One thing I love about Montreal is my general ability to get from one place to another in a decent amount of time.

I rely heavily on stm.info - the Société de transport de Montréal's website. They have an amazing tool called "Tous azimuts" (which means overall). Using Tous Azimuts, you can put information such as intersections, street addresses, important places (ie churches, hospitals etc), neighbourhoods or general areas, bus stop codes, metro stations... etc. You can customize if you want to take metro or bus or both or if you don't want to walk too much... it's fantastic!

I pay $61 a month for my Metro Pass. Apparently, it's one of the cheapest in Canada... someone at work said in North America. Hmm. In general, the service is great, and with the exception of some REALLY GROSS metro stations (yes Guy Concordia, that's you!), I feel safe and clean. However, there's a lot of work that needs to be done, and thankfully, over the next few years, there's a lot of work being planned... including the sound system, so we can understand what's being said over the loudspeaker (try a little English for maudit moi sometimes too, please!)

All this being said, the people on the metro and bus are always going to give me funny stories, and some will annoy me to no bounds.

Oh, I should also mention that many metro stations have unique histories and really cool public art - from the light structures at metro Namur, to stained glass, giant cement circles, and much more. The best way to learn about it is through this website... or by taking some really long trips ;)