Chris_the_traveller

Terrible news.

You're pretty much guaranteed to see one at any of the metro stations at most times of day. In evenings and on weekends however, they are more scarce as the third gens take over.

31-058 on the 435-ouest this morning.

Saw 1413 the other day

You can get free tickets to ride the Mascouche line by filling out this form.

I was present for the launch of the Blainville, Saint-Hilaire and Delson lines, and I definitely won't miss the launch of the Mascouche line!

I definitely support the idea of keeping at least one nine-car set operable. If they keep at least four or five 3-car elements, they could service the blue line on summer weekends!

Transbus has the contract for the Casino shuttle and they only have NFI's when it comes to transit buses, so that's all you'll seen on that shuttle. As for 1237, that's one of the new 2014 XD40's only running on the shuttle with large Transbus logos on all 4 sides. I think you meant CITSV logos and not CITVR.

Yes, corrected. thanks.

Yesterday on the Casino shuttle I didn't see anything but NFI's! One of them, #1237 had the green stripe, but no CITSV logo.

Also: spotted this Séguin bus today passing Vendôme metro. It appears to be the same type of bus that CIT Roussillon has:

GO RTC (MRC de l'Assomption) will be offering free service on August 1, 2 and 3 on all routes to those who print out coupons.

Info: http://www.rendezvousestival.com/questions-pratiques/acces-sur-le-site/

Direct link to free printable tickets: http://rendezvousestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Billets_autobus10X.pdf

Also: saw an ALP-45DP with 4 multilevels that had their destination signs set to "Direction Parc" laying over at CP Ballantyne. This is no doubt the Parc short turn run from St-Jerome. I am really having a hard time figuring out why the AMT would willingly make this train end its run at Parc. Perhaps CP is disallowing more trains on the Westmount Sub until the third track is done. Which would explain why construction of the third track has been underway for the past few months, andvwhy the project is moving along so rapidly.

Any news about the air conditioning pilot project they had going in two first gens?

Rode train 112 (the Hudson train) into town this morning. About 20 people including myself got on at Hudson. It was a six-car trainset, and the horns were used to clear the several unprotected crossings. This was my first time boarding a train here.

Some recent retirements:

CITVR

605309 - Nova RTS

624305 - Nova Classic

683303 - Tranny Classic

CITL

686214 - Tranny Classic

698214 - Tranny Classic

3016218 - Nova LFS ex-STM

3017216 - Nova LFS ex-STM

So both systems above have no classics left active

Have the Classics been coming out much in the past few months on either system?

Candiac trains were detouring via the North Jct Lead today midday. Detour caused a 10 minute delay.

This thread hasn't been updated since 2011, but the hybrids are still active. I saw 706 at Lionel-Groulx last week. 703 was on the 90 St-Jacques last week as well. And I remember seeing 701 within the last two months, also on the 90 St-Jacques.

That looks awful, are there proper crosswalks?

Time to stampede down to Ingersoll again.

I recall seeing that locomotive in Goderich many years ago in its RailLink livery.

I have recently taken notice of the new generation of metro maps in the cars, which now make mention of the OACI addition to Square-Victoria. The signage has not yet changed at platform level. I wonder what they will do with the Guimard entrance. I hope that they will leave it as-is.

The signage has changed, although I don't blame you if you missed it at the time you posted your message. They first changed one sign per platform. Then a few days later, they proceeded to change all the platform signage.

and last but not least 31-141 with bike rack BUT not yet in function

This whole bike rack business with the STM is such BS. They are placed on random routes and thus doomed to get that little red sticker by drivers who don't want to deal with them. There was virtually no PR campaign about them. And even if they had done a bit of PR to say that people could use them on the 715, 769, 34 or the Ahuntsic routes, no one would use them on those lines anyways. What a huge STM FAIL!

There is no way in hell the STM is gonna start buying buses from China anyways so no need to worry about BYD quality.

new lease on life for ex AMT GP9 http://www.railpictu...=473010&nseq=45

Neat!! Thanks for sharing.

Indeed. With metro station entrances for both orange and green lines one block away from René-Lévesque, either north or south, you are never too far from an east-west transit link. If it is a bus that you need, grab any pass (daily, tri-daily, weekend, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, four-month and Train-Bus-Metro metropolitan passes ― no tickets, though) and hop on the 747 at any time of the day and night. René-Lévesques also sees a large amount of night routes, surpassed by few other streets in Montréal.

Also worth mentioning the 15 only starts at 9am.

Probably a question of space for idle vehicles, although I agree they could have sent routes 30/715/747 stops on the southeast corner of Berri/Sainte-Catherine.

Also mainly so that they can continue straight on Ste-Catherine St. direction métro Papineau.

Presumably the 99 will run via the Promenades every day?

That would be good, I have found service to/from Longueuil to the Promenades to be deficient (except for riders with a CITVR-compatible pass).

I am curious to see how packed these buses will be. Sounds like the service will be top notch, frankly. The metro regularly runs at a 10-minute frequency on weekends. The buses will be every 3-4 minutes...

At a recent public meeting, STM vice president Marvin Rotrand declared articulated buses wouldn't be able to turn around at Elmhurst Terminus. This is apparently stalling the integration of these buses onto the 105 route.

Sounds like bs to me! With all due respect, this wouldn't be the first time this councillor has made up facts. Can anyone confirm/deny that the artics would not be able to take the curve?