You're so lucky that your parents are into this kind of thing like you! my parents are very different so it was nice seeing that you're all interested in the same things. great video!
I am from Montreal and accents are not important ... we like people from Boston in english or french or a mix .... thanks for your video and passion ... beautiful family
If my sense of pitch is correct, that door chime is F#-B-F#, which has the same intervalic relationship to the opening of Lucy in the Sky (5-1-5), but in B major instead of Lucy's A major (notes would be E-A-E) Interestingly enough, it also appears on quite a few renditions of Rainbow Road in the Mario Kart franchise, as well as Arron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. It's a quite common motif so it appears in many other places I haven't mentioned
Interesting, I just realized it's about a semitone higher on the Azur trains. On the original MR-73 it's F-Bb-F. Fun fact: there are actually 5 notes being played as the MR-73 trains depart. In certain circumstances (and on the prototype Jeumont trains which have been retired) you can hear all 5, but usually only the last 3 are audible.
this probably a little too late for you to see this, but the « bonheur d’occasion » written on the st-henri metro station wall is a reference to a famous book of the same name which takes place in the neighborhood, though it was set during the second world war. the book is seen as a pioneer in québécois littérature, as it is a departure of the rural pov that was dominating the artistic scene and imposed by the catholique church at the time (look up « idéologie de la survivance » if you would like to know more) . also, the book was written by a woman, making it a feminist success story of it’s time as well. lovely video!
@Miles In Transit - The Yellow Line was designed to bring commuters in from the south shore AND Jean-Drapeau station was where Expo 67 was located which is why the Metro was built in 1966 by Mayor Jean Drapeau. The Montreal 'underground' shopping areas are very busy in the winter.
Hello, a few technical aspects here. The tunnels have slopes in case there's flooding : water floods the tunnels first and people in the stations have more time to escape or take swimming lessons. And it also helps the trains accelerate and brake. The rubber tyres are widely used in France. Back in the days, they would avoid slipping and make less noise. But steel wheel technology has greatly improved since then, so rubber tyres are barely used outside of the french-speaking world, except for light metro's (VAL system, people movers).
@@dubongros3108 of course they are used somewhere, "barely" doesn't mean "never", but except for a few cities - out of the so many cities with metro systems throughout the world - the rubber tyres are only used for peoplemovers at airports ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-tyred_metro )
Tell your folks that door closing chime is an homage to the original Metro cars that make the sound when they start up. (And yes, also like "Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds".) The "dou dou dou" originates from the sound of the acceleration of the MR-73 . They actually had a contest I believe, and that was the winning sound.
@@MilesinTransit yeah although nowadays since most trains are not the old ones you might not notice it at first, back in the days in the original ones (MR-63) there was 2 elements that had prototype engine for the MR-73 and the acceleration sound on these were VERY loud you could hear it well even from the inside of the train. Here's a short video showing that off : th-cam.com/video/--okII6RzTw/w-d-xo.html
Montreal in winter: about 50 years ago, my college friend Bob and I went to Montreal on our winter break, hoping to see snow. We went to college in Glassboro, in southern New Jersey, where snow happens but not that often. First we visited family in Massachusetts, going there by Amtrak. It was cold in Boston (around 10 F some days) but no snow. Then we took a bus to Montreal, where we stayed in a youth hostel for a few days and finally saw a little snow. Then to New York on the Montrealer, and by commuter train (I don't think it was called NJ Transit yet) to my family's house in New Jersey. We arrived in New York Penn Station with just enough Canadian money, which we had to exchange, to ride the commuter train.
Love those tones and the audio announcements. Beautiful design to those stations. Reminds of Lyon metro stations (they even pump perfume into the Lyon metro so it smells nice). Thanks for the vid.
It's the same lady that makes the recording for... 10-20 years since , after research she has the one that comes out the clearest from a speaker in a loud underground space.
This sound before the door closes is actually the exact replica of the the sound the old trains were making when leaving a station. In order to prevent the tires to slip when the train was leaving the station, the trains were equipped with eletrical condensers, which were preventing too much power to reach the engines, thus preventing wheel slip. The condensers were making that same exact sound.
When the Metro operated during Expo 67 they posted animations, like thumb books, on the subway walls between some of the stations. Riders were treated to these short cartoons while riding in the tunnels. I've never seen it done anywhere else.
There are 2 spots on Vancouver’s Expo Line which have those flipbook-like ads. One being on the Stadium-Chinatown to Granville stretch and the other being between Waterfront and Burrard. It’s a neat lil’ feature I suppose.
Just discovered your channel (thanks alan fisher) and its great! Being quite familiar with montreal, I would just add a few things for this video: 8:09 There is indeed a cross platform transfer at Snowdon, however its not well set up to go downtown. the reason is that the blue line was supposed to be extended west of snowdon, and the people coming from the west would have an easy transfer. 8:22 Villa-Maria is cool! The benches are like this to indicate the exit, the colours are lighter on the side towards the exit. 12:40 Bonheur d'occasion is the title of a famous novel by french canadian author Gabrielle Roy, which is set in St-Henri. The novel was basically about the french speaking working class of montreal during the second world war. St-Henri is a historically poor neighborhood (slowly getting more gentrified), surrounded by industry, railways and freeways, so it was quite fitting for the novel. 15:40 the 141 bus is the busiest in the city; its supposed to get replaced by an extension of the blue line which has been in the plans since... 1971. Seems to be happening now but dont hold your breath. 18:11 while Jean-Drapeau has been the least used in 2020 according to wikipedia, Georges-Vanier is usually the least used one. Jean drapeau serves an amusement park, the F1 race track, many festivals, a museum, the casino, all stuff that was closed during the pandemic hence why it lost a lot of ridership.
Thanks so much for checking it out and giving some context to the various mysteries in the video (especially Bonheur d'occasion, we were wondering about that)! Also I can't believe the 141 is the single busiest bus in the city - I can see why since it was so long and busy, but it's always surprising when a fairly mundane decision ("let's use this bus to get between the Blue and Green Lines") ends up being something more significant.
@@MilesinTransit I don't know about overall stats for being the least used, but as someone who lives in Longueuil and went by Jean-Drapeau almost every day for years, I would say it has short periods of intense activity and long periods of little to no activity. It's particular in that because it leads to a small island you really have a short list of reasons to ever go there, which is also the list of things on the island. Several of those things are major attractions... That are only open or popular part of the year, or are very event-based (shows, F1).
" Bonheur d'occasion " written on the wall of métro station Place St-Henri is the title of a novel written by Gabrielle Roy. The action takes place in the neighborhood of aformentioned métro station .
re Montréal Métro: on accessibility: there is a plane to render most stations accessible. For instance, the Berri station has undergone heavy renovations and its main station has elevators. And now, there is a project to make the line 4 accessible as well. And they will dig within and use tracks to carry the rocks away since there is no other way to get the rubble out. Unlike shallow systems such as New York, it isn't obvious how to place elevators in many stations and they require multiple shafts being dug through rocks (and wheelchai travel between elevators). As an example: at Lionel Groulx, they have elevator between fare gate level and the platform level 1. But that elevator could not go down to platform level 2 because there is an escalator from platform level 1 to platform level2 that prevents elevator going down ! So they had to create a separate elevator some distance away between platform level 1 and 2. (and separate elevator between fare gate level and ground level). There are multiple projects going on but die to covid, the work was slowed to a crawl.
