"Ok, how do I get out of here now?" Is the most accurate thing I've heard about Alexis Nihon

Let me correct you on one thing. Montreal's Metro system is renowned for having vastly different station designs. You might not have ridden enough of them to notice, but their are some very spectacular stations to be seen there. I am originally from Vermont and frequently went to Montreal to have a Montreal Smoked Meat Sandwich at Dunn's and ride the Metro's with my children, just for the fun of it. I first rode them while attending Expo 67 were you get to ride under the St. Lawrence. Haven't been there for about 30 years now and since I currently live in North Carolina it's a little harder to run up there on a Saturday Morning.

I want to visit Montréal now!

Les premières stations du métro de Montréal sont toutes différentes l'une de l'autre car elles ont été dessinées par des architectes différents. La voix que vous entendez annoncer la prochaine station est celle de Michèle Deslauriers, une vedette de la télé et de la radio connue de tous.

More Montreal videos please! I miss it so much.

@christofat2704

Жыл бұрын

More than downtown and old Montréal please

That was an awesome experience! I liked how smooth and quiet the Montreal Subway was! 🚇 Very clean, modern and efficent. Montreal defintely has it's pros. Awesome tour my friend! 👏

I didn't notice the rubber wheels when I visited, but now I see them thanks to your videos! 😂 The Montreal subways are modern, clean, and efficient, and I love hearing the French announcements. 😍 Thank you so much for sharing this subway ride, AK! 🤗

@ActionKid

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! Don’t know how you missed out on the rubber wheels

Cool video and I like how he figured out naturally organically how to exit the metro using intuition and common sense. Along with the lack of huge throngs of crowds, it shows how pleasant and modern Montreal is. The end of the video let out exactly at the building that was previously the Montreal Forum and seeing it no lonher a hockey arena always makes me sad.

Welcome to Montreal! Funny having you explore my city, enjoy your time here!

I enjoy visiting Montreal. The Metro is a great way to get around the city and so quiet. Montreal is modern clean and I feel safe when visiting there. I use to like to visit New York City but I lost interest in it. It's far to dirty, dangerous and overwhelming in so many ways. In fact I have found in the times we live in now, that I prefer to visit Canada than the USA. Although I do enjoy visiting Boston, probably because it reminds me both of Europe and Canada.

I’ve lived in Montreal and Laval my entire life born in Connecticut. I love it here, maybe move to Ottawa one day but am spoiled here.

the green light on the sides of the doors is not for the color of the line but to show which side to get off open or close...., when it is white is doors closed, Red when the doors will close and green which side to get off.

The green light where are the doors are not indicating the green line but the side of the station. In orange line, it’s green too

Another good one. Love the various city metro vids.

Some stations are really beautiful , one of the most beautiful one Radisson it is like a concrete space ship .

@nicknico4121

10 ай бұрын

It's like entering a science fiction movie from the late 70s.

@VeryDL

2 ай бұрын

Or verdun!

😂 I swear, if I see Action Kid in person or run into him, I'm going to fan out!

At 0:41 you can see someone making a peace ✌️ sign. Well, that’s me hahaha

@SyntaxOverflow

2 ай бұрын

How did you find yourself in this video hahahhaha

@ManuelLopezTovar

2 ай бұрын

@@SyntaxOverflow I sometimes watch transit videos haha and when I saw the title and then where ActionKid was walking, I remembered I saw someone videoing back in December 2022 and I did the peace sign haha

Enjoyed watching; the subway there is very clean and fast.

Very nice!

Good Wednesday Evening My Friend IAM Hoping That You Had A Wonderful Day Thank You So Much For Inviting All Of Us To Ride Along With You Get Well Soon Much Love Always Ms British Gray From Tampa Florida Blessings :)

Great video! just a quick note, the lights on the side of the doors stay white in transit, and they turn green to let the riders know which side the door will be opening on, and then turn red when theyre about to close.. same on all lines wherever these newer Azur metro cars are.. possibly not the blue and yellow lines.

