{"id":3043,"date":"2008-04-23T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/04\/23\/montreal-monday-new-metro-stations-smart-cards-and-shikumen\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T19:23:05","slug":"montreal-monday-new-metro-stations-smart-cards-and-shikumen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/04\/23\/montreal-monday-new-metro-stations-smart-cards-and-shikumen\/","title":{"rendered":"Montr\u00e9al Monday: new metro stations, smart cards, and shikumen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/04\/stm.jpg\" title=\"stm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/04\/stm.jpg\" alt=\"stm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Each Monday (but this week it&#8217;s Wednesday), Spacing brings you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/\"><em>Spacing Montr&eacute;al<\/em><\/a><em>. We&#8217;ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in <st1 w:st=\"on\"><\/st1><st1 w:st=\"on\">Toronto<\/st1>.<o><\/o><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><o><\/o><\/em>Montr&eacute;al&#8217;s STM announces that <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/04\/19\/two-new-metro-stations-by-2013\/\">two new metro stations<\/a> will be added to the transit line by 2013.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span>With the launch of <\/span>Montr&eacute;al&#8217;s new transit smart card, Christopher DeWolf reflects on the name of the new service in <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/04\/21\/meet-opus-your-new-smart-card\/\">Meet Opus, your new smart card<\/a>. While Pamela Shapiro examines the flaws with this new system in <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/04\/21\/meet-opus-smart-card-launch-part-ii\/\">Meet Opus: smart card &#8220;launch&#8221; part II<\/a>.  Some lessons for Toronto?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><o><\/o>The discovery of the shikumen, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/04\/19\/cite-bourgogne\/\">Cit&eacute; <st1 w:st=\"on\">Bourgogne<\/st1><\/a>, a distinctively <st1 w:st=\"on\"><\/st1><st1 w:st=\"on\">Shanghai<\/st1> style of housing developed during the Taiping Rebellion to house refugees, offers an interesting look at the integration of the public and private in one space.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o><\/o><em>photo: passengers waiting for the metro in 1966; courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stm.info\/English\/en-bref\/a-berri.htm\">STM<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Monday (but this week it&#8217;s Wednesday), Spacing brings you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montr&eacute;al. We&#8217;ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto. Montr&eacute;al&#8217;s STM announces that two new metro stations will be added to the transit line<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/04\/23\/montreal-monday-new-metro-stations-smart-cards-and-shikumen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Montr\u00e9al Monday: new metro stations, smart cards, and shikumen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4049,"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":[14],"tags":[38,19],"class_list":["post-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spacing","tag-montreal","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Montr\u00e9al Monday: new metro stations, smart cards, and shikumen - 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\/2008\/04\/23\/montreal-monday-new-metro-stations-smart-cards-and-shikumen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Montr\u00e9al Monday: new metro stations, smart cards, and shikumen - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Each Monday (but this week it&#8217;s Wednesday), Spacing brings you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montr&eacute;al. 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