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Baseball will always be America's pastime, but for Montreal, not Toronto, to host Canada's first ever baseball team must have a been a special moment, especially since baseball was still very popular back in the 1960s and 1970s, .
At the time (1969), Montreal was still Canada's largest city and had just hosted the world's fair (Expo 67) and would host the Summer Olympics seven years later in 1976. (Two types of events that Toronto has still never hosted.)
It was to most people probably a given that Montreal would get most "firsts" in Canada back then.
Of course Toronto is larger now and has gotten many "Canadian firsts" in recent decades but even today Montreal in its mind doesn't really compete with Toronto as much as people think it would. For better or for worse.
There is still there very much the mindset of longtime Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who once said: "Toronto can very well be Milan, but Montreal will always be Rome."
Well back to the topic of Metro, I'm genuinely surprised that lines 3, 6, and 7 haven't been brought up. I know REM wants to copy part of Line 3, and the Mascouche Line does part of 6, but I can't for the life of me understand why aside from what assume is political hoo-haw between Anglophones and Francophones no one has brought up restoring these lines... if anything Montreal should look at Boston and Philadelphia and have a system like the MBTA Green Line or the Subway Surface Trolley system... plus wasn't someone here earlier talking about a trolley as well? Line 7 was going to be LRT anyways... there's your trolley there!
Well back to the topic of Metro, I'm genuinely surprised that lines 3, 6, and 7 haven't been brought up. I know REM wants to copy part of Line 3, and the Mascouche Line does part of 6, but I can't for the life of me understand why aside from what assume is political hoo-haw between Anglophones and Francophones no one has brought up restoring these lines... if anything Montreal should look at Boston and Philadelphia and have a system like the MBTA Green Line or the Subway Surface Trolley system... plus wasn't someone here earlier talking about a trolley as well? Line 7 was going to be LRT anyways... there's your trolley there!
Ah, Line 3 the Red Line (Ligne Rouge), the line that never came to be built. Truth be told, it was not the best idea back then because a large of portion of Line 3 was above ground whereas all the other lines were entirely below ground and fear of vehicle deterioration due to elements meant that the STM would have had to order an entirely different set of vehicles just for that line. Still, now that the STM is seemingly experimenting with new ideas, I don't see the problem of reviving Line 3 either.
Well back to the topic of Metro, I'm genuinely surprised that lines 3, 6, and 7 haven't been brought up. I know REM wants to copy part of Line 3, and the Mascouche Line does part of 6, but I can't for the life of me understand N why aside from what assume is political hoo-haw between Anglophones and Francophones no one has brought up restoring these lines... if anything Montreal should look at Boston and Philadelphia and have a system like the MBTA Green Line or the Subway Surface Trolley system... plus wasn't someone here earlier talking about a trolley as well? Line 7 was going to be LRT anyways... there's your trolley there!
Anglophone-francophone brouhaha would be extremely rare in debates over Montreal transit planning and development. Not really a factor.
Anglophone-francophone brouhaha would be extremely rare in debates over Montreal transit planning and development. Not really a factor.
Well I remember it being one of the reasons why the Blue Line is so dinky and why Snowden is the way it is (technically only 3 of the 4 platforms being usable)
Ah, Line 3 the Red Line (Ligne Rouge), the line that never came to be built. Truth be told, it was not the best idea back then because a large of portion of Line 3 was above ground whereas all the other lines were entirely below ground and fear of vehicle deterioration due to elements meant that the STM would have had to order an entirely different set of vehicles just for that line. Still, now that the STM is seemingly experimenting with new ideas, I don't see the problem of reviving Line 3 either.
Hence me mentioning Philadelphia and Boston which already were using lines like those...
Well I remember it being one of the reasons why the Blue Line is so dinky and why Snowden is the way it is (technically only 3 of the 4 platforms being usable)
The orange line extension to Snowdon (and beyond) and the blue line weren't built at the same time, though.
Did the REM start running yet? If so I am curious if anyone on here has been on it?
As far as the Poll goes, I chose the REM system for the simple fact if has elevated sections and is almost entirely above ground. The metro, as good as it is, is entirely underground.
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