MONTREAL TRANSPORTATION |
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The city has two international airports. The primary airport is
Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (formerly Montreal-Dorval)
in the Dorval-L'Île-Dorval borough, which serves all commercial passenger
traffic. Further from the city is Montreal-Mirabel International Airport in
Mirabel, which was envisioned as Montreal's primary airport but which now
serves only cargo flights.
The Montreal Metro is a metro system, inaugurated in 1966 in time for the
Expo 67 World's Fair held in the city the following year. See List of
Montreal metro stations. Montreal is also served by a commuter rail system,
which is managed and operated by the Agence métropolitaine de transport. |
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| As is the case of cities, an important problem for Montreal is vehicular
traffic, especially from off-island suburbs such as Laval on Île Jésus, and
especially Longueuil on the south shore. The width of the Saint Lawrence
River has made the construction of fixed links to the south shore expensive
and difficult. Accordingly there are only four road bridges (plus one road
tunnel, two railway bridges, and a metro line), whereas the Rivière des
Prairies is spanned by eight road bridges (six to Laval and two to the north
shore). See List of Montreal bridges. |
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