The architecture is really beautiful! It is amazing what you can build when you don’t have to worry about bricks falling and killing people after an earthquake! Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful French speaking city and Province!

@donkeydik2602

3 жыл бұрын

Well actually Montreal is situated on a fault line. Even if the seismic activity is almost non existant, it can go up to 6 on the R. Scale and 7 in surrounding regions.

@stockey

Жыл бұрын

@@donkeydik2602 I remember the one in 1988.

@patatebanine4278

Жыл бұрын

Metro is here since 1966, we never has this problem

Good video. As for the “Champ-de-Mars” station, it has to be seen during daytime on a sunny day at the upper level. It is the stained glass that is remarkable. Another station worth seeing is "Peel".

It feels so weird to see this video when you take the montreal metro everyday lol! We just don’t realize the architecture of the stations when we take it so it’s really interesting to see it and from a non-native montrealers perspective above all. 😁

@Kiera_Jackson74

Жыл бұрын

Sames in Vancouver... I've rode Skytrain and Seabus everyday for decades... don't give much thought to it. But show a stranger and it's eyes wide open LOL

So happy to see you appreciating the wonderful “Brutalist” architecture of my youth. Most people don’t understand it.

@AmedeeBoulette

3 жыл бұрын

Montréal has so much brutalism... love it.

@donkeydik2602

3 жыл бұрын

Ya Quebec is pretty much the soviet union of north america

@neofils

3 жыл бұрын

@@donkeydik2602 I guest you never lived in the USSR!

@donkeydik2602

3 жыл бұрын

@@neofils it’s a joke you dumbo. I said that because we have a lot of concrete buildings and brutalist architecture compared to the rest of north america

Pour moi, le métro de Montréal est pure nostalgie!!! Merci pour cette vidéo!

after watching this, i feel like i am just taking Montreal for granted and never had such a positive vision for metro stations, this shook me to the core and now m glad i can see the beautiful architecture and design and view from different perspective. thnx a lot merci

Yeah, at Champs de Mars, you should have gone upstairs. That's where all the stained glass artwork is.

It's a shame that with the whole Covid thing the musicians aren't playing in the stations I guess... It would've been cool to show that :)

@simonrancourt7834

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I remember once, there was a bagpiper at Guy and you could hear him all the way to Lionel-Groulx, 2 stops further.

@ninjask8ter

3 жыл бұрын

it looks so damn boring.

le me: watching this rn at Snowdon station😂😂😂

@justingabriel8932

3 жыл бұрын

YES to our humble brick metro!

@trigaaman187fearmybullets6

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@holger_p

2 жыл бұрын

There is a good diner for smoked meat sandwiches right above ;-)

I used to take the metro a lot in the 1980s and 90s, before anyone had smartphones. One of the things that would happen is I would stare at someone's reflection in the window. If they noticed I would pretend to be looking just beside her. Then you surreptitiously try to see if she is still looking at you. It was a funny "game" Now I suppose everyone just looks at their phones. Once I was taking night courses, and on the way home I fell asleep and instead of switching lines at Lionel-Groulx I ended up at Angrignon. When I was really young my grandmother would take me into town by metro. I lived on the South Shore so we had to take the yellow line, where the stations are separated by long distances because it goes under the river. I would sit in the window seat and stare at the blue neons going by in the tunnel. It was hypnotic.

@simonrancourt7834

3 жыл бұрын

In the firsts years, there was an animated add in the tunnels of the yellow line. Back then, it was called line #4. I was 6 yo the summer of '67.

Préfontaine's my station! Loved it ever since I moved to that part of town, somehow fits so well in the neighborhood too. Glad you like it!

Love the creative shots at different angles! Ça met en valeur la magnifique architecture des stations.

Thank you for all the effort you put into this video! I love all the different architecture styles and the cool old school tile that you made sure to get shots of! 🤩

Nice video, Dan! It makes me miss Montreal and want to visit again. But so sad to see how empty those stations are and the last empty car at the end. I think every station in Montreal is so darn unique and artistic... very 1960's modern-style design for that time!

