{"id":5022,"date":"2026-04-14T18:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/5022\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:48:26","slug":"anse-a-lorme-line-of-montreal-rem-opens-next-month-with-4-new-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/5022\/","title":{"rendered":"Anse-\u00e0-l&#8217;Orme line of Montreal REM opens next month with 4 new stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new branch of Montreal&#8217;s REM light-rail system is set to open May 18, expanding the network in the city&#8217;s West Island region.<\/p>\n<p>The Anse-\u00e0-l&#8217;Orme line is the third to open and will have four stations over 14 kilometres, bringing to 23 the total number of stations in operation over 63 kilometres of track.<\/p>\n<p>A final branch to Montr\u00e9al Trudeau International Airport is scheduled to open in 2027 with two more stations.<\/p>\n<p>The first five stations, connecting downtown Montreal to the city&#8217;s South Shore, opened in 2023, and a 30-kilometre line to the North Shore began service last fall.<\/p>\n<p>Since November, the REM \u2014 R\u00e9seau express m\u00e9tropolitain \u2014 has averaged 75,000 trips per day, with a peak of 98,000 rides in one day.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release, REM operator Pulsar says the May 18 opening date is based on recent tests and contingent on &#8220;everything going according to plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The four new stations \u2014 Des Sources; Fairview\u2014Pointe-Claire; Kirkland; and Anse-\u00e0-l\u2019Orme \u2014 connect the towns of Pointe-Claire, Kirkland and Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue on the Island of Montreal. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This new segment represents an important milestone for mobility in the West Island: the REM becomes the first high frequency, structurally integrated public transit network to serve the area,&#8221; Pulsar said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 14, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new branch of Montreal&#8217;s REM light-rail system is set to open May 18, expanding the network in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[50,3096,315,3097],"class_list":["post-5022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-metro","tag-montreal-news","tag-rem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}