Major outages disrupt REM service on Friday morning

The Réseau express métropolitain was back up and running around 11 a.m. after outages plagued most of the network Friday morning. The first alerts about outages were issued on the REM’s X account and via text message alerts at 5:34 a.m. At the time, there was no service along the network between the Du Ruisseau station in St-Laurent and Édouard-Montpetit in Outremont. A few minutes later, the outage had extended from Bois-Franc to the McGill station, and at 6:26 a.m. a