Transit / Transport collectif

Photo du Jour – Métro Saint-Henri

The inevitable failure of the 515

Last summer, the STM introduced the 515 bus route to little fanfare.  The route, which is supposed to be a precursor to a promised tramway, makes a loop...

Photo du Jour – Public Transit Plaque

Plaque at Berri-UQAM metro station commemorating the inauguration of Montreal’s public transit system in 1861 and the metro in 1966. According to an...

Ottawa transit strike brings city to a standstill

EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing asked Ottawa resident and University of Ottawa geography student David McClelland to give Spacing Montreal readers a...

EXCLUSIVE: STM Shuts Down Municipal Shuttle to Metro

Shuttle bus owned and operated by the town of Montréal-Est. Photo courtesy of Montréal-Est Town Hall. Backed by a law that grants them a public transit...

Elevator in subway

The Program to equip Montreal’s metro stations with elevators is now underway. What originally started in the new stations in Laval is being brought...

The silver lining of recession

 A completely unrelated picture, from Luc at Montreal Daily Photo The likelihood of this worldwide recession simply blowing over Canada appears to be a...

Un tramway rue Sainte-Catherine ?

Comme en font foi ces photos prises sur la rue Sainte-Catherine, les rails de l’ancien tramway de Montréal n’ont pas tout à fait été rayés de...

“As a second car, consider a duplex”

Despite a whole lot of urban residential development projects lately, Montreal is still losing about 20,000 young people to the surrounding suburbs each...

Subway trains become office space

If you find yourself in London, England anytime soon, you may want to check out the work of the Village Underground in the Shoreditch neighbourhood. They...

Mapping the Commute: Income and Driving to work

In the spirit of Monday’s car-free day, this post asks the question: are those who earn higher incomes more likely to drive to work?  Using 2006 Canadian...

Images of a Car-Free Future

There has been much criticism of the City’s and the AMT’s half-hearted ‘journée sans voiture’ which took place Monday. Perhaps...