be an L-shaped line of bus shelters and nothing else, look at it now!

[@burgerpommes2001]

Just do it in French Englisch and Spanish

[@MilesinTransit]

Man, that's kind of insane it's illegal to put English signage up...

[@samppw]

@@MilesinTransit it is kind of insane and the government (and us) know that. the thing is, the government believes it's necessary to protect the french language. i am not sure that is the case.. statistically it doesn't make sense but that's how it is.

[@ghhfgbbkufgh]

@@samppw gud ol trudindu!

[@pacoramirez7363]

So if a subway runs above the ground instead of under the ground, is it called a domway?

[@MilesinTransit]

Hahaha

[@PikalaxALT]

14:30 that snail can enter into a race against the mbta red line and win handily

[@chickenpommes19]

Miles en transit accidentally finding les coulisses du gare central.

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

17:37 Wow, I understood all without speaking French.

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

"Attention at all the voyagers, a problem technical causes th'interruption of service, thanks of your comprehension"

[@jeanbolduc5818]

Station and station , in french or english .... more than 40 % of english vocabulaire comes from french ... french was the language of england for more than 300 years and the language of all Royal families and the court... French is also the official language of the european parliament and the Olympics

[@trainman1971]

My comment on it dying: The ghosts of the MR-90's are angry and having their revenge. 🤣🤣🤣 OMG the fare gates! You saw it too! SEPTA Key!!! And speaking of SEPTA Key, the bus validators are the same as NJT's bus validators....

[@markvogel5872]

The robot train decided to not work.....good job robots!