{"id":1649,"date":"2007-03-15T01:31:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T05:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2013-12-03T13:17:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T18:17:20","slug":"montreal-makes-top-11-virgin-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/15\/montreal-makes-top-11-virgin-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal makes top 11 Virgin list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/16\/88366681_e3ad66e942.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgin-vacations.com\/site_vv\/11-top-underground-transit-systems-in-the-world.asp\">Virgin Vacations<\/a>, of all places, has a list of the 11 (?) best subway systems in the world. It&#8217;s a relatively arbitrary list, but that doesn&#8217;t make it any less fun to read. They include a selection of good pictures and YouTube vidoes of most of the systems they mention, as well as a handful of fun facts (Moscow is the fastest worldwide system at 120km\/h, etc.). Toronto isn&#8217;t on the list of course, but Montreal is. This is always the case. The Metro in our sister city is such a crappy ride: crazy long waits between trains, super loud and cramped cars that sound like you&#8217;re in a jet turbine, a system that closes too early, and no air conditioning making for sweaty rides in the summer. Yet they make everybody&#8217;s favorite subway list (mine included) because the whole thing is so dead sexy. The aesthetics of the system can forgive so much.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/58\/178152601_99762c256f.jpg?v=1152073075\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Via Rail is currently running ads for cheap train tickets up to Montreal on the television that play over and over, keeping Montreal on the mind. In Dublin on the weekend that city was in an Arcade Fire frenzy (they had recently played two shows that sold out in record time). When I told people I was from Toronto, they often mentioned Arcade Fire, and it felt like it was OK to take a little credit. Outside of Canada, it&#8217;s alright to consider Toronto and Montreal sort of the same place &#8212; a <em>&#8220;Monronto<\/em>.&#8221; All it takes is a few pictures of the Montreal Metro to create an urgent desire to visit that city again, and soon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Top photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58452931@N00\/\">F-i-L<\/a>, bottom by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/flowizm\/\">Flowizm<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Vacations, of all places, has a list of the 11 (?) best subway systems in the world. It&#8217;s a relatively arbitrary list, but that doesn&#8217;t make it any less fun to read. They include a selection of good pictures and YouTube vidoes of most of the systems they mention, as well as a handful<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/15\/montreal-makes-top-11-virgin-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Montreal makes top 11 Virgin list&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5008,457,4903,3467,38,2829,21,754,19,3407],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transit","tag-arcade-fire","tag-canada","tag-dublin","tag-edward-keenan","tag-montreal","tag-moscow","tag-other-cities","tag-subway-systems","tag-toronto","tag-youtube"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Montreal makes top 11 Virgin list - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/15\/montreal-makes-top-11-virgin-list\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Montreal makes top 11 Virgin list - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Virgin Vacations, of all places, has a list of the 11 (?) best subway systems in the world. 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