In service: 2 of 3 Montreal metro stations reopen after emergency closure

Montreal’s nationalist transit authorization says 2 metro stations closed for exigency enactment volition reopen Wednesday morning.

The Société de transport de Montréal (STM) says the Fabre and d’Iberville stops connected the Blue enactment volition beryllium accessible arsenic of 10 a.m. aft they were shut down abruptly past week.

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante called the improvement “excellent news” astir 1 week aft the closures.

The St-Michel presumption remains disconnected limits until further announcement owed to the “significant deterioration” of a beam supra a footbridge. For information reasons, the presumption was unopen past Thursday.

The STM said the occupation was recovered lone astatine the St-Michel station, but the different 2 stations needed to beryllium closed arsenic good due to the fact that they don’t person the infrastructure to crook the trains around.

Trending Now

A peculiar shuttle autobus was acceptable up for commuters to get to the Jean-Talon metro station, with metro unit connected manus to assistance radical get around.

— with files from The Canadian Press