Interesting, thanx for posting. I’ve used the metro when I was there but never explored all of it like you guys. I live in the U.S. in a place with no public transport. I really appreciate visiting places that have good public transportation
The daughter of the woman who recorded the announcements on the Montreal Metro is the woman who recorded the announcements for the new REM. Telling you where you are in Montreal is a family mother-daughter business.
re Montréal Métro The Berri-de-Montigny (original name) station was originally designed for only line 1 (green) and line 2 (orange). When it was confirmed Montréal would have international exhibition in 1967, line 3 was abandonned and line 4 was added to serve Île ste-hélene and Longueuil. the main Berri complex was cuit and cover over a very large area (Berri street and de Maisonneuve street as well as much of the Parc Gamelin). But the line 4 station was entirely tunelled with a connection to wherever they could at Berri because Berri had not been designed for it. The station platforms are actually one block away from Berri. Also at Berri, on east end of the green line, you can see the service tunnel connecting to green line. This tunnel goes south and connects with both the orange and yellow line. So this is how they get trains fron any line to the 1 heavy maintenance centre at Crémazie.
Hey! Great video! Glad you like Montréal métro, it's our pride for sure! The are really working hard to bring accessibility in every station! They are focusing on the most important one first, but they are adding elevetor in every station! Furthermore, they are planing to had screendoors on the stations to make it safer! They want to make the REM's station the standard for every station! You'll have to come back for that light méteon when it opens! Thanks for the video!
I grinned at several points in the video when you went to places I frequented commuting in Montreal. That A&W behind you at Cote Vertu? That's where I would grab a frosty mug of root beer and a Papa Burger and frites. I've used Snowdon more times than I can count going from the Orange to the Blue Line to get to my mother's condo in Outremont. And I grew up with those MR-73's that you rode on the Blue and Yellow lines. We only got those space age Azurs very recently. Hope you get a chance to ride the REM opening up between Gare Centrale and Brossard. It should be happening...sometime this year, should the stars align and enough virgins be sacrificed.
Just discovered recently and I love how deep you're geeking out on some stuff, cool to see how your parents seems to also be big geeks, you've been to a lot of places as a Montrealer I'd be like ''please don't look it's ugly AF here'', I live close to Honoré-Beaugrand station and I'm familiar with the the 141 and I was like, you're so far away from anywhere tourists are going, usually people will stick to visiting the downtown loop
I live in Montreal, I use these metro stations everyday and now I'm watching this in my day off. I don't know what I'm doing of my life. 🤣 By the way, nice video and nice family, bro!
! That duh-Duh-DUH was actually made by the MR-73 in its 5-phase acceleration phase, and the three last ones were audible (the first two we couldn't hear them, but they did make notes!). When the MR-73 were released on the lines, there were stickers saying (loosely translated) 'This metro sings!' This duh-dUh-DUH became so iconic to the Montreal Metro they kept it! And now it's iconic! In the later years they tried to include that very 'duh-dUH-DUH' sound as a warning sign door were to close, but it failed because of the voice and the very weird timing of the announcement! They removed the spoken renouncement and re-worked the duh-dUH-DUH to be in sync to close the doors! Now it's a staple! Also if anything, Monk IS pretty boring lol just convenience stores and specialty stores Also your Place-st-Henri part? On the wall it's (loosely translated) Occasional Happiness! A very influential book in Montreal's history! (fun fact, as a teenager I never realized the writing on the wall were there. I stopped once and wondered outloud to my friend (who didnt care) that i maybe remembered it. A middle age man, VERY respectfully approached me to explain the meaning between the saying. Told me a few stories about it and pointed me to a few books. All I've loved to this day. Lemme tell you, to this day there's an undeniable kinship there. Honestly? I think Montreal has one of the best subway stations, hell, some of the best public transport! Sure the buses are late in winter and we can show many funny videos of them slipping on the ice. But I love that metro. And who knows? Maybe you'd lose it too!
That's was an interesting factoid you mentioned about how the train ascends to the station stop and then descends back down after leaving the station. Makes me wonder if any other Metro systems do that.
As a Montrealer, there is nothing I'd like to do _less_ than ride the entire metro system and some buses - especially on a gloomy day. However, some of the stations (not just the standardized platforms-with-differing-graphic-design) are pretty cool, if you like architecture. If I could change one thing about Montreal transit, I'd insist on some padding, instead of those awful hard plastic seats. :^/ But yes, there are many good things about the system.
My phone ring is the Montreal Metro door chime. I don't live there anymore; I'm on the Westcoast, but I love hearing it. NEVER go to Montreal in the dead of winter, especially any place outside the downtown core neighbourhoods (like all the suburban ends of the lines).
On fares in montréal: since July 2022, there has been integration of fares between STL (Laval), STM (Montréal), EXO (commuter trains) and RTL (Longueuil) that allow for seamless transfers. So you could have purchased an AB ticket and taken Métro to Laval, and then taken the STL bus back to Côte Vertu (but those fares allow entering métro only once). With opening of REM next week, the same integration will happen, though they added some weird restrictions on what you can and can't load on the OPUS (plastic card). So cor 1 day, 3 day pass or single tickets for AB sozes you can no longer load them on a normal car and can only load them on the paper cards or get a special cars from a manned ticket office/booth in métro. The problem is with the logic in selecting whcih fare to activate on your card when you scan it. If you have A fares on a card as well as AB fares, when you scan it in the metro, it will activate the cheaper A fare which mean that activate ticket can't be use dto transfer to a service that needs AB. (the letters refer to fare zones). And BTW, to go to either Laval or Longueuil now requires an AB fare though the A fare will let you do it. (honour system - if you get caught you get fined). In the past, the normal STM fare worked to go to Laval or Longueuil, but needed the more expensive fare to return.
The butterfly door to get inside the station from street level are made this way mainly to let people easily overcome the air pressure differential when a train is a approaching or leaving the station
The yellow line was built for the 67 World's fair. LaRonde occupies the stop where the Expo was. LaRonde is a Six Flags property. The door closing sound is a homepage to the way the old cars used to start moving. 4:05 its not his fault that's how they talk in Boston. My Aunt lives in Oxford, MA and speaks like that. There is also a whole underground shopping district so people dont have to window shop in the cold Montreal Winters.