Stations to check out: - Verdun (design uses forced perspective like in Sutphin-Archer-JFK Airport station) - Charlevoix (deepest station in the system) - LaSalle (geometric design) - Square-Victoria (has Art Nouveau style entrance) - Lionel-Groulx (very wide open transfer station like a gym) - Prefontaine (also geometric in design) - Radisson (design looks like a spaceship) - Villa Maria (colorful design)

@yoyobass100

Жыл бұрын

Facts: -This is the largest subway in Canada - Radisson and Lionel-Groulx were filming locations for the 1997 movie The Jackal as fictionally depicted Capitol South and Metro Center for the DC Metro - The system is 100% underground

@wonderror9546

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you mentionned Verdun in that list, it's one of my favourites and it so often gets overlooked. I love it because it's absolutely massive and it looks like some sort of retrofuturistic Aztec god's temple.

Ohohoho yes, I see you have rode the MPM-10! Excellent trains

If you look for super nice metro architecture from the 1970s you can check LaSalle and Préfontaine. The cinema building at Atwater was where the Canadiens were playing until 1996.

Great video 📹👍Montreal metro is fun

up until a couple years ago, our metro cars were still the original ones from one they opened the metro system in the 60s lol. The smell of the breaks stopping on the wood blocks is melted into my memory haha. Edit: did you notice the "bing bong boooooong" noise before it would take off? there's one station, Vendome on the blue line, when the metro train takes off the wind passes through the art structure in the ceiling to play a spaceship type of tune

@act_sion

Жыл бұрын

The art structure has never worked

@ActionKid

Жыл бұрын

Interesting!

@valerieann8007

Жыл бұрын

Cool idea! They ought to fix that if not working.

I watched a video about the design of the cars and the guy was particularly proud of that armrest, made possible by having the doors open on the outside of the train. He said how sometimes tiny differences, sometimes a question of a couple of centimetres in the right place can make a huge difference to rider comfort. Same thing about the placement and height and quantity of the grab bars. Similarly, the first automatic station announcements were wordier and there were more of them, but after feedback from users, they reduced them to a minimum, even changing "The next station is: xxxx" to the shorter "Next station: xxxx" It's a tiny change, perhaps, but like the armrest, it does make a difference in the long run.

@nicknico4121

10 ай бұрын

I remember around the early 2000s when the driver would actually call the next station with the mic every time you would depart from a station. "Prochaine station : à l'eau! at water!"

I loved it

God bless Canada, beautiful and clean country,

Wonderful video, thanks for sharing 👌

Rubber wheels on metro , that’s an quite unique, but now when i'm thinking that i realize the purpose for those rubber wheels reducing the squealing etc..., clean station and nice subway ride 😎Thank you for sharing A K 🙂👍!!!

@francis2939

Жыл бұрын

It's also because Montreal is quite hilly and they found trains with rubber tires could accelerate up the hills much faster.

The subway door lights indicate green on the side where you will disembark the train, and red when they are closing. It is not based on which colour line you are on

@rboozer66581

Жыл бұрын

That is correct NYCT will have the same color light on their side doors when all the R211 and R262 cars arrive on the system

@ActionKid

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for that info, I discovered the colored lights didn’t work that way the more times I rode the subway

Wow…Never knew they got new Metro trains!!! Looks so nice!!! Been a while I’ve visited Montreal. Canada’s transportation infrastructure is so advance!!!

@ahmedshakeel5112

Жыл бұрын

Not as advanced as the US and Europe. Just because Ontario and Quebec is advanced, doesn't mean the rest of Canada is.

@BLACKSTA361

Жыл бұрын

@@ahmedshakeel5112 the us systems are trash compared to Asia and Europe. even Delhi has a better metro system than any US city other than NYC and maybe Chicago

@jeanbolduc5818

Жыл бұрын

Toronto subway is not adanced ...does not even have WIFI and the trains are very loud

@pepperpillow

11 ай бұрын

Montreal and Vancouver have nice systems but they are underbuilt. Every other city is messing it up even harder.

You are doing very well with the French AK.. Tres Bon!!! :)

Thank you!! Rubber wheel's!!!

We’ve got a great Metro system here I’m 62 and born in Montreal and still live near it. It’s clean and safe. I remember using the NYC subway in the 1980s it was filthy and freaky and the lights kept going off. As a 20 year old me and my friends thought it was cool. ( we were also high as hell /New Years eve 1981 ) but really the thing was like a broken down amusement ride with people relieving all kinds of urges in the darker parts of the system. Sorry to my family in Brooklyn. It’s still cool

@dezonfilm

2 ай бұрын

This is such a cool memory. I love the internet.

