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Is the REM the Future of Canadian Transit Expansion?

Reflections with the big REM Opening, and the idea of CanadaMetro.

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Reece
Nov 15, 2025
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Today, Montreal is opening the next and biggest phase of the REM project, extending the five-stop line to over 15 stops and 30 kilometres, from the south shore suburbs across the St. Laurent, under Mount Royal, and north to Laval, Deux-Montagnes, and to a small island, with automated metro trains (crazy stuff, I know what I’d do if I had a few million d…

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