The Montreal metro really looks like a ghost town during Covid! No people. In Mexico City little by little the metro has become more crowded again. Though it's now maybe at about 60% the number of people it had pre-Covid. I remember the Montreal metro from when I visited there. (I'm sorry to say that was a bit over 20 years ago.) I love using the metro/subway when I travel. It's makes you feel like a resident rather than a tourist.

@guspom5096

3 жыл бұрын

Well I take the montreal metro 2 or 3 times a day to get to school and move around the city and I can tell you he must’ve shooted that video at a certain hour or day where it’s really not busy because it is always muuuch more busy and crowded than that when I take it everyday. It sure hasn’t gone back to the pre-pandemic level of busy because I almost always have a seat now (except at rush hour) whereas before it was much more rare to get one sometimes. But of course this is just my experience and I mostly only take the green and orange line on a daily basis. 😁

Great video! I love the stations colors

3:22 I heard someone speaking punjabi that's my native language spoken in punjab region of pakistan and india canada is truly diverse

The Montreal metro system has a pretty specific set of colours. But I like it! Really enjoyed this video ☺️

@therabbitholedotwiki

3 жыл бұрын

Brown and orange.. very 70s ;)

Great video! The Metro is one of my favorite things about Montreal.

Amazing video! A brutalist masterpiece, beautifully captured, loved the tour :) I'm hoping to make a video about the Metro in the next couple of months, let me know if you're cool with me featuring some of your footage again. I have so many clips of tourists gawking at the architectural styles of each station haha

@patatebanine4278

Жыл бұрын

Sad that he didnt have the chance to see our ex interchange Turcot. It was another impressive brutalism landmark, yep more a landmark than a highway

Thanks for the upload in this time where i cannot travel out of my country this is appreciated

Wow..I do miss Montreal. I was there last year, haven't faced the winter, though. Thanks, Dan. Ana from Brazil here😄

Please make a part 2 some day. Make sure you feature Lucien L'allier in it. It is one of the deepest metros that features a very long escalator. Also Beaudry has one of the most surprising escalators of the whole systems. Actually a magic carpet ride for kids and adults alike.

Pure joy to watch my friend! This is what I am striving for in my videos!

@TheNewTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate you 🙏

Nice video ! Sure it worth ! Keep doing that, I could not find someone better than you to see my future city, you don't know but you help me a lot

Thanks for the tour ! There are some stations I didn't visti for some years... For Champ-de-Mars, I think you missed the stained-glass window by Marcelle Ferron because you went there by night. It's worth to see it on a sunny day, inside and outside the station.

Love how relatively quiet those rubber tires are.

This was a really cool video.

Thank you for sharing your tour and your thoughts! Please film the Underground City someday?

Great video! Having never visited Montreal, this seems like a legitimately cosmopolitan city. Montreal Metro also appears to be a very well thought out and maintained system from inception to today.

Bonaventure is pretty nice as well, one of the better maintained stations since its connected to the VIA rail station, a hotel and many big office buildings. You can also walk from Bonaventure to McGill station using the underground.

@wavearts3279

3 жыл бұрын

It's my favorite.

All I can think about : '' Welcome to City 17. You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. ''

I visited Montreal from Toronto in 2016 and was blown away by the subway. It did feel like we went down 200km to get to the platform, pretty cool.

I like how colourful and unique the stations are. Vancouver's are much more plain/grey/industrial looking in comparison. Also the trains are so long!

Wow, your subway stations are so clean! And thanks for the efforts... I never liked being in the subway.. The smell, the darkness. So many hours would be a torture to me 😊

Did the same thing when I was a bored exchange student in Montreal. Unfortunatly this was before Smartphone era, didn't film it, can't share it. But thanks for the job.

