Whole blue line now hooked up to LTE
The entire blue line is now wired for cell service, but Metro put the wrong photo on this story. Can you tell me why?
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CE 14:05 on 2018-12-20 Permalink
Azur train at Lionel-Groulx. Double whammy!
EmilyG 14:11 on 2018-12-20 Permalink
Yeah, they should’ve used a picture of someone yammering on their phone in a metro car, and me getting annoyed. 😛
ant6n 18:30 on 2018-12-20 Permalink
Maybe the Metro writers of the Metro newspaper don’t ride the Metro often enough to know what the Metro trains and Metro stations look like.
Kate 20:14 on 2018-12-20 Permalink
ant6n, it’s probably just a rushed page editor reaching for a photo in their archive and not thinking about the details.
Faiz Imam 23:09 on 2018-12-20 Permalink
It’s really too loud in trains to hold a phone conversation, I’ve personally never seen anyone do it. But having data service in the tunnels and stations is a huge benifit to everyone.
No matter if you want to just skim social media, respond to email or get work done, it’s a boon to everyone’s productivity.
Uatu 07:21 on 2018-12-21 Permalink
I’ve heard conversations usually by some loudmouth adolescent or adult gasbag. But it’s good for emergencies etc. I’m just lamenting the elimination of one of the few public places where I don’t have to listen to idiotic conversations or dodge people watching a TV show while they’re walking.
Kate 07:55 on 2018-12-21 Permalink
Faiz Imam, I bet you’ve seen dozens of people having phone conversations, but they’re not doing it with their phone to their ear, they’re talking quietly into an earbud microphone you can’t even see. I ride the metro daily and often see people doing this.
The main drawback is that you can’t readily distinguish between someone on the phone and someone muttering to themselves, but so long as they keep the dialogue quiet this sort of doesn’t matter.
Blork 09:42 on 2018-12-21 Permalink
I’ve actually seen/heard people having regular ear-to-the-phone conversations on the Metro, and they tend to be yelling, which is highly annoying. There’s a certain type of person who does not give AF how loud they are, and those people seem to gravitate to my orbit. :-/
Michael Black 11:27 on 2018-12-22 Permalink
Wait, I was sure I’d been on a new train on the green line. And yesterday I did get on at Lionel-Grioux. Just as I noticed Santa Claus (he was wearing red, and had white hair and a beard) was waiting in the wrong spot, where you aren’t supposed to stand so passengers can get out, an Azur train pulled in, not aligning with the mark. So they are using the new trains on the green line.
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Kate 13:13 on 2018-12-22 Permalink
Michael Black, there are definitely some Azurs on the green line. Maybe one out of four or five trains now is an Azur. The story was about the blue line, where there are no Azurs yet, and where they can’t be used until the STM removes the barriers that shorten the blue line platforms. Unlike the old trains, Azurs aren’t modular so can’t be shortened to fit.