Northern Light
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*ahem* not everyone has kids in their young years...
Don't tell me your rocking those form-fitting, attention getting outfits in your senior years, LOL
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Montréal Transit Developments
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Don't tell me your rocking those form-fitting, attention getting outfits in your senior years, LOL
Mind_the_gap
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A better photo, in my opinion @nfitz...
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Edit: Sorry @Northern Light, I hadn't noticed your post.
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Towered
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If Iggy Pop can do it...
dowlingm
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There was also the problem that none of the stations between STC and Kennedy were accessible so there was no intention to run the service past 2025 anyway, so the incident merely brought that forward
Bojaxs
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Vaudreuil-Hudson line to lose up to 20 per cent of its riders: Exo chief
In an exclusive interview, Sylvain Yelle says he expects ridership to suffer when the REM is implemented.
montrealgazette.com
The hits keep coming for EXO. Destined to become an afterthought once the REM is fully operational.
Sylvian claims that EXO does one thing better than REM, .... parking. Which I don't think is necessarily true. Looking at the Vaudreuil-Hudson line on Google maps shows a lot of the stations in the Dorval area don't even have nearly as much parking as the smallest GO stations.
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NoahB
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Two REM trains malfunctioned "at precisely the same spot" at Central Station, causing a two-hour shutdown of that station.
montrealgazette.com
Two REM trains hit "system failure" at Central Station, causing partial line shutdown
Two REM trains blocked central station for more than two Thursday afternoon and buses had to shuttle riders to and from the South Shore.
montrealgazette.com
Bojaxs
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Concerns about future of Vaudreuil-Hudson Exo line after REM opens in West Island
The head of Montreal’s commuter train operator, Exo, says once the REM begins running in the West Island, the Vaudreuil-Hudson train line will see a 15-20 per cent decrease in ridership.
Montreal West mayor says having less frequency, fewer trains is good for public safety. Huh? I mean, technically he's right, I suppose. But doesn't seem to be a worthy argument against the train.
robmausser
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Concerns about future of Vaudreuil-Hudson Exo line after REM opens in West Island
The head of Montreal’s commuter train operator, Exo, says once the REM begins running in the West Island, the Vaudreuil-Hudson train line will see a 15-20 per cent decrease in ridership.montreal.ctvnews.ca
Montreal West mayor says having less frequency, fewer trains is good for public safety. Huh? I mean, technically he's right, I suppose. But doesn't seem to be a worthy argument against the train.
Number of cars on the roads increases due to less people taking train. More deaths from car accidents. He's not even technically right.
Urban Sky
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He is the mayor of Montreal-West and therefore only concerned about public safety within Montreal-West and therefore presumably right. Whether his concerns should inform a decision about adjusting the current frequency of trains is an entirely different question…
nfitz
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I don't think that's true in Montreal West. Will people from Dorval and Beaconsfield be driving through Montreal West to get downtown?
Meanwhile, it will be safer in the town itself - as students are very tempted to ignore the crossing barriers so as not to be late for school.
Bojaxs
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A bit of good news for EXO.
montrealgazette.com
Lucien-L'Allier train station slated to reopen this fall for all three commuter lines
The Vaudreuil-Hudson line will return later than expected, but the St-Jérôme and Candiac lines earlier than expected.
montrealgazette.com
nfitz
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Interesting - we had some discussion earlier about EXO rail ridership being down, particularly on these 3 lines. I hadn't realized that Lucien d'Allier was closed.A bit of good news for EXO.
Lucien-L'Allier train station slated to reopen this fall for all three commuter lines
The Vaudreuil-Hudson line will return later than expected, but the St-Jérôme and Candiac lines earlier than expected.
I'm amused to see the Gazette write this is the first renovation to Lucien l'Allier station since 1976.
ARG1
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Except it wasn't these three lines, in fact the only 2 EXO lines that are doing well are the VH and SJ lines which both terminate at LL.
The 3 struggling Exo lines are Candiac, which terminates at LL, and the Masouche and MSH Lines which don't.
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Didn't LL first open in 1997... ?I'm amused to see the Gazette write this is the first renovation to Lucien l'Allier station since 1976.
felix123
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The last of the three temporarily shuttered blue line stations has reopened.
nfitz
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Ah, thanks for the reminder! They all looked surprisingly low, given how far we are past the pandemic. I didn't think Candiac looked any worse, relatively speaking, than the other two CPCS lines. MSH is a bit of a mystery of why it's so much poorer, relatively speaking.
About then - closer to 2000 I thinkk. But it was little more than the old platforms that were unchanged for many decades (other than the removal of the train shed - which must have happened sometime between 1950 and 1980). And that horrid undersized structure along the edge of the new Forum, at Montagne. It was the Metro station that was built in the late 1970s (opening in 1980), and the metro station had no connection to the tracks or Windsor station back then. The platforms were massively long - the longest stretching almost 550 metres from about Stanley to about Guy, so as to handle The Canadian. Even after they built the new Forum, they only lost about 200 metres.
I'm not entirely sure what they are up to, but looking at the 2024 photos in Google Earth, it looks very extensive, with the installation of shelters (finally!); and hopefully there's a direct connection now to the metro station and pedestrian access to anywhere other than the east side of Montagne.