Not one station looks the same

Verdun station (a lot of space), and Peel (its suspended parts on tiny bolts), Du collège wits its column, Université de Montréal for its lighting, Jarry for its ceiling are visually interesting too

beautiful! even as a montrealer you made me discover metro station! :P

I LOVED IT ❤️🤩🥰

Interesting and eerily quiet. Almost seemed like the start of a spooky, scary movie!

So beautiful❤

Great shots! I've always loved the Montréal métro. My favourite station was Saint-Henri because it's so grandiose, but over time, it became Préfontaine which is like a very good architect's loveletter to métro stations. Everything is so discreet and clever, and during the day it's extremely well lit from the outside, and from the street, although more discreet than Radisson, it also has a great 70s spaceship look, but the construction is so simple and low-tech (it was the 70s, after all). I also love the Pic and Pelle soaring art of the Monk métro. And bravo for your pronunciation, especially your nasal for Radisson! But French makes it almost impossible to get everything right, so: in Place Saint-Henri, there is no liaison so you don't pronounce the T; in Place-des-Arts, there IS liaison so you pronounce the first S as Z (but extra points for not pronouncing the final S!); in Champ-de-Mars, you don't pronounce the P, but you DO pronounce the final S (as an S); finally, a tiny mistake but good to know: the É in Préfontaine rhymes with pray, not brie, since É-accent-aigu is ALWAYS pronounced that way. Ah, French.

Just a suggestion but I don’t remember you mentioning that it operates on tires? It’s unique in North America.

@TheNewTravel

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that! Cool!

@markfinn0

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheNewTravel Mexico City has some lines that run on rubber tires.

3:28 that sound bring me back to Osheaga

my first visit was rosemont i believe. beautiful system

Oh man that was great. Give us more video about Montreal. I think Montreal has a lot to show. Even you can make new channel for it.👍

Just got back from Montreal and was staying at univ Montreal ZUM residence by the Edouard Mon-Petit stop on the blue line..I caught a few ubers going back and forth THEN tried the subway..I gotta tell y'all what a pleasure it was, never felt unsafe, never smelled piss, etc..definitely the best subway system i have been on. Now that i familiarized myself with the metro i can't wait to go back.

Wow, it's so empty. Always liked Montreal's Metro. It always looked so clean and quiet.

@brucec5950

3 жыл бұрын

Too empty 🤷🏻‍♂️

@ninjask8ter

3 жыл бұрын

The Metro system in Mexico City is far more exciting.... and scandalous.

@_youmadbrah

3 жыл бұрын

@@ninjask8ter thats not a good thing..

Nice video you don't know how many people feel concern by your filming. I think Montreal is a wonderful place to visit and we should focus on our metro just like you did...

namur has one of the coolest stations, you should showcase that one day!

That’s a lot of motivation to do all the green line to see an anti pigeon roof (i didn’t know that thing existed haha). Also, I was wondering if you ever did or will do a comparative of public transport system of different towns you lived in, I think it would be an interesting video! :)

The beauty of Champs-de-Mars is at the exit upstairs where is was designed with lots of stained glass and colored plexiglass roofing. In summer you get splashes of colors on the walls and floors as you enter and exit the metro. It is also just north of Old Montreal and the Old port, so as you exit you are greeted with the sight of the old Viger train station building and just beyond that you have the oldest part of the city.

Should of visited namur and outremont. They are gorgeous

@juliansmith4295

2 жыл бұрын

Should have

Architecture brutaliste. Superbe

GREETINGS FROM MORELIA MÉXICO

isn't the most beautiful metro in the world, but it is quite nice!

@TheNewTravel

3 жыл бұрын

it's like "ugly beautiful" i think!

@jorgecerbantes377

3 жыл бұрын

Iam so lucky I live in San Francisco California and I guess we got the best whether

@greentape7817

3 жыл бұрын

respectfully disagree, it is near to my heart and I think there is none lovelier.

