Today’s tale of travelling in the metro

By mont_christelle
October 4th, 2005 @ 1:11 AM Uncategorized

The Montreal metro is awesome when it

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9 Comments so far

  1. JELIEL (unregistered) on October 4th, 2005 @ 8:43 am

    900-04 - I didn’t know that, thanks. I love trivia factoids :D

  2. DL Byron (unregistered) on October 4th, 2005 @ 4:34 pm

    Hello,

    I’ll be in Montreal later this week to visit and work on a book I’m writing about blogging. Thought it maybe a good time to meet up with Montreal bloggers, have a beer, talk blogs, etc.

    Let me know. I checked yulblog and I’ll miss the Wednesday meetup.

    Thanks,

  3. Frank (unregistered) on October 6th, 2005 @ 9:20 am

    Friday lunch on St Laurent near Zeke’s gallery, anyone? Been a while since I’ve been to Reservoir.

  4. Matt (unregistered) on October 6th, 2005 @ 11:23 am

    Do you know of any of the other codes they use on the loudspeakers? The 900-04 thing is fascinating…

  5. karl (unregistered) on October 6th, 2005 @ 3:04 pm

    http://metrodemontreal.com/index-f.html

    Pour tout savoir, To know everything

  6. Christelle (unregistered) on October 6th, 2005 @ 5:24 pm

    I didn’t find the codes right on the website but there is a list of codes on the forum there…

    http://www.metrodemontreal.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2030

  7. Ben Baril (unregistered) on October 19th, 2005 @ 7:18 pm

    Actually, today there were two jumpers. At aprox 08h04 at Vendome metro, actually, the train I was in came to a SCREECHING halt throwing every in the train forward.

    All of a sudden everyone is yelling and all the lights in the metro go out.

    The driver quickly begins to unlock the doors manually as people are literally shreaking.

    I didn’t want to have anything to do with it, didn’t want to see it or hear anything. I continued reading my book until he came to unlock our door. Thankfully I was in a car further from where the jump happened, and didn’t have to walk by it. Everyone, and we’re talking Vendome @ 8am, was standing watching. The buses were too full to get on, since the metros were down.

    I walked to work. It sucked. I’ve been jumpy all day. :(

  8. Jelly Bean (unregistered) on November 2nd, 2005 @ 11:43 pm

    http://www.jellybean.com

  9. TonyMaroni (unregistered) on November 30th, 2005 @ 1:03 pm

    Actually, there is a Metro-suicide study (available on line) which found that there were 129 “successful” suicides out of 323 “attempts” in the Montreal Metro from 1986 to 1996. This means that there were about 3 suicide attempts per month in the Montreal Metro during that ten year period, but that roughly only ONE in THREE “jumpers” successfully completed suicide. The other two in three were left shaken or disabled. People most often attempt suicide during rush hour at busy stations on a Monday.

    The study “Suicide in the Montreal Subway System: Characteristics of the Victims, Antecedents, and Implications for Prevention” can be seen at:

    http://www.cpa-apc.org/Publications/Archives/CJP/1999/Sep/mishara.htm

    -TonyMaroni


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