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Montreal Metro: Information from Answers.com (3233 words) |
 | The Montreal Metro is the main form of public transportation within the city of Montreal. |
| The Metro, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), was inaugurated on October 14, 1966, during the tenure of Mayor Jean Drapeau. |
| Along with the Stockholm Metro, Montreal pioneered the installation of public art in the metro among capitalist countries, a practice that before hand was mostly found in Socialist and Communist nations (the Moscow Metro being a case in point). |
| Montreal Metro at AllExperts (1650 words) |
| The Montreal Metro is the main form of public transportation within the city of Montreal and was the second metro system to be built in Canada, opening 12 years after the Toronto subway. |
| The Montreal Metro runs entirely underground and was the first metro in the world to exclusively use rubber tires instead of steel wheels. |
| Montreal's rolling stock is among the oldest still in use on any metro system in the world, and the STM is pressing the provincial government hard for the large investment necessary to replace the trains. |
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