@louisd.8928

3 жыл бұрын

This style is heavily inspired by Brutalism. It's very much a love it or hate it kind of style.

You missed the nice stained glass at Champs-de-Mars! However, I found the stained glass better at Charlevoix station. I also recommend visiting Verdun and Namur station

This is such a great video!! I'm going to be teaching in Japan and so I'm looking for resources to showcase Canada and also MTL and I really wish I could dedicate a whole class just to this video D: or at least a shorter version of this cause I have no filming skills haha

@TheNewTravel

2 жыл бұрын

That's awesome! I've got tons of videos about Montreal now. Feel free to share as many with your students as you like. Maybe I'll get an army of new Japanese subscribers hahaha

Interesting how most of your inside the train shots are on the older MR-73 stock. Also interestingly Champ-de-Mars is pronounced with the 's' , from the old French word for 'March' . It's located near a 17th century militia drill square, literally a 'marching field'

Nicely shot and edited. So similar to Vancouver's Skytrain system (built for Expo 86), the Montreal metro was built for Expo 67 and opened October 14th 1966? Not a lot of people, so you weren't travelling during a weekday am/pm rush hour?

@brittanysavoie7608

3 жыл бұрын

probably less passengers due to coronavirus

Radisson is exactly the most strange beautiful station ! giant spaceship :-)

@andreraymond6860

3 жыл бұрын

I like to think of it as a Cathedral. Especially the way you photographed it.

Awesome video. Love the creative look of your footage. Good decision for not filming the mask situation. 👍 Thanks for sharing.

The escalators looked so high.

I really loved the Little Diner at Berri UQAM

Do other people find Montreal's Metro to be weird, or is it just me? 👀

@TomMcBoston

3 жыл бұрын

It is just you.

@messyl1900

3 жыл бұрын

Just you. It is older, than most people who use it.

@Cookie7294

3 жыл бұрын

When it was built, each station was supposed to be unique. The burnt orange colour you see in a lot of the stations was a popular colour for decorating in the 70's. The only other subway system I've seen in Canada is Toronto. I remember nothing about it so the stations must be pretty similar. I don't find it weird, maybe because I live here.

@ydesroches1

3 жыл бұрын

I do not know what you mean by "weird", but one must not forget that the subway stations were built at different moments in time. And each station had to look different. I was 13 at the opening on October 1966. And I do remember the excitement I felt and many Montrealers felt at that moment. For many people, it meant no more freezing at bus stops during wintertime (the subway has always been hot, almost unbearable on certain days in summertime). And it was the surest way to go see Expo 67, which opened the world for the people of Montrėal.

@bobbiusshadow6985

3 жыл бұрын

"Weird is in the eye of the beholder." lol Can't wait for the new REM .. and MAYBE (not likely) the hyperloop between Montreal and Toronto

If you like Place St. Henri, you'd adore some of the metro stations in Santiago de Chile. There's a few where they have these art-deco brass pillars holding everything up, and you can stand on one of the concourses near the ticket offices and look down on three or even four separate metro lines arriving and departing at separate levels. It's like Station Antwerpen-Centraal in Belgium. But, y'know. Metro.d

I really enjoyed this video, but I’m weird, too! Imagine if all you did was fly around the world filming subway 🚇 stations?? It would be an incredible feat, but you might not mentally survive the journey!

Tres plate!

Radisson station looks like inside the Death Star

You kinda missed Verdun, it's an amazing station. Anyway, great vid.

@coconutnghtmr9931

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree, that one's in my top 5 and yet somehow it's hardly ever showcased in anyone's videos. The amount of vaporwave/retro-futuristic energy there is over 9000

I love Alan watt

Go to Oratorio San José. I like to see one of your videos on that place.

@neofils

3 жыл бұрын

L'Oratoire Saint Joseph .

weird seeing all these places I see all the time on youtube

I’ve actually contemplated doing something similar in the nyc 🗽 subway system but never did it. I took the Montreal metro 2 summers ago it reminded me of a European style station.

