<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The exact term for REM would be LRRT (Light rail rapid transit) that is between a RRT (Rapid rail transit, Subway / aerial metro, up to 35000 passenger/hour per direction) and a LRT (Light rail transit / tram, up to 8000 passengers/hour per direction)<br class=""/><div class=""><div><br class=""/></div><div>OSM does not have this name, so choosing any between LRT and subway would be fine for me.</div><div><br class=""/></div><div>By the way I am a teacher for transit courses at Polytechnique Montreal (CIV6707A and CIV6708)</div><div><br class=""/><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 15, 2023, at 8:38 PM, Jherome Miguel <<a href="mailto:jheromemiguel@gmail.com" class="">jheromemiguel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"/><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Something can be said as well for Scarborough RT. For me, Maybe a practical distinction given REM and Scarborough RT has less capacity than let's say the Montreal Metro or Toronto subway which have the route=subway tag.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""/></div><div dir="auto" class="">Vancouver's SkyTrain is similar in design (shorter trains and small capacity), but tagged as subway.</div><div class=""><br class=""/><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 2:29 PM Martin Chalifoux <<a href="mailto:martin.chalifoux@icloud.com" class="">martin.chalifoux@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""/></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I think the REM is an LRT and not a subway by it’s design<br class=""/>
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> On Aug 15, 2023, at 4:14 PM, Jherome Miguel <<a href="mailto:jheromemiguel@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">jheromemiguel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""/>
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> Shouldn't the REM route relations be tagged as route=subway? It's currently tagged with route=light_rail, but shouldn't that be for LRT systems instead? Or is the tagging for practical distinction given these have capacity between LRT and subway? _______________________________________________<br class=""/>
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