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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 .
Due to low usage, the line was initially operated from 5:30 am to 7:30 pm on weekdays, and used three-car trains instead of the nine-car trains used on the other Metro lines. Students from the University of Montreal , the main source of Blue Line riders, obtained an extension of the closing time to 11:10 pm and then 12:15 am in 2002. [ 3 ]
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 ...
By the year 2031, the Montreal Metro will consist of 73 stations once constructions of the extension of the Blue Line (or in French, "Prolongement de la ligne bleue") will be finished, inaugurating 5 new stations.
Exo, stylized as exo and officially known as Réseau de transport métropolitain (French pronunciation: [ʁezo də tʁɑ̃spɔʁ metʁɔpɔlitɛ̃], RTM; English: Metropolitan Transportation Network), is a public transport system in Greater Montreal, including the Island of Montreal, Laval (Île Jésus), and communities along both the North Shore of the Mille-Îles River and the South Shore of ...
On 25 November 2016, CDPQ Infra announced the addition of three new stations to the project. 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.
Saint-Michel station is a Montreal Metro station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [4] It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and is the eastern terminus of the Blue Line. It opened in 1986. The station briefly closed down in October 2024 due to structural issues with the primary beams above the station's walkway.
In its 1967 Urban Plan, entitled "Horizon 2000", [7] the city of Montreal planned to build a network of almost 100 miles (160 km) by the end of the twentieth century. On February 12, 1971, the council of the Montreal Urban Community authorized the borrowing of C$430 million to extend the Metro. This amount increased to C$665 million in 1973 ...