@neofils

3 жыл бұрын

No vlog of Montréal ?

@donkeydik2602

3 жыл бұрын

Montreal has a unique style. Not very european

@neofils

3 жыл бұрын

@@donkeydik2602 . Sort of , the wheel are tire one just like the parisian one . As such the stop is more smooth and silent than many metro system in North America .

@donkeydik2602

3 жыл бұрын

@@neofils ya that’s the only thing but the metro art and style is very different

@neofils

3 жыл бұрын

@@donkeydik2602 . No metro system in Europe is similar !

You didn't quite catch the weird thing that the old trains do. They SING.

I see the metro maps and each station is a white circle. In the early 80s when the orange line was being built. Instead of updating the map periodically, they would put a white sticker next to the metro station on the map. So one week you would see that place St Henri had a white sticker, then a month later you would see Vendome would have a white sticker and So forth.

I would compromise and say that some stations are beautiful while others are ugly, but I agree that they are all rather weird haha! :)

Montreal's first air conditioned metro trains will go into service in 2022 on the REM line.

Dang LG-Radisson, rispict boiii.

Champ de Mars has a large stained glass window. That's the part that everyone speaks of when they mention that station.

Waoo is so Empty,,,,,😮😮😮😮uhhh it looks so quite!!!

New York needs to take notes

I'm just old enough to remember when this system was pretty new. At the time it was pretty futuristic, and very stylish. I didn't know the term 'Brutalist' back then, and I don't recall much use of it in our local press. But now it seems obvious to me how influenced the Metro is by Brutalism. I just always thought the system was kind of cold, hard, and impersonal. Brightly lit with seering neon in some areas, and kind of dim in others. Now it's a bit run down & dirty, as well. That said, I've always been kind of proud of how well public transit works in our city (despite the legitimate niggles - some of which _any_ system would have).

👍👍👍 ... 👋👋👋

Radisson the best! le meilleur !

4:47 D I N D O N

When will you return to México?

@TheNewTravel

3 жыл бұрын

I was actually planning to be in Mexico now. But I had to hold off because it seems lots of things are closed at the moment. What's it like where you are at?

11:07 Friendly tip, go upstairs You won't regret it

Yes the architecture is nice especially the original stations and the copy of Paris etc. Vancouver is strictly West Coast utilitarian. Bang for the buck that works. Toronto is a basket case but still compared to anything else in North America it holds it own.

“2020 shit” 😂

Montreal by Metro - My friend Matt's site (metrodemontreal.com/index-e.html) Great video. You could spend days doing this. Each metro has a story of it's history and building from Matt's site. Take a look, and see what you might have missed.

It is one of the easiest metro systems to navigate. Have rode it many times.

@TheNewTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Way better than nyc 😜

@maryskillan284

3 жыл бұрын

For sure and Paris !

:pfft: the low ceiling to the top level inside Radisson brutally makes you feel like a rat

2020 shit!! 😂😂

"2020 shit" 😆

You can always come back to Mexico, by bus! Cause Montreal looks much as a haunted city.

Welcome to Stockholm’s metro. The metro in your video is not my style. So maybe it is better for me to move to an other place. Thank you for information anyway. ✨

it's Champ-de-MarS, you pronounce the S of Mars as an S in french and not as a Z like in english. (You made it silent)

I always wondered what the mysterious "code 61" stands for... I hear it all the time. My guess is "lunch time".

@ydesroches1

3 жыл бұрын

The answer is here: www.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/vqt4u/metro_montr%C3%A9al_op%C3%A9rateurs_code_60_code_61/

@alancarre7590

3 жыл бұрын

@@ydesroches1 Huh. Overtime eh? Who would have guessed ;)

@maximemailloux9680

2 жыл бұрын

That is overtime available for the driver of the train in the next hours of the day