Montreal Metro

The Metro, managed by the Montreal Transport Society ( FR Société de transport de Montréal (STM) ), was opened on October 14, 1966 , during the reign of Mayor Jean Drapo. The opening was planned as a show of one of the achievements in terms of transport at the Expo-67 exhibition. Initially, the metro consisted of 26 stations on 3 non-communicating lines. To date, the metro includes 68 stations on four lines, with a total length of 65 km. The metro serves the northern, eastern and central parts of the island, where the city of Montreal is located, connecting with the continent in the Longyeary area through the yellow line, which also has a stop on St. Helena. The orange line reaches the western part of Montreal, namely the Laval Island.

One of the features of the Montreal Metro is the use of bus-mounted trains, which is combined with a traditional rail. Trains are equipped with rubber tires that roll along special steel or concrete tracks. When choosing a tire run, the engineers were guided by the fact that the vibration caused by the train will be less destructive for buildings located higher than in the case of traditional bearing steel wheels ^[1] .

There are 4 lines in the Montreal metro, each of which is identified by a specific color, route number and end stations. The busiest line is the 2nd, orange on the maps, it is also the longest (30 km), while the slowest line is the 5th, blue on the maps. The 4th line, yellow on the maps - the shortest, has only 3 stations. It was built specifically for convenient transport to the 1967 World's Fair , which took place on St. Helena. On April 28, 2007, on the 2nd line, 3 more stations were opened. Thus, it was extended northwest to the island of Laval.

Construction began in May 1962 , with the expectation that by the summer of 1967 the metro would work. In the summer of 1967, the world exhibition Expo-67 was to take place in Montreal, so the city needed a transport system. In the original version there were only 3 lines. In connection with the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal in 1971, work began to extend the green line to the north, to the place where the stadium and the Olympic village are now located. Then, from 1978 to 1982, the orange line was extended several times in both directions. Blue line stations opened between 1986 and 1988 , but they were designed 10 years earlier.

Development Prospects

From the beginning of the 2000s, it is planned to develop the fifth (blue) line in the northeast to the Anjou area. Initially, it was assumed that the new section of the line will include 6 new stations, but in 2010 the project was modified, including due to the planning and the opening of electric trains to the city of Maskush (the direction was opened at the end of 2014). As a result, the extension was shortened to just three stations, the construction of which is scheduled to begin in the near future. This section will be the first ground section of the Montreal Metro.