Where you transferred is not in Montreal. It's part of Laval, a completely different city. (Like the equivalent of taking NJ transit to get between connections in NYC)
REM will change the blue line ballgame with a 3 minute ride from Montpetit to McGill. Accessibility work is happening a lot now. Bonheur d'Occasion is a novel written in St-Henri. Cadillac was a French Canadian man originally. The blue line has old trains because they don't fit in the new garage. Building #1 is the head office of UQAM. It was University of Montreal until they moved to the mountain, than the province took it back for what you would call "Quebec State University". Laval is interesting they introduced phone payment just recently. The whole Montreal system is supposed to go contactless next year. We still have to enter a PIN in machines like you did 10 years ago
That stop with the "park" on it is where Expo 67 was held on that man made island in the middle of the St. Lawrence. If you had gotten off there you would have seen the American pavelion from that fair. Very historic. I road that line from Longueuil to the island a number of times when the fair was there and also after when "Man and his World" continued. I have ridden the entire line as well, but I didn't take any buses. I just went from one end to the other out and back on the same train.
duolingo is the worst for french, I'm fluent and couldn't even handle how many mistakes there is! she needs to work on her french too but she's doing good overall, understood most of it :p jean-drapeau is the least used in winter lol used a lot in summer because of six flags/la ronde and other stuff yah I have a physical condition (well a few but one that's relevant) and I wish they had escalators and elevators at each one, because the stairs are really hard for me... and I would not have the energy to do all that lol but this was cool! good job you guys :p have a good one too
i'm about 40% into the french course and fucking hate the redesign, stupid path thing. can you suggest a different app? i've used a bit of buusu, suppose i should go back to that
Montréal 😍 literally my favorite city in North America and the rubber tire metro definitely adds to more of a unique flair to this already unique city. Too bad you didn’t get off at Square Victoria OACI and introduce the little piece of Paris, the art-nouveau entryway of Parisian Métro right outside the station! Kudos to finding someone being able to speak French, well, to some extent, in this video but her accent needs some work 🤪 il faut que tu trouves quelqu’un(e) qui peut vraiment parler français plus couramment, sans accent américain 😂
Watching this while working on my quest to ride every bus route in Austin, feels appropriate, also super jealous of Montreal's fancy Metro sure beats this bumpy ass Rapid bus...
Interesting. Montreal seems to be such a northern city but by European standards it would be in the southern part of the continent. My homecity of Warsaw is situated some 1000-1100 km to the north. And Warsaw public transport seems to be maybe a little bit less developed but definitely cleaner, more modern and for instance all 34 metro stations are accessible for the disabled.
Fun fact : have you ever watched the TV series Hannibal or Mary kills people with the Montreal s actress Caroline Dhavernas ? Her mother , Michele Deslauriers ( actress ) is the voice in the Montreal s metro ... The new SKYTRAin REM under construction will get the voice of Caroline Dhavernas . These ladies have amazing voices and Caroline Dhavernas is an underrated beautiful international actress
A bit of history about Jean Drapeau and the Yellow Line: Jean Drapeau was mayor of Montreal from the 1950s through to the early 80s, and he is credited with developing the Metro, bringing Expo 67 and the 1976 summer Olympics to Montreal. 50 million people visited Expo 67 during 6 months, and the site of the World Exposition was on 2 islands and a peninsula in the St-Lawrence River, in front of downtown Montreal. Isle Ste Hélène was enlarged, Isle Notre-Dame (that hugs the St-Lawrence Seaway`s dike) was created from lanfill, and a breaker built across the western part of the port of Montreal to protect it from ice jams in the Spring was enlarged to create Cité-du-Havre, across from the Old Port. The Yellow Line was built for Expo 67. It is the only reason it exists. The transportation system for Expo 67 was fascinating, and had 4 modes: 1) the Metro (Yellow Line) 2) The Expo Express, an automated train that was a precursor to the REM 3) monorails 4) La balade, which was a kind of small road train pulled by tractors used in the giant parking lots to bring people to the Longueuil metro and the Expo Express terminus at Cité-du-Havre. On the South Shore, all around the Longueuil Metro station there were huge parking lots, where I suppose all the American tourists would park. They would then lake La Balade to the Longueuil metro station, then to Jean-Drapeu station (which has only been called that since the 1990s, at the time it was Ile-Ste-Hélène station). Then from the metro station they could take either the Expo Express or the monorail, but most likely the monorail. On the Montreal side of the river, the area between the Champlain and Victoria bridges was a huge parking lot, and near the Victoria bridge there was the western terminal of the Expo Express. There was also a bus terminal where city busses could drop people off. The Expo Express was a fully automated electric train, but had only 4 or 5 stations. The monorail network was a lot more dense, and even went through the US pavillion (the huge geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller).
For what Ol' Jean spent on The Big Owe, the Metro could have been extended all the way along Highway 20, the 401, and eventually linked up with the Bloor-Danforth into downtown Toronto.
@18:00 that island isnt just a park its a 6 flags theme park and resort it is also the same island as the one that holds the international fireworks compition. For a few days a year it is the most used station on the metro and 3rd in north amarica
Snowdon is and isn't cross platform transfer. Unlike Lionel Groulx, the vast majority of transfers require one to take stairs down to catch next train. From Blue line to downtown, you have to go down to get orange line, and from Orange line coming from downtown to take blue line, you need to go down as well.
OK there is an explanation for the sound " da da da ... " When we got the new trains for the 1976 extension , they had a system that would not give all the voltage at the start, the new system made a noise that became associated with a train on its way. As for the Beatle song , I give up
I just wanted to say that, as a Montrealer, never ever go to Laval unless you absolutely have to. And you probably ended up at Green Spot on Monk, best diner down in Ville Emard. Finally, Bonheur d'Occasion is a famous Quebec novel based in that neighborhood St Henri.
Ello, native montrealer here and i gotta admit that our bus companies are very... weird in montreal. We have 4 companies (Stm for montreal, stl for laval, rtl for longueuil and exo for the other suburbs) and they do not go well with each other. BTW the normal fare for a bus ride in the same zone is always 3.50$ but if you go from lets say laval to montreal is 5.25$ now P.S nobody likes laval its ugly asf lol
Many years ago, when we were kids, my brother and I were waiting for a Montreal city bus. The bus pulled up and I asked the driver, "Excusez-moi. monsieur. Allez-vous au Métro de Longueill?" The driver yelled at me, in English, "Longueill Metro? You gotta wait across the street, sir! Wait across the street!" The one English bus driver left in the city of Montreal. I couldn't believe it.
If you would get out of the trains you would see how biteaufull the Jean-talon station looks like, the sound as nothing to do with a song, the original métro us concerning the voltage ( 750 V ) system and the motors that drives the trains, it is done in a progressive way by increasing then decreasing the voltage ( something like that an employee would explain in a better way than me ) and the new trains does not create this sound, and people got used to it so they made a recording of the sound to recreate this sound. The problem with the métro visite is that you stay on the train, so you only see the docks. There is so much more to see.
The only song that I can think of that begins with those three notes is "Pure Imagination" by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
The sound of the doors closing in Montréal Métro is a tribute to the sound made by the previous generation of trains (MR73). The first batch of métros the MR63 had mechanical power chopper so when trains accelerated from station, it made tak tak tak sounds as power went from one setting to the next (and choppy acceleration). Prior to ordering the next batch in the 1970s, the CTCUM (now STM) evaluated different technologies and converted 1 MR63 train to have that new technology from the company Jeumont, hence that 1 train was the "jeumont" train. . ( youtube: Montreal Metro MR-63 Jeumont Set Action and you'll see where the sound came from). This technology was used for the building of the MR73 trains in mid 1970s and they still make that sound, although less pronounced. When the STM decided to have a chime to announce impending closure of doors, it ended up choosing that sound that had been so closely associated with the metro. The newer trains (MP10 / Azur) have totally different power system and don't make the sound. RThe chime is called "Dou Dou Dou" (do do do in english).
