[Talk-ca] REM (Montreal) tagging

[Martin Chalifoux]

I am no expert. One distinction at least is that the skytrain is powered by the rails like a subway, and not from above the train cars like is typical of LRT. Another distinction is that subway use longer trains and LRT shorter ones, and on that the Skytrain use short ones. I guess there will always be a gray zone,
Another angle to look at it is the function in the transit network and the size of that network. For Montreal there is clearly a high capacity subway, and the REM being much lower capacity performs the fonction of a LRT. In Vancouver the skytrain is the highest capacity infrastructure although it has less than the Montreal and Toronto subways. 

Cheers.

> On Aug 15, 2023, at 8:38 PM, Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> Vancouver's SkyTrain is similar in design (shorter trains and small capacity), but tagged as subway.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 2:29 PM Martin Chalifoux <martin.chalifoux at icloud.com <mailto:martin.chalifoux at icloud.com>> wrote:
>> I think the REM is an LRT and not a subway by it’s design
>> 
>> > On Aug 15, 2023, at 4:14 PM, Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com <mailto:jheromemiguel at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > 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? _______________________________________________
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