Transit / Transport collectif
-
Election signs: prenez la ligne orange
While SpacingMontreal doesn’t officially endorse any particular political party during elections, we do, however, often focus on election signs when...
By Chris Erb -
22 septembre : En ville sans ma voiture !
Whether it’s something to plan for or something to plan around, car-free day is returning for a 6th edition in Montreal, on Monday September 22nd...
By Cédric Sam -
How much private involvement in our transit?
Yesterday, La Presse revealed that the Agence métropolitaine de transport has awarded a private company a contract to operate two “luxury”...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Get your bus schedules on the fly
Students will start getting their Opus cards soon, but for those who have snapped up Apple’s iPhone, perhaps from the shiny new Apple Store on Ste...
By Christopher DeWolf -
The Gazette wants your transit complaints
The Gazette wants to hear you complain about public transit. Oops, sorry — I mean it wants you to ask intelligent questions about public transit...
By Christopher DeWolf -
‘Transit freak’ stole Dade buses for kicks
Here’s an odd little story from Florida. On June 1st, an 18-year-old transit fan, James Harris, walked straight past security guards at the...
By Julie Fournier -
Photo du jour: TV in the metro
Lionel-Groulx station, June 14, 2008
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Odd graffiti
Atwater metro, June 14, 2008
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Mountain tram
Before the construction of the voie Camillien-Houde and Remembrance Road on the mountain in the 1960s, the quickest way to get up was by tramway. For...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Cards, tokens and chips
The STM is slowly rolling out new transit cards that will replace the CAM and bus/metro transfer tickets in the course of the year to follow. I have not...
By Cédric Sam -
Trouve mon nom
La ville de Montréal organise un concours pour trouver le nom de son futur service de vélo libre-service. Le concours est ouvert à tous et durera...
By Thomas-Bernard Kenniff -
In Laval, cheap transit on smog days
Laval might be a postwar car-oriented suburb like any other, but the arrival of the metro last year seems to to have sparked a shift in thinking. Public...
By Christopher DeWolf