Transit / Transport collectif
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Tous Azi-what?
If you’re a bus rider in Montreal you’ve probably used Tous Azimuts, the STM’s interactive trip planner. Though it’s a little...
By Julie Fournier -
All about Opus
You read about my thoughts on Montreal’s new smart card, Opus, when it was officially launched in April. Now you can read my article in the Gazette...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Getting around town: recent transport news
The air’s getting worse and it’s because the number of Montrealers who are driving is growing faster than those who use public transit...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Inside the world of the transit fan
I’m a fan of transit but I could never honestly call myself a transit fan. Even though I am interested in the design, sociology, history and culture...
By Christopher DeWolf -
A Beijing Subway interchange station at rush hour
BEIJING, CHINA — One of the bizarre things with the Beijing Subway‘s interchange stations, like Xizhimen (西直门) in the northwest of central Beijing...
By Cédric Sam -
Metro party tomorrow night
Three McGill students will be celebrating their birthdays and the end of the school term with a metro party tomorrow night. Guests are asked to bring...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Meet Opus: smart card “launch” part II
The new smart card is being launched today…but may not be available until September. Although the Gazette published an article about the launch with...
By Pamela Shapiro -
Meet Opus, your new smart card
Maybe it’s just me, but when I think of Opus, it’s the neurotic, herring-addicted penguin from the Bloom County comic strip that comes to...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Two new metro stations by 2013
After 20 years of stagnation, the metro is back in an expansionist mode: two new stations will be added to the system by 2013, joining the three new...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Smart card shenanigans: Date of launch still unclear
Photo by Cedric Sam
By Pamela Shapiro -
The great fare evasion scandal!
The Journal de Montréal wouldn’t be a tabloid if it didn’t like to plunge head-first into the murky waters of sensationalism. Its attempts to...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Honking for the Habs
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPnj2r1Eu0s[/youtube] Thanks to Fagstein (another worthy candidate for Best Blog in the 2008 BOMs, by the way) for...
By Christopher DeWolf