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The Montreal Metro (French: Métro de Montréal, pronounced [metʁo də mɔ̃ʁeal]) is a rubber-tired underground rapid transit system serving Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The metro, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), was inaugurated on October 14, 1966, during the tenure of Mayor Jean Drapeau .
These new stations—Central Station, McGill, and Édouard-Montpetit—would improve downtown Montreal service by integrating the REM with the Metro system through connections to the Orange, Green and Blue Lines. Included with news of the three new stations was an increased price tag of $5.9 billion for the entire project. [16] [17]
Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. Montreal has two international airports, one for passenger flights only, and the other for cargo. Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (also known as Dorval Airport) in the City of Dorval serves all commercial passenger traffic and is the headquarters for Air Canada [1] and Air Transat. [2]
The Montreal Metro rapid transit system was introduced in 1966 in preparation for the Canadian Centennial and Expo 67 World Fair in Montreal. Instead of traditional steel-wheeled trains, it is a rubber-tired metro , based on technology developed for the Paris Métro ; Montreal's system was the first in the world to be entirely rubber-tired (as ...
Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific (CP) had long operated commuter trains in the Montreal area, but by the 1980s, their services had dwindled to one route each. The Commission de transport de la communauté de Montréal (CTCUM, predecessor of the STM), which already managed Metro and bus services across the Island of Montreal, assumed management of CN's Deux-Montagnes commuter service ...
The REM de l'Est (lit. "Eastern REM") is an abandoned project of the eastward expansion of the Réseau express métropolitain (REM), the developing light metro network serving the metropolitan area of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [1]
Édouard-Montpetit station (French pronunciation: [edwaʁ mɔ̃pəti]) is a Montreal Metro station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [5] It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Blue Line. It is located in the Côte-des-Neiges area of the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce near the borough of ...
Frontenac station (French pronunciation: [fʁɔ̃tnak]) is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [4] It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Green Line. It is located at 2570 Ontario Street East in the Sainte-Marie neighbourhood, part of the Centre-Sud.