2023-07-30 12:13:55
After a huge crowd on Saturday for the open doors of the Metropolitan Express Network, curious people lined up at 6 a.m. in Brossard to make sure they could try it for free on Sunday.
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About 60,000 people showed up on Saturday according to the organizers, so some made the trip without being able to board the REM cars.
This is what prompted some people to arrive on site three hours before the start of the second and final open day to ensure they had a place.
“We didn’t take a chance because given the number of people who came today, like yesterday, we wanted to be sure to have a ‘ride'”, says a man whom TVA Nouvelles met shortly before 7 a.m.
“We want to come with our bikes eventually, so we come to see how it works, adds his wife. We got up at 4:30, we got ready and then we came.
“I was part of the consortium that was doing the construction and so I really wanted to see this,” says another person. All I see is all I’ve seen on the blueprints it’s here now and it’s beautiful.”
The organizers are expecting heavy traffic on Sunday.
“We invite people to limit themselves to a round trip, to let other people board and plan their trips accordingly,” said CDPQ spokesperson Jean-Vincent Lacroix. It’s really to discover the REM, we are not in a logic of travel.
The South Shore section of the REM will therefore be accessible free of charge from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
It will officially enter service on Monday.
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