The Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation au Quebec (MAPAQ) has hit a handful of Montreal fast food restaurants with hefty health inspection fines. The MAPAQ determined many of the restaurants were not operating following its health and safety standards, many of which were fined for improper food temperatures and storage, premise cleanliness and staff hygiene issues.
The Société de transport de Montréal (STM) recently posted a video to its TikTok page of random items that are collected in the Montreal Metro lost and found ranging from shoes to rat food. This got us wondering what else the STM discovers aboard its bus and metro system. So, we reached out to the public transport agency for a few extra details on items most commonly gathered in the Metro lost and found and turns out the STM collects tens of thousands of objects every year.
Montreal loves to trumpet its difference from the rest of the cities in North America and for good reason (usually). But why does that difference have to extend to the very components of our metro system?A look back at discussions around the planning of the metro system in the 1960s offers at least some insight into the seemingly peculiar use of rubber tires on the Montreal metro.