Crazy that Montreal's airport has no rail line! And a Yellow Line with 3 stations. Why?!! Almost as crazy as the Metro line I recently rode in Baku, Azerbaijan, that has only 2 stations!! 😲
To be fair the American Disability Act (ADA) was passed in 1990. Only 3 stations were built after 1990 those are the 3 stations in Laval between (i.e Cartier, De la Concorde and Montmorency who was accessible from the start in 2008. The problem STM has to retrofit elevator in the rest of the old 65 stations it's not easy to retrofit sometime they need to expropriate new site before installing the elevators. its cost money therefore they hope to complete the retrofit in 2038.
@@MilesinTransit The first metro Line Green Line 1 was built between 1962-1967 Frontenac to Atwater Orange Line 2 Crémazie to Bonaventure.Ther Red Line 3a and 3b . never build between Gare Centrale and Val-Royal (Cartierville) 3A) and Ahuntsic 3B North of Crémazie. It was the only line was Metal wheel on Metal Rail But since the Canadian National (CN) refuse to sell the Mount-Royal Tunnel Line 3 was never built. The Yellow Line 4 was build for the expo 1967 With 3 stations (Berri-de-Montigny => Berri-UQAM , Île-Sainte-Hélène => Jean-Drapeau and Longueuil => Longueuil-Université-de-Sherbrooke. After the extension to Longueuil , the Bureau de Transport Métropolitian (BTM) proposed to prolongate the Line 2 from Crémazie to Laval => Cartier (today) as the Line north Terminus. But the Mayor of Pont-VIau and Futur Mayor of Laval Jacques Tétrault refuse because they want to built the Garage where the Arena Cartier is built today making impossible to Prolongate past Cartier. He said if one day the Metro goes to île-Jésus (Laval) is for disserve it not asserve it. Because of the refusal they add only station Sauvé and the terminus at Henri-Bourassa. Laval would have to wait 40 years before having it's branch expansion in 2008. The first Metro expension was in the early 1970's because Montréal obtains the 1976 Summer Olympics they add two extension Frontenac to Honoré-Beaugrand and Atwater to Angrignon. A street opened because the tunnel collapse on the west branch changing plan of LaSalle station . The East branch opened in time for the olympic in 1976 but the West branch opened two years later in 1978.
@@MilesinTransit No it does not. It is a mistake many Canadians make because we know the US too well (I pity cops dealing with people who say they plead the fifth). In Ontario, we have the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA Act) which mandates an accessible Ontario by January 1st, 2025. I don't know what the Quebec legislation. For convenience, Canada typically has similar standards to the US, but we may be stricter. For example, AODA has that deadline, which the ADA does not have.
@@jacktattersall9457 You are right The American Disability act was born 1990 but we have to wait 2019 to have a Canadian Disability Act. They expected to be in full use only in 2040.
@@glaframb But there are provincial disability acts. Quebec has the ACT TO SECURE HANDICAPPED PERSONS IN THE EXERCISE OF THEIR RIGHTS WITH A VIEW TO ACHIEVING SOCIAL, SCHOOL AND WORKPLACE INTEGRATION (the English name is a mouthful), Ontario has AODA.
I skimmed the comments and didn't see anyone else mention it, so here's a Fun Fact: Montreal's subway cars are equipped with wood brake shoes. Seriously. Wood. Also, did you visit the subway "station" at 10880 Rue Basile-Routhier?
@@MilesinTransit the nondescript building at that address, in the middle of the park, is the entrance to STM's underground fire prevention training centre. Three retired subway cars are parked in a short stretch of double-track tunnel extending away from a station-like facility, in which a control room is located. Drivers are trained to report emergencies, evacuate pax, and manage small fires before they can grow in conflagrations while waiting for outside help to arrive. In the demonstration I saw during an APTA technical tour in 2014, the driver taking the training had to extinguish a flare with a fire hose to successfully complete the exercise.
You're so lucky that your parents are into this kind of thing like you! my parents are very different so it was nice seeing that you're all interested in the same things. great video!
Thank you!
I am surprised that you didn’t call this episode “Kilometres in Transit”…
Oh that’s a good one
If the French-Bostonian dialect isn’t a thing, it sure is now 😆
Isn’t Quebec French basically French in a Boston accent lol? If it’s not, I can imagine French spoken in a Boston-like accent in Woonsocket.
@@thefareplayer2254 it's more akin with the Maine accent.
@@thefareplayer2254 No, it is more French with a Southern Drawl 😀
I am from Montreal and accents are not important ... we like people from Boston in english or french or a mix .... thanks for your video and passion ... beautiful family
If my sense of pitch is correct, that door chime is F#-B-F#, which has the same intervalic relationship to the opening of Lucy in the Sky (5-1-5), but in B major instead of Lucy's A major (notes would be E-A-E)
Interestingly enough, it also appears on quite a few renditions of Rainbow Road in the Mario Kart franchise, as well as Arron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. It's a quite common motif so it appears in many other places I haven't mentioned
Jeremy commented first and got the dollar, but thank you for the additional info on these three notes!
Interesting, I just realized it's about a semitone higher on the Azur trains. On the original MR-73 it's F-Bb-F. Fun fact: there are actually 5 notes being played as the MR-73 trains depart. In certain circumstances (and on the prototype Jeumont trains which have been retired) you can hear all 5, but usually only the last 3 are audible.
The Jeumont is also on the old first generation Caracas Metro trains - Alstom S1 (they resemble MARTA CQ310/311s)
The door closing sound is meant to imitate the sound of the old trains accelerating out of the station.
@@MilesinTransit P.S i'm from montreal and the actual sound has nothing to do with the Beatles' song.
this probably a little too late for you to see this, but the « bonheur d’occasion » written on the st-henri metro station wall is a reference to a famous book of the same name which takes place in the neighborhood, though it was set during the second world war. the book is seen as a pioneer in québécois littérature, as it is a departure of the rural pov that was dominating the artistic scene and imposed by the catholique church at the time (look up « idéologie de la survivance » if you would like to know more) . also, the book was written by a woman, making it a feminist success story of it’s time as well. lovely video!
Thank you for the information and kind words!
I think the English title is "The Tin Flute".
@Miles In Transit - The Yellow Line was designed to bring commuters in from the south shore AND Jean-Drapeau station was where Expo 67 was located which is why the Metro was built in 1966 by Mayor Jean Drapeau.
The Montreal 'underground' shopping areas are very busy in the winter.
Hello, a few technical aspects here. The tunnels have slopes in case there's flooding : water floods the tunnels first and people in the stations have more time to escape or take swimming lessons. And it also helps the trains accelerate and brake.
The rubber tyres are widely used in France. Back in the days, they would avoid slipping and make less noise. But steel wheel technology has greatly improved since then, so rubber tyres are barely used outside of the french-speaking world, except for light metro's (VAL system, people movers).
No I have seen a French métro in Mexico city , one of the largest in the world , also in Santiago de Chili
@@dubongros3108 of course they are used somewhere, "barely" doesn't mean "never", but except for a few cities - out of the so many cities with metro systems throughout the world - the rubber tyres are only used for peoplemovers at airports ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-tyred_metro )
Rubber tires allow to go up steeper slopes.