From Atwater, there is a really nice indoor and outdoor market, Atwater Market. It's only a couple of blocks from the Atwater Metro. Hope you had a chance to go there.

@francis2939

Жыл бұрын

Get off at Lionel Groulx station next time. It's much closer to the market!

welcome to MONTREAL

Thanks, AK, I like those Montreal subway trains. They are modern, quiet and clean with wide doors. I’ve never been to Montreal but it looks like the nicest subway in North America. How would you rate it compared to the others you’ve been on?

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Montreal subway is a masterpiece , high tech, clean , fast and all stations are different designed by more than 45 architects

Sorry, all stations are all different from each other , each station was designed by a different architect to reflect the different boroughs of Montreal

The metro quite on the take off kool..

I remember when I took a vacation to Montreal while I was living in NY. I had never seen anything like it. There was no piss poop rats or paper on the sub tracks. It was just unbelievable.

@julienielsen4462

Жыл бұрын

Montreal and Laval are clean.

Looks exactly like the Toronto subway

Love Montreal, definitely my favourite city (especially in the summer) kinda a pain in the butt if you don't know some french though.

Great view. What kind of camera do you use? And where do u mount it?

That metro is fast

The colour lights on the doors are to show which side you exit on.

Actionkid you should meet up retroolschool

You should have a quick look of the Radisson one .

Rubber Wheels ? No rubber tires like cars and truck but behind are the metal wheels which are used when métro change lane (or side) or if tire looses pression (leak) in this case the car will sit on the rail and will be detected if so the train will be evacuated in the next station and will go the be repaired

Good with pronunciations in Montreal, it's not like saying Strachan Street in Toronto. LOL.

ROFL RUBBERY WHEELS means NO loud SQUEALS and lil squeaks, AK, kind of like my wife of many years. 🤣 WHY YOU FIEND!!

Questions for you. I grew up in Montreal, now live in Vancouver. In my opinion I don't find the train system in Vancouver as good as Montreal. I'm wondering what your thoughts are comparing NYC to Montreal's Metro?

All trains light green for opening red for closing white in transit

Your pronounciation wasn't even close to right but it doesn't matter. I think it's pretty clear based on this one example how direction of travel (eastbound/westbound) is much better than terminal stations.

I wonder if the rubber wheels are cheaper to replace than the high quality strengthened steel wheels that must have to be used for regular subway trains.

@DigitalIslandboy

Жыл бұрын

@for the love of God Correct. Look at it again. Rubber wheels on a small little platform thing should take a long time to wear down vs. steel on steel grinding away on one another.

@lzh4950

Жыл бұрын

I understand that a reason for using rubber tyres is that they screech less when negotiating corners, allowing the Metro to have sharper turns, & thus to position interscecting lines at an interchange to be parallel instead of perpendicular to each other, which in-turn allows for more convenient cross-platform interchanges. Rubber offers more traction than steel too, allowing the tracks to negotiate steeper slopes & thus for stations below elevated land to be located higher & closer to street level

Thank you, France is more beautiful in Québec 💙🤍

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I actually dislike the metro seats. Yeah, the armrest is cool, but the seats themselves? Not so much. Last week, I took the orange line from Du College to Henri-Bourassa (27 stops) and my a*s started to hurt midway through. I took the green line back from Joliette to Lionel-Groulx, during which I chose to stand. But other than these seats, the train itself was pretty nice. I wish that those trains had leather seats or at least softer ones like the 22 series to 25 series novabuses (2002-2005 bus models). Unfortunately, we don't get such seats on newer buses nowadays. Modern bus seats (bus models from 2017 and onward) are harder than the cement asphalt.

I'm just saying the montreal metro is always an underground system, every station is underground

@nicknico4121

10 ай бұрын

there is an "underground network" called RESO (in which McGill station is included along with 5-6 other stations) constituted of malls and stores all walkable underground. So stop trying to act smart...

And by the way. Wheelchair belongs to my student from endeavour

t he rubber wheels permits the train to climb steeper hills

Nice! My channel has tons of Montreal transit content guys. I live in Montreal and film it daily almost.

