Daily Archives: August 3, 2023

Move over RER, Montréal’s new fully automated Réseau express métropolitain (REM)’s first segment has opened. Once fully completed, the REM line will link directly across Montréal Island north, south, and west. Essentially, a Regional Express Rail (RER) line, similar to those in Paris (but not as far reaching), and London’s Crossrail, but at a smaller scale. Closely spaced stations in…

Lyon Finesses NOT Lionesses … … apparently a football team having some measure of success internationally – although from the headlines you would think it was world shattering news.  Meanwhile Lyon is a city in France. with a population very roughly the size of Edinburgh or Sheffield with the usual caveats about borders and definitions! The Transports en commun lyonnais…