@@stevevoyagelike the Lausanne Metro, which is one of the most unusual metro lines in the world, and the only one in Switzerland.
Tell your folks that door closing chime is an homage to the original Metro cars that make the sound when they start up. (And yes, also like "Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds".)
The "dou dou dou" originates from the sound of the acceleration of the MR-73 . They actually had a contest I believe, and that was the winning sound.
Yep! I actually just heard about this on the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast
Wow, that's a really neat fact! Thanks for sharing!
@@MilesinTransit yeah although nowadays since most trains are not the old ones you might not notice it at first, back in the days in the original ones (MR-63) there was 2 elements that had prototype engine for the MR-73 and the acceleration sound on these were VERY loud you could hear it well even from the inside of the train. Here's a short video showing that off : th-cam.com/video/--okII6RzTw/w-d-xo.html
It comes from Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man", theme from Expo 67 for which the first portion of the Metro was built.
@@Scrabbleship820 False.
The iconic door closing sound is actually the old trains motors spooling up
Montreal in winter: about 50 years ago, my college friend Bob and I went to Montreal on our winter break, hoping to see snow. We went to college in Glassboro, in southern New Jersey, where snow happens but not that often. First we visited family in Massachusetts, going there by Amtrak. It was cold in Boston (around 10 F some days) but no snow. Then we took a bus to Montreal, where we stayed in a youth hostel for a few days and finally saw a little snow. Then to New York on the Montrealer, and by commuter train (I don't think it was called NJ Transit yet) to my family's house in New Jersey. We arrived in New York Penn Station with just enough Canadian money, which we had to exchange, to ride the commuter train.
I would love to see you back in Montreal when the REM opens soon!
“Soon” that dang REM long awaited grand opening keeps getting pushed back
Love those tones and the audio announcements. Beautiful design to those stations. Reminds of Lyon metro stations (they even pump perfume into the Lyon metro so it smells nice). Thanks for the vid.
It's the same lady that makes the recording for... 10-20 years since , after research she has the one that comes out the clearest from a speaker in a loud underground space.
This sound before the door closes is actually the exact replica of the the sound the old trains were making when leaving a station. In order to prevent the tires to slip when the train was leaving the station, the trains were equipped with eletrical condensers, which were preventing too much power to reach the engines, thus preventing wheel slip. The condensers were making that same exact sound.
When the Metro operated during Expo 67 they posted animations, like thumb books, on the subway walls between some of the stations. Riders were treated to these short cartoons while riding in the tunnels. I've never seen it done anywhere else.
I've seen that elsewhere, but only for ads! Boston used to have them in a couple spots on the Red Line, for example.
There are 2 spots on Vancouver’s Expo Line which have those flipbook-like ads. One being on the Stadium-Chinatown to Granville stretch and the other being between Waterfront and Burrard. It’s a neat lil’ feature I suppose.
Very fun! It's been many years since I've been to Montreal. Have to get back there. Fun to have your parents in the video!
Honestly your dad pronounced most of the station names just as well as your translator.
So entertaining watching you and your parents experience Montreal together.
Thank you!
Your father’s accent! WINTAH TAIME
Just discovered your channel (thanks alan fisher) and its great! Being quite familiar with montreal, I would just add a few things for this video:
8:09 There is indeed a cross platform transfer at Snowdon, however its not well set up to go downtown. the reason is that the blue line was supposed to be extended west of snowdon, and the people coming from the west would have an easy transfer.
8:22 Villa-Maria is cool! The benches are like this to indicate the exit, the colours are lighter on the side towards the exit.
12:40 Bonheur d'occasion is the title of a famous novel by french canadian author Gabrielle Roy, which is set in St-Henri. The novel was basically about the french speaking working class of montreal during the second world war. St-Henri is a historically poor neighborhood (slowly getting more gentrified), surrounded by industry, railways and freeways, so it was quite fitting for the novel.
15:40 the 141 bus is the busiest in the city; its supposed to get replaced by an extension of the blue line which has been in the plans since... 1971. Seems to be happening now but dont hold your breath.
18:11 while Jean-Drapeau has been the least used in 2020 according to wikipedia, Georges-Vanier is usually the least used one. Jean drapeau serves an amusement park, the F1 race track, many festivals, a museum, the casino, all stuff that was closed during the pandemic hence why it lost a lot of ridership.
Thanks so much for checking it out and giving some context to the various mysteries in the video (especially Bonheur d'occasion, we were wondering about that)! Also I can't believe the 141 is the single busiest bus in the city - I can see why since it was so long and busy, but it's always surprising when a fairly mundane decision ("let's use this bus to get between the Blue and Green Lines") ends up being something more significant.
@@MilesinTransit I don't know about overall stats for being the least used, but as someone who lives in Longueuil and went by Jean-Drapeau almost every day for years, I would say it has short periods of intense activity and long periods of little to no activity. It's particular in that because it leads to a small island you really have a short list of reasons to ever go there, which is also the list of things on the island. Several of those things are major attractions... That are only open or popular part of the year, or are very event-based (shows, F1).
" Bonheur d'occasion " written on the wall of métro station Place St-Henri is the title of a novel written by Gabrielle Roy. The action takes place in the neighborhood of aformentioned métro station .
re Montréal Métro: on accessibility: there is a plane to render most stations accessible.
For instance, the Berri station has undergone heavy renovations and its main station has elevators. And now, there is a project to make the line 4 accessible as well. And they will dig within and use tracks to carry the rocks away since there is no other way to get the rubble out.
Unlike shallow systems such as New York, it isn't obvious how to place elevators in many stations and they require multiple shafts being dug through rocks (and wheelchai travel between elevators).
As an example: at Lionel Groulx, they have elevator between fare gate level and the platform level 1. But that elevator could not go down to platform level 2 because there is an escalator from platform level 1 to platform level2 that prevents elevator going down ! So they had to create a separate elevator some distance away between platform level 1 and 2. (and separate elevator between fare gate level and ground level).
There are multiple projects going on but die to covid, the work was slowed to a crawl.
Interesting, thanx for posting. I’ve used the metro when I was there but never explored all of it like you guys. I live in the U.S. in a place with no public transport. I really appreciate visiting places that have good public transportation
I think it's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds!
You got it, you're the first one!
The daughter of the woman who recorded the announcements on the Montreal Metro is the woman who recorded the announcements for the new REM. Telling you where you are in Montreal is a family mother-daughter business.
re Montréal Métro The Berri-de-Montigny (original name) station was originally designed for only line 1 (green) and line 2 (orange). When it was confirmed Montréal would have international exhibition in 1967, line 3 was abandonned and line 4 was added to serve Île ste-hélene and Longueuil. the main Berri complex was cuit and cover over a very large area (Berri street and de Maisonneuve street as well as much of the Parc Gamelin). But the line 4 station was entirely tunelled with a connection to wherever they could at Berri because Berri had not been designed for it. The station platforms are actually one block away from Berri. Also at Berri, on east end of the green line, you can see the service tunnel connecting to green line. This tunnel goes south and connects with both the orange and yellow line. So this is how they get trains fron any line to the 1 heavy maintenance centre at Crémazie.
