[Talk-ca] REM (Montreal) tagging

[Pierre-Léo Bourbonnais]

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)

OSM does not have this name, so choosing any between LRT and subway would be fine for me.

By the way I am a teacher for transit courses at Polytechnique Montreal (CIV6707A and CIV6708)

> On Aug 15, 2023, at 8:38 PM, Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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> wrote:
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>> 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> 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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