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We have a toll free line, and every stop has a "Stop number". You punch that in and get the next three stops. But the best tool IMO is the STM (Société de Transport de Montréal) site, which, although doing what Google also does, does it with more precision. http://www2.stm.info/taz/index.php?lng=en Pretty cool to factor in holidays

I love evince too, but he was talking about large (multi megabyte) pdf files.

Try this one in evince: http://www.stm.info/info/reseau2006.pdf

In Montreal city we have this since 1997 !!!!

It's called "Tout Azimuts" and it is working really well.

http://www.stm.info/English/azimuts/a-index.htm

The Montreal (Canada) transit system (STM) has a similar tool called Tout Azimuts which I use all the time.

But, it seems to be broken today...c'est la vie...

The "Société de Transport de Montréal" (Montreal Public Transit) has had a public transit planner called "Tous Azimuts" (All directions) on their website since 1997. You can access the planner here.
The planner is a collaboration between STM and the Ecole Polytechnique's Intelligent Transport Research Group (in french, english version is incomplete).

Your commute can be planned different ways. You can choose your start and end points using a map, through a text search (street address or street corner) or with lists of important landmarks (tourist, hospitals, schools, government and everything in the middle). It will plan your commute either with your start time or specifying an arrival time. There are options to minimize walk time, exclude taking the train and what not.
All in all it's pretty complete and extremely useful.

Subway maps were very difficult to get. Technically they were free and available, but you had to be damned lucky to find a token booth clerk who actually had any in the booth. A downloadable map makes a world of sense, and frankly I cannot understand just WHAT about a subway system map needs copyright protection?

As a regular subway and bus user in Montreal, I can attest to the fact that online maps, schedules and other niceties from the local transit corporation are great. You can download and print whatever you like.

Each bus stop has a unique phone number that you can call to find out when the next bus should arrive, that's a nice feature. If you have an internet connection, you can check when the next scheduled buses will be passing (this is really useful because schedules change depending on season and the day, obviously.)

Of course, not all buses are always on time and not all bus drivers are "best-of-breed", but 80% of the time I board a bus here I get an honest 'Bonjour' from the driver and most of the riders respond in kind while getting on and off the bus. Most people say, 'Merci' to the driver before stepping out.

One of my son's rented games involved exploring/fighting badguys in a subway, and if the player looked closely at one of the wall posters it was a quite accurate graphical map of the Montreal subway system (without station names, but very obvious).

Montreal's Metro currently has an ad campaign against door-holders. These people are called illegal retards.

Heh. We've had our metro line since 1966 ;)

That's 65 stations, on three lines and a half. Working pretty well, too. Mind you, I wouldn't go as fall as calling it 21st century technology just yet. I'll wait for 'pilot'-less full-blown, 24/7 underground mag-lev systems before commenting on that....

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Montreal's transit system is www.stm.info. It's very useful and informative.

The English writing at the above link (which is a history of the Metro system - i.e., subway) is excellent.

If i go outside after playing "follow freeman" level in half-life 2, i still hear bombs and machine guns. I also look around for combine soldiers, snipers or something worse.

When i see police officers on the streets or the huge screens showing adverting in our subway stations, it reminds me the beginning of the game (the "pick up that can" scene and the screen outside the train station)

Building underground makes sense; where I live, there is also an extensive downtown underground network (in light gray on this map;interconnected city blocks are in pink) which everyone raves about (especially during winter), so it's not that silly an idea.

And it proves that history repeats itself... There is a lot to learn from the past.

stm.info is much better than their old domain of stcum.qc.ca

25 years ago, you still saw business signs with phone numbers like "CRescent 3-1712", "GUlliver 2-1687", "LAkeside 7-3882", "OPera 3-2332" or WEllington 2-1428".

And you think that marketers having numbers like "1-800-dev-null" are new, think again: the local transit operator have had for at least 45 years 288-6287 as it's main information phone number. It also nicely transcribes neatly into the easily-remembered " AUTOBUS "...

25 years ago, you still saw business signs with phone numbers like "CRescent 3-1712", "GUlliver 2-1687", "LAkeside 7-3882", "OPera 3-2332" or WEllington 2-1428".

And you think that marketers having numbers like "1-800-dev-null" are new, think again: the local transit operator have had for at least 45 years 288-6287 as it's main information phone number. It also nicely transcribes neatly into the easily-remembered " AUTOBUS "...