Hey! Great video! Glad you like Montréal métro, it's our pride for sure! The are really working hard to bring accessibility in every station! They are focusing on the most important one first, but they are adding elevetor in every station! Furthermore, they are planing to had screendoors on the stations to make it safer! They want to make the REM's station the standard for every station! You'll have to come back for that light méteon when it opens!
Thanks for the video!
Fantastic that so many improvements are coming to Montreal's transit system! Thank you!
Station Montmorency is actually in Laval, which is an island north of Montreal. It's mostly grey and industrial. It's the New Jersey of Montreal's NYC
I grinned at several points in the video when you went to places I frequented commuting in Montreal. That A&W behind you at Cote Vertu? That's where I would grab a frosty mug of root beer and a Papa Burger and frites. I've used Snowdon more times than I can count going from the Orange to the Blue Line to get to my mother's condo in Outremont. And I grew up with those MR-73's that you rode on the Blue and Yellow lines. We only got those space age Azurs very recently.
Hope you get a chance to ride the REM opening up between Gare Centrale and Brossard. It should be happening...sometime this year, should the stars align and enough virgins be sacrificed.
Just discovered recently and I love how deep you're geeking out on some stuff, cool to see how your parents seems to also be big geeks, you've been to a lot of places as a Montrealer I'd be like ''please don't look it's ugly AF here'', I live close to Honoré-Beaugrand station and I'm familiar with the the 141 and I was like, you're so far away from anywhere tourists are going, usually people will stick to visiting the downtown loop
I live in Montreal, I use these metro stations everyday and now I'm watching this in my day off. I don't know what I'm doing of my life. 🤣
By the way, nice video and nice family, bro!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
@@MilesinTransit By the way, which Beatles' song is in the metro sound? 😅
As a Montrealer (born and raised) I can say the French pronunciation ain’t bad but the accent is 💀
but I gotta love your content man
Haha, thank you!
How'd you manage to do this 😂 nice video man I'll be watching it rn!
Didn’t realize the incline was for slow down and speed up. Thanks for the info
! That duh-Duh-DUH was actually made by the MR-73 in its 5-phase acceleration phase, and the three last ones were audible (the first two we couldn't hear them, but they did make notes!). When the MR-73 were released on the lines, there were stickers saying (loosely translated) 'This metro sings!'
This duh-dUh-DUH became so iconic to the Montreal Metro they kept it! And now it's iconic!
In the later years they tried to include that very 'duh-dUH-DUH' sound as a warning sign door were to close, but it failed because of the voice and the very weird timing of the announcement! They removed the spoken renouncement and re-worked the duh-dUH-DUH to be in sync to close the doors! Now it's a staple!
Also if anything, Monk IS pretty boring lol just convenience stores and specialty stores
Also your Place-st-Henri part? On the wall it's (loosely translated) Occasional Happiness! A very influential book in Montreal's history! (fun fact, as a teenager I never realized the writing on the wall were there. I stopped once and wondered outloud to my friend (who didnt care) that i maybe remembered it. A middle age man, VERY respectfully approached me to explain the meaning between the saying. Told me a few stories about it and pointed me to a few books. All I've loved to this day. Lemme tell you, to this day there's an undeniable kinship there.
Honestly? I think Montreal has one of the best subway stations, hell, some of the best public transport! Sure the buses are late in winter and we can show many funny videos of them slipping on the ice. But I love that metro.
And who knows? Maybe you'd lose it too!
That's was an interesting factoid you mentioned about how the train ascends to the station stop and then descends back down after leaving the station. Makes me wonder if any other Metro systems do that.
It's somewhat common on certain lines and systems
The door chime is the sound the engines of the old original trains were making when powering up.
As a Montrealer, there is nothing I'd like to do _less_ than ride the entire metro system and some buses - especially on a gloomy day. However, some of the stations (not just the standardized platforms-with-differing-graphic-design) are pretty cool, if you like architecture. If I could change one thing about Montreal transit, I'd insist on some padding, instead of those awful hard plastic seats. :^/ But yes, there are many good things about the system.
My phone ring is the Montreal Metro door chime. I don't live there anymore; I'm on the Westcoast, but I love hearing it. NEVER go to Montreal in the dead of winter, especially any place outside the downtown core neighbourhoods (like all the suburban ends of the lines).
On fares in montréal: since July 2022, there has been integration of fares between STL (Laval), STM (Montréal), EXO (commuter trains) and RTL (Longueuil) that allow for seamless transfers.
So you could have purchased an AB ticket and taken Métro to Laval, and then taken the STL bus back to Côte Vertu (but those fares allow entering métro only once). With opening of REM next week, the same integration will happen, though they added some weird restrictions on what you can and can't load on the OPUS (plastic card). So cor 1 day, 3 day pass or single tickets for AB sozes you can no longer load them on a normal car and can only load them on the paper cards or get a special cars from a manned ticket office/booth in métro. The problem is with the logic in selecting whcih fare to activate on your card when you scan it. If you have A fares on a card as well as AB fares, when you scan it in the metro, it will activate the cheaper A fare which mean that activate ticket can't be use dto transfer to a service that needs AB.
(the letters refer to fare zones).
And BTW, to go to either Laval or Longueuil now requires an AB fare though the A fare will let you do it. (honour system - if you get caught you get fined). In the past, the normal STM fare worked to go to Laval or Longueuil, but needed the more expensive fare to return.
The butterfly door to get inside the station from street level are made this way mainly to let people easily overcome the air pressure differential when a train is a approaching or leaving the station
Fun Fact: Every year in June, for exactly 3 days, Jean Drapeau becomes the most used station in all of Montreal!
The yellow line was built for the 67 World's fair. LaRonde occupies the stop where the Expo was. LaRonde is a Six Flags property. The door closing sound is a homepage to the way the old cars used to start moving. 4:05 its not his fault that's how they talk in Boston. My Aunt lives in Oxford, MA and speaks like that. There is also a whole underground shopping district so people dont have to window shop in the cold Montreal Winters.
La Ronde was there during Expo. Expo was all over the island
Where you transferred is not in Montreal. It's part of Laval, a completely different city. (Like the equivalent of taking NJ transit to get between connections in NYC)
To all those who don’t know, the door sound is “fanfare for the common man” by Copland.
On your last bit about the accessibility of the Metro, it is now at 25/68 stations are accessible and they are putting a lot of effort into that!
3:08 that sound is the acceleration tone for the older trains in Montreal metro
The door chimes are based on the MR-73 trains sound at departure.
REM will change the blue line ballgame with a 3 minute ride from Montpetit to McGill. Accessibility work is happening a lot now. Bonheur d'Occasion is a novel written in St-Henri. Cadillac was a French Canadian man originally. The blue line has old trains because they don't fit in the new garage. Building #1 is the head office of UQAM. It was University of Montreal until they moved to the mountain, than the province took it back for what you would call "Quebec State University". Laval is interesting they introduced phone payment just recently. The whole Montreal system is supposed to go contactless next year. We still have to enter a PIN in machines like you did 10 years ago
We need more videos with parents!!!