10 times better than the Paris dirty metro

Isn't it so much better riding a metro system which is not a s$ithoke and disease and rodent infested like the new York? Lots of lessons to learn here for the Americans. Montreal metro is a fantastic system. Modern, fast and clean.

McGill is the busiest station in the Montréal Metro

@nicknico4121

10 ай бұрын

LOL wrong

@sauceboss18

10 ай бұрын

@@nicknico4121 so which is it then? Berri-UQAM?

Torontos is most similar to NYC compared to Montreal

@hellfreezer3037

Жыл бұрын

Montreal is more like boston

Absolutely too much different and clean.better NY City,

Sauve juste radisson

@therealman2620

Жыл бұрын

Perds-toi mec, tu es partout! Arrêtez de spammer chaque fois qu'une vidéo est publiée sur KZread du métro STM!

Montreal metro is not clean. Dunno why tourists think it is. Its actually very filthy.

@user-mrfrog

10 ай бұрын

Comparativement à d'autres métros en Amérique du Nord, celui de Montréal est généralement propre. Évidemment, si on compare avec les métros au Japon ou en Chine, ça c'est une autre histoire!

For those wondering, the metro uses steel wheels and rails. If you look closely at the track you'll see steel rails right next to the small concrete slabs on which the rubber wheels roll on. The steel wheels which are located behind the rubber wheels underneath the car have many uses : part of the breaking system, negative pole for the electric power (positive comes from the lateral rails), back up if a tire deflates and guiding rail on switches (because there can't be lateral rails on switches). The rubber wheels only provide support for the weight of the train as well as all the traction needed to move, which explains why it is smoother and quieter than steel technology. Rubber wheels on concrete with lateral guiding rails makes it possible for those trains to accelerate faster, take steeper slopes and sharper turns at almost twice the speed of steel wheels on steel rails. Actionkid, you should go visit some stations on the eastern part of the green line like Préfontaine and Radisson. PS For those who want to see more here's the link to an unofficial site by a metro enthusiast! metrodemontreal.com/index-e.html

@lzh4950

Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile Mitsubishi's Crystal Mover system is able to have switches along its tracks without needing vertical steel wheels on rails. Instead, to guide the train onto a diverging track, a shallow metal trough will protrude out underneath the lateral rail on the inner side of the switch, 'scooping' in the horizontal guide wheels on the inner side of the train (made possible by designing the guide wheels to be fixed a short distance away from the bogies, leaving some room in-between the wheels & the bogies for the metal trough to do its 'scooping') when it passes over the switch. This pulls the train onto the diverging track

@norm4966

Жыл бұрын

One thing not mention is maintenance train and car working at night don't have rubber well and they use the metal rail.

Beautiful and clean and not everyone wearing black which is nice unlike monkey see, 🙈 do Toronto

Ascenseur (fr) = Elevator (en) Sortie (fr) = Exit (en) Eau in french is just pronounced O. Ault => same just O. Montambault -> Mon-tan-bo Just because n before the b is just become m in french. Honoré-Beaugrand -> Ho-no-ray - Bo-Gran (the d at the end is silent) The metro station is across Honoré-Beaugrand Street in the Neighborhood of Tétraultville in the borough of Mercier in the superborough of Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (MHM). Honoré Beaugrand was the founder of the defunct newspapers La Patrie. He is also the author of the Novel called La Chasse-Gallerie were Lumberjacks made a deal with the Devil to see there family on new year eves aboard a flying canoe. Angrignon -> An-Gree-neeon is the name of a Parc and Boulevard that give the name of the station, Parc Angrignon in the neighborhood of Saint-Paul in the Borough of Côte-Saint-Paul / Ville-Émard in the super borough of Sud-Ouest (South-West) Jean-Baptiste-Arthur Angrignon was a Montréal City Councillor for Saint-Paul between 1921-1934.

Je suis content que la police de Montréal réprime les mendiants dans le métro ! Les gens ne s'attendent pas à être harcelés par des inconnus pour de l'argent.

@nicknico4121

10 ай бұрын

Tellement de vermine indésirable dans les métros, et les jeunes qui vont à l'école doivent côtoyer ça chaque jour. Ciboire disparaissez...crissez-moi ça dans le fond de la campagne, c'est pas comme s'ils avaient une job à MTL.