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Montreal: A Metro Stuck in the Past

An amazing metro, that needs to enter the 21st century.

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Reece
Jun 12, 2025
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I love the Montreal Metro. The system is architecturally magnificent, fairly extensive, unique in several ways (like being entirely enclosed including the yards), and just of a scale (giant underground station caverns, sometimes large enough to swallow the buildings on the surface that surround them, big interchanges) that few systems on this continent …

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