Great video! How does this not have more views though? 🙃🤔🧐
Thank you so much!
That stop with the "park" on it is where Expo 67 was held on that man made island in the middle of the St. Lawrence. If you had gotten off there you would have seen the American pavelion from that fair. Very historic. I road that line from Longueuil to the island a number of times when the fair was there and also after when "Man and his World" continued. I have ridden the entire line as well, but I didn't take any buses. I just went from one end to the other out and back on the same train.
For accessibility , the Stm has a system of minibuses with that you can call and go door to door
Having to call for a paratransit service a day in advance versus just hopping on the Metro is a big difference!
duolingo is the worst for french, I'm fluent and couldn't even handle how many mistakes there is!
she needs to work on her french too but she's doing good overall, understood most of it :p
jean-drapeau is the least used in winter lol used a lot in summer because of six flags/la ronde and other stuff
yah I have a physical condition (well a few but one that's relevant) and I wish they had escalators and elevators at each one, because the stairs are really hard for me...
and I would not have the energy to do all that lol but this was cool! good job you guys :p
have a good one too
i'm about 40% into the french course and fucking hate the redesign, stupid path thing. can you suggest a different app? i've used a bit of buusu, suppose i should go back to that
Montréal 😍 literally my favorite city in North America and the rubber tire metro definitely adds to more of a unique flair to this already unique city. Too bad you didn’t get off at Square Victoria OACI and introduce the little piece of Paris, the art-nouveau entryway of Parisian Métro right outside the station!
Kudos to finding someone being able to speak French, well, to some extent, in this video but her accent needs some work 🤪 il faut que tu trouves quelqu’un(e) qui peut vraiment parler français plus couramment, sans accent américain 😂
Watching this while working on my quest to ride every bus route in Austin, feels appropriate, also super jealous of Montreal's fancy Metro sure beats this bumpy ass Rapid bus...
Every bus route in Austin is a far more impressive feat!
Interesting. Montreal seems to be such a northern city but by European standards it would be in the southern part of the continent. My homecity of Warsaw is situated some 1000-1100 km to the north. And Warsaw public transport seems to be maybe a little bit less developed but definitely cleaner, more modern and for instance all 34 metro stations are accessible for the disabled.
It always blows my mind how much further north Europe is compared to the US! Like how Rome is further north than New York City, for example.
@@MilesinTransitgotta love the gulfstream
Hope you enjoyed the subway in my hometown. Your parents seem cool, lots of personality for both.
Fun fact : have you ever watched the TV series Hannibal or Mary kills people with the Montreal s actress Caroline Dhavernas ? Her mother , Michele Deslauriers ( actress ) is the voice in the Montreal s metro ... The new SKYTRAin REM under construction will get the voice of Caroline Dhavernas . These ladies have amazing voices and Caroline Dhavernas is an underrated beautiful international actress
Wow, I haven't heard of her, but that's a really cool fact!
Now thats some interesting stuff.
A bit of history about Jean Drapeau and the Yellow Line:
Jean Drapeau was mayor of Montreal from the 1950s through to the early 80s, and he is credited with developing the Metro, bringing Expo 67 and the 1976 summer Olympics to Montreal.
50 million people visited Expo 67 during 6 months, and the site of the World Exposition was on 2 islands and a peninsula in the St-Lawrence River, in front of downtown Montreal. Isle Ste Hélène was enlarged, Isle Notre-Dame (that hugs the St-Lawrence Seaway`s dike) was created from lanfill, and a breaker built across the western part of the port of Montreal to protect it from ice jams in the Spring was enlarged to create Cité-du-Havre, across from the Old Port.
The Yellow Line was built for Expo 67. It is the only reason it exists.
The transportation system for Expo 67 was fascinating, and had 4 modes:
1) the Metro (Yellow Line)
2) The Expo Express, an automated train that was a precursor to the REM
3) monorails
4) La balade, which was a kind of small road train pulled by tractors used in the giant parking lots to bring people to the Longueuil metro and the Expo Express terminus at Cité-du-Havre.
On the South Shore, all around the Longueuil Metro station there were huge parking lots, where I suppose all the American tourists would park. They would then lake La Balade to the Longueuil metro station, then to Jean-Drapeu station (which has only been called that since the 1990s, at the time it was Ile-Ste-Hélène station). Then from the metro station they could take either the Expo Express or the monorail, but most likely the monorail.
On the Montreal side of the river, the area between the Champlain and Victoria bridges was a huge parking lot, and near the Victoria bridge there was the western terminal of the Expo Express. There was also a bus terminal where city busses could drop people off. The Expo Express was a fully automated electric train, but had only 4 or 5 stations. The monorail network was a lot more dense, and even went through the US pavillion (the huge geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller).
For what Ol' Jean spent on The Big Owe, the Metro could have been extended all the way along Highway 20, the 401, and eventually linked up with the Bloor-Danforth into downtown Toronto.
The real least used station of the montreal metro is George Vanier.
@18:00 that island isnt just a park its a 6 flags theme park and resort it is also the same island as the one that holds the international fireworks compition. For a few days a year it is the most used station on the metro and 3rd in north amarica
That's super cool!
La Ronde! I should go there while I still have my grandfathered six flags membership
It's definitely not A Day in the Life, but what a day in your life this was!
Love the enthusiast haha! I actually miss Mtl’s metro! Thanks for the memory.
As a Montreal resident thank you for pointing out how slopey our metro stations are and thank you for letting them saving face so graciously.
1:15 Locally we call them butterfly doors ^^
4:52, 17:32 Nice to know someone still makes maps printed on paper 🙂
Snowdon is and isn't cross platform transfer. Unlike Lionel Groulx, the vast majority of transfers require one to take stairs down to catch next train.
From Blue line to downtown, you have to go down to get orange line, and from Orange line coming from downtown to take blue line, you need to go down as well.
OK there is an explanation for the sound " da da da ... " When we got the new trains for the 1976 extension , they had a system that would not give all the voltage at the start, the new system made a noise that became associated with a train on its way. As for the Beatle song , I give up
I just wanted to say that, as a Montrealer, never ever go to Laval unless you absolutely have to. And you probably ended up at Green Spot on Monk, best diner down in Ville Emard. Finally, Bonheur d'Occasion is a famous Quebec novel based in that neighborhood St Henri.
Mordechai Richler scarred me for life when he wrote "Jacob Too-Too Meets The Hooded Fang."
Ello, native montrealer here and i gotta admit that our bus companies are very... weird in montreal. We have 4 companies (Stm for montreal, stl for laval, rtl for longueuil and exo for the other suburbs) and they do not go well with each other. BTW the normal fare for a bus ride in the same zone is always 3.50$ but if you go from lets say laval to montreal is 5.25$ now
P.S nobody likes laval its ugly asf lol
The rubber tires are used for grip on the steeper sections but for speed the tire guideway drops away from the tires!
"haught tension" is french for "high voltage".
Accessibility is definitely a concern for me since I use a walker, so thanks for the warning
the Montreal metro is one of my favorite systems in the world
the French girl was a nice touch
Many years ago, when we were kids, my brother and I were waiting for a Montreal city bus. The bus pulled up and I asked the driver, "Excusez-moi. monsieur. Allez-vous au Métro de Longueill?"
