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Trasforming Travel

Around Montreal

By Anna Guy will be almost as long. It will include 26 stations

and span the greater Montréal area with 67 km of
t has been described by Prime Minister Justin tracks; by comparison, the current metro network

Trudeau as “one of the most ambitious public is 71 km long. These two networks will also be
transportation projects in our history.” The interconnected at three nodes, allowing better

IRéseau Express Métropolitain (REM), is fluidity of passengers.

Montreal’s new automated light rail network which
will, upon completion, transform how millions of Robert Nadeau, deputy general manager for the

people get around the City of Saints. REM Project, tells Business Elite Canada that the
REM is the largest public transit project undertaken

Announced in 2016, the REM is the biggest in Québec in the last fifty years. The first trains are

transport project since building the Metro—and expected to start running in 2021 from the South

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