Hotspots of Montreal Transit #4 | Dorval Multimodal Station

The content in this video can best be described as great!

A Dorval REM station would be a serious game-changer with regards to connectivity and service boosts, with VIA, the Commuter Rail and the Buses as well as directly to the airport! The support for that short expansion has been so strong I am confident and hopeful they will extend the REM to Dorval!

Great job! Very helpful 👌

I do hope on REM Inauguration Day they announce a phase 2 with some extensions, like Dorval Circle (and to Mtl-N?). Dreamer! 😇 Some history from Old Prof Frank: the first bus terminal was in the shopping centre on the other side of the A20. This 2nd one was opened in the 1980s. So many hours spent there getting to YUL waiting for the 🤬 204 until thankfully the 747 was started. I’ve had to help so many bewildered tourists, especially during rush hours when the 204 waits on the north loop. I love the STM but 😝 could they, pretty please, get more visually prominent bus stop signs with more legible info?? Surely some of our many Montreal designers could come up with something nifty, striking, appealing and even inexpensive! A legible system map would be nice too... But I’m a cartographer/geographer so I’m a perfectionist... My dad remembers them first building what is now the A20 in the 1930’s! Imagine that before then all traffic went on little Lakeshore Rd! Of course then and until after WWII, the airport was St-Hubert.

Nice tour. Very informative.

Finally got to watching it, this is excellent and the usual high quality I expect! Your content quality is superb! Also love the advocacy for more trains! Edit: Also wow those plantings in the tunnel are awesome!

Cool talking about my own local area

Good video sir, I used stop at that commuter station while riding the AMT from St-Anne-De-Bellevue to Centrè Bell

I wholeheartedly agree that exo should look into something like the 15-minute service they have in Toronto. We have the infrastructure already; we just need to use it!

I’m all too familiar with Dorval terminus. It’s all melancholy memories. Nothing overtly positive

Ya, a REM connection to Dorval is so natural that it probably won't happen, at least for a few years. Quebec Politics just seems to make stuff like that take much longer than it needs o. if you doubt me, then ask why the Metro was never extended to Bois Franc .

I use to take the Mascouche line to work in Pointe aux Tremble and the train frequency sucksssss. Plus you have to pay more so it was not worth it. I don't know if they have different fare zones in Toronto but having 3 zones in the Island of Montreal is absolutely stupid.

The 204 bus for the airport is the worse garbage pile of crap I have ever seen at any airport. Like the other commentator mentions the 204 stops on the other loop AT RUSH HOUR ONLY. And there is only a small sign at the terminal which shows where the bus for the airport is, BUT ONLY AT RUSH HOUR ! I don't think the 204 anywhere on the bus says AIRPORT. For example in San Jose, there is a free shuttle bus that stops at a light rail station. The bus is plastered with drawings of airplanes and the word airport in many many languages. Anyone can figure it out. A couple of years ago I flew into YUL and I was going to stay at a friends place in Pointe Claire near a 204 stop, near where I grew up. I got off the plane and I could find no signs, directions, nothing about where the 204 bus stop is, not even how to get to terminus Dorval. Nothing, zip. A million signs for the 747 bus though. I had to ask employees where the bus stop was. And there was no ticket dispenser for the bus ! I have seen that at every airport I have ever been ! What the hell kind of third world airport is YUL running ? I had to get change at Tim Hortons just so I could take the bus. Then the 204 stop is way the hell at the far end of the airport. I know the west island well, I speak both languages, I know my way around, and I only had one small suitcase. What about a family with a ton of luggage and tired screaming kids ? Someone who has never been to Canada, speaks only a little french or english ? I could go on but you get the point.