The driver yelled at me, in English, "Longueill Metro? You gotta wait across the street, sir! Wait across the street!"
The one English bus driver left in the city of Montreal. I couldn't believe it.
Incredible
If you would get out of the trains you would see how biteaufull the Jean-talon station looks like, the sound as nothing to do with a song, the original métro us concerning the voltage ( 750 V ) system and the motors that drives the trains, it is done in a progressive way by increasing then decreasing the voltage ( something like that an employee would explain in a better way than me ) and the new trains does not create this sound, and people got used to it so they made a recording of the sound to recreate this sound.
The problem with the métro visite is that you stay on the train, so you only see the docks. There is so much more to see.
So glad for the translation! 😄
The only song that I can think of that begins with those three notes is "Pure Imagination" by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the door chime isn't from the beatle's song but the sound the old metro sets did when accelerating out of a station :)
Yes, this is true!
The sound of the doors closing in Montréal Métro is a tribute to the sound made by the previous generation of trains (MR73). The first batch of métros the MR63 had mechanical power chopper so when trains accelerated from station, it made tak tak tak sounds as power went from one setting to the next (and choppy acceleration). Prior to ordering the next batch in the 1970s, the CTCUM (now STM) evaluated different technologies and converted 1 MR63 train to have that new technology from the company Jeumont, hence that 1 train was the "jeumont" train. . ( youtube: Montreal Metro MR-63 Jeumont Set Action and you'll see where the sound came from). This technology was used for the building of the MR73 trains in mid 1970s and they still make that sound, although less pronounced.
When the STM decided to have a chime to announce impending closure of doors, it ended up choosing that sound that had been so closely associated with the metro. The newer trains (MP10 / Azur) have totally different power system and don't make the sound.
RThe chime is called "Dou Dou Dou" (do do do in english).
Your parents enthusiasm was gorgeous.
I love the automatically generated subtitles! 14:49 "Now we continue up to Zombie Show". Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa what's that :-D
In my life by The Beatles? btw, that do-do-do sound on the older trains is as a result of the electrical motor receiving current as it starts up.
I lived in Montreal for two years and it made me fall in love with public transit
It's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds 😄
Such a great city, totally underrated
when you say "iconic" your Boston accent comes through
Really! That's an interesting one!
I would do anything to go back. Miss the smoked meat and poutine at McDonald's.
Crazy that Montreal's airport has no rail line! And a Yellow Line with 3 stations. Why?!! Almost as crazy as the Metro line I recently rode in Baku, Azerbaijan, that has only 2 stations!! 😲
A new public transport , fully automated SKYTRAIN REM is under construction to connect the airport to downtown
Montreal Winters used to be even worse when I was a kid.
I love your dad’s accent! That Boston accent is starting to disappear more and more and makes me sad.
Miles's mother was right in the pronounciation of Montmorency.
And Henri Bourassa, too!
translator wasnt that much better at french pronunciation tbh lmao
12:42 what's french for "now that's a fun fact"
Damn! Is this Montreal's weather in April?
In Montreal, when it's June and you look out your kitchen window and see a robin eating out of the bird feeder: "Hmmm! Must be Spring!"
18:13 La Ronde is operated by Six Flags
1:08 when your in foreign language and you give up on trying to say the word
To be fair the American Disability Act (ADA) was passed in 1990. Only 3 stations were built after 1990 those are the 3 stations in Laval between (i.e Cartier, De la Concorde and Montmorency who was accessible from the start in 2008. The problem STM has to retrofit elevator in the rest of the old 65 stations it's not easy to retrofit sometime they need to expropriate new site before installing the elevators. its cost money therefore they hope to complete the retrofit in 2038.
Does the ADA affect Canada too? I'd also point out that the newer US metro systems from the 70s (BART, WMATA, MARTA) were 100% accessible from day 1.
@@MilesinTransit The first metro Line Green Line 1 was built between 1962-1967 Frontenac to Atwater Orange Line 2 Crémazie to Bonaventure.Ther Red Line 3a and 3b . never build between Gare Centrale and Val-Royal (Cartierville) 3A) and Ahuntsic 3B North of Crémazie. It was the only line was Metal wheel on Metal Rail But since the Canadian National (CN) refuse to sell the Mount-Royal Tunnel Line 3 was never built. The Yellow Line 4 was build for the expo 1967 With 3 stations (Berri-de-Montigny => Berri-UQAM , Île-Sainte-Hélène => Jean-Drapeau and Longueuil => Longueuil-Université-de-Sherbrooke.
After the extension to Longueuil , the Bureau de Transport Métropolitian (BTM) proposed to prolongate the Line 2 from Crémazie to Laval => Cartier (today) as the Line north Terminus. But the Mayor of Pont-VIau and Futur Mayor of Laval Jacques Tétrault refuse because they want to built the Garage where the Arena Cartier is built today making impossible to Prolongate past Cartier. He said if one day the Metro goes to île-Jésus (Laval) is for disserve it not asserve it.
Because of the refusal they add only station Sauvé and the terminus at Henri-Bourassa.
Laval would have to wait 40 years before having it's branch expansion in 2008.
The first Metro expension was in the early 1970's because Montréal obtains the 1976 Summer Olympics they add two extension Frontenac to Honoré-Beaugrand and Atwater to Angrignon.
A street opened because the tunnel collapse on the west branch changing plan of LaSalle station . The East branch opened in time for the olympic in 1976 but the West branch opened two years later in 1978.
@@MilesinTransit No it does not. It is a mistake many Canadians make because we know the US too well (I pity cops dealing with people who say they plead the fifth). In Ontario, we have the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA Act) which mandates an accessible Ontario by January 1st, 2025. I don't know what the Quebec legislation.
For convenience, Canada typically has similar standards to the US, but we may be stricter. For example, AODA has that deadline, which the ADA does not have.
@@jacktattersall9457 You are right The American Disability act was born 1990 but we have to wait 2019 to have a Canadian Disability Act. They expected to be in full use only in 2040.
@@glaframb But there are provincial disability acts. Quebec has the ACT TO SECURE HANDICAPPED PERSONS IN THE EXERCISE OF THEIR RIGHTS WITH A VIEW TO ACHIEVING SOCIAL, SCHOOL AND WORKPLACE INTEGRATION (the English name is a mouthful), Ontario has AODA.
I skimmed the comments and didn't see anyone else mention it, so here's a Fun Fact: Montreal's subway cars are equipped with wood brake shoes. Seriously. Wood. Also, did you visit the subway "station" at 10880 Rue Basile-Routhier?
I did not! What's the story there?
@@MilesinTransit the nondescript building at that address, in the middle of the park, is the entrance to STM's underground fire prevention training centre. Three retired subway cars are parked in a short stretch of double-track tunnel extending away from a station-like facility, in which a control room is located. Drivers are trained to report emergencies, evacuate pax, and manage small fires before they can grow in conflagrations while waiting for outside help to arrive. In the demonstration I saw during an APTA technical tour in 2014, the driver taking the training had to extinguish a flare with a fire hose to successfully complete the exercise.
Ahhh, that's awesome!
I guess in winter, that's one way to visit the city.