Montreal's new multi-billion-dollar electric light rail system is set to launch its first phase of operations at the end of July, a project seven years in the making.
Montreal's REM may be sleeping on its planned December 1 opening, instead pushing back the launch of the light rail system until next spring at the earliest. La Presse credits unnamed sources with the update, saying REM owner CDPQ Infra will officially announce the news on October 21.
Some commuters will have to wait a bit longer to board the city's new automated light-rail line. Three segments of Montreal's REM (Réseau express métropolitain), from downtown to the North Shore and West Island, now aren't projected to open until the end of 2024. That's a postponement for the central (from Gare Centrale to the borough of Saint-Laurent) and West Island segments, which were supposed to open in fall 2023 and spring 2024, respectively. The previous schedule already put the opening of the line to Deux-Montagnes on the North Shore in fall 2024.
We finally know how the announcer s voice on the REM (Réseau express métropolitain) will sound and apparently, it s someone relatively famous. Greater Montreal s impending light rail transit network put the voice of its future announcer to a public vote, which closed in August.