The MASSIVE Underground City | Exploring Montreal's RESO (Feb 2023)
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- A downtown Montreal walk around the RESO, a huge 32 km (20 miles) "underground city". I start at Place Des Arts and try to navigate my way up to the Eaton Centre without getting lost.
Recorded in 4K at 60 FPS on Friday, February 3, 2023.
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I recall waaay back in the 90's visiting Montreal for a couple of days of a Canadian vacation, and thinking it was rubbish for shopping... not knowing until we left that most of it was underground! 🤦A whole other mysterious World hidden away under our toes 👀*What we did see of the above ground City was nice though!
Montreal is a world class city and Canada s fashion city with international designers and unique boutiques even in the 90 's ... i am from Montreal , and people have always been into european fashions from Paris and Italy and local designers .. not USA the rubbish clothes
(As some who is familiar with the Path) Yelling at my tv screen: No, Johnny walk straight and don't take the escalator!!! 😄
Nice that you were able to get out and explore without actually having to go out to explore
But it did require going out lol
The RESO makes sense to be connected to the subway since the underground covers 32 km downtown ... JUst read the signs RESO and where you want to go ... pretty easy . The RESO is busy on working days not on the weekend except between the train station and connected hotels
The most challenging walk for sure
The RESO is built for people who can read
Your video was really beautiful and spectacular, my dear friend, thank you for sharing this beautiful video❤❤👏🏼
He is like a chicken without a head .. i live in Montreal and the RESO has signs everywhere ... you need to follow the signs not guessing
Awesome video Johnny! Thanks for sharing!
Hi johnny I'll watch this in the morning hope you have a great Sunday chat with you all soon!😊
New subscriber. Great content. Thanks for the daily videos.
Welcome aboard!
Thank u so much. Life saver. It was hard finding this on my own. You could have edited it so I didn't get lost with you😂😂. Great video. Thanks again
"So this is Exploring Montreal on Hard Mode." LOL Johnny, great underground explore video
Absolutely beautifully filming captured lovely content vloggs .. appreciate your effort and hard work for sharing and showing around, great work Sir .. TQSM
Just done most of this route in reverse. Fully agree Johnny, signage is quite hopeless! It's only my wife's sense of direction that got us out of this bizarre place. Only came down to this warren to avoid Storm Betty that's soaking the city above.
I used to walk around this place every week with my mom back around 2011-2013... I visited again for a few day for a convention with my friends about 5 years ago... I miss this place.
Haha I grew up in Montreal and still get lost in there 🤣 I got lost at the same place as you in Place Bonaventure to get to Centre Eaton! 😂 I don't know why they can't make this more obvious and put more signs... Nice video!
💙⛲The blue water fountain is so beautiful ! And the shopping is very different and huge . 🛍🎁😲😀. In and out Montreal c'est super !💝
I also feel like I'm lost. But I enjoy striding virtually with your show. 😁
Very very good video
In theory even String Theory (which is nothing more than an unproven and unfalsifiable hypothesis at this point - a sheer philosophical reverie in mathematical form) is doable.
P.S. Thanks for the walking tour. 👍🏻
Thank you that was pretty enlightening as well as enjoyable. Virtual walk-through underground Montreal - nice.
Big changes since 1968 ! 54 years since I lived in Montral. Metro was started in 1966, and ran along St Catherine St. with large underground shopping area beneath Dominion Square. I don't rember getting lost ! But they definitely need to make the signage bigger today. Great video. Nice to see the vast improvements and expansion of the underground, metro, subway !! Many thaks.
I really want to visit there someday. I think indoor cities are really cool. the only thing that kinda drags about it is the lack of benches for resting. not that I need it, but it would be nice for the less physcially active and elderly. I also think it would add more life to the place. I love getting lost in places like this and it'd be nice just to sit when im away from the crowd
good morning everyone
Thank you for this video. We're travelling to Montreal next week and it's great to see that we'll need to be extra prepared when we go to the RESO. lol.
I'm from Quebec. I speak french natively. They could have put some english words to help outsider. We got a lot of tourist in Montreal so there no sort of excuse for that. Even our law and french protection don't justify that.
Great video but correction Montreal's RESO is bigger than the Path in Toronto. In fact it's the world's largest. The parts along the green line are definitely more interesting than the orange line area and much bigger too.
Ah, the continuous section is not bigger... I should have clarified that. We could easily have a bigger system if we included the connected areas at Bloor-Yonge to Manulife (Bay Station), in Montreal that would be part of the RESO.
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At 7:26 The women asking the direction for the Metro (S'il vous plait le Métro est par où?) she's on the good way to get Place des Arts station :)
Great video Johnny. I think the english translation of RESO is long hallways of nothing.
lol
I have watched a few vids of the Montreal Underground City, and can never figure out how much is just enclosed at street level and how much is actually below it. Obviously the subway stations are below street level, and it looks like some of the walkways and commercial spaces, but a lot just looks to be buildings on and above the street level outside. Would love to visit someday.
I've only been to some parts of the RESO but I was with someone that knew the way around. Thanks for getting lost for me. Now if I'm ever on my own, I'll try to stay around the Eaton Centre and the Gare Centrale. I think there are a couple of other more interesting parts of the RESO....I just don't know how to get there.
Helloo good morning Johnny Strides...yoo its been awile my flavourite T.O centric patroller lol, truly hoped all is going pretty awesume and excellent for you in all your glory! This was a great livestream underground walk you take us along for on Montreal resto system that for sure I need to checked out as I planned to visit Montreal sumetime in mid-Sept...love the style of the tunnels and totally have to agree with you cause it's not as big as our path system. Thanks and cheers
Love the Underground city!! Great video!!! I❤
Really enjoyed this video! At about 18 minutes in when you were going through a desolate stretch, I was hoping you would have ended up on the parallel route about a block to the south. Instead of the utilitarian corridors, you would have gone through the impressive World Trade Centre.
18:00 mark straight out of a Stanley Kubrick film.
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Well there's the city, and it's underground, and they have an adventure.
The end.
Hello I am currently watching your video, I am from Montreal some of the Réso you do have to go through you have to go through to get from Gare Centrale (central Station) to where the Bell Centre is located
To get from Bonaventure Metro to the Eaton center you should have gone towards gare centrale (central station)
Maravilha!
wow its like a hidden secret
Sporadically in this video there seems to be the same old man walking with a cane noisily....click...click...click... no?
Great job.
The RESO network is just one long, mostly boring, underground network and, as you said, no proper signs to guide anyone, even for those who speak french.
What do you do if you don’t speak French?
The Eaton Center is in Toronto isn't it?
I would be SOOO lost lol! It REALLY is like a city under, barely anyone tho surprisingly for an early afternoon. How did you find the people there as a non french speaker? were they helpful?
Most people in Montreal speak English 😊
@@AnnieIsaLau Most of Montrealer (90 %) speak at least English and French and probably more then 25 % speak a third language ( Spanish, Greek, Italian, Chinese, Russia, Etc. Mtrl is the second city as cosmopolitan after Toronto I am a french speaking guy and I am sure any tourism can ask a ? to a french guy and he or she will immediately switch to English and will answer to you with a big smile Also reseaux can mean only the sub urban metro not the sub urban network (witch mean not having to go out for travel to main buildings in down town) It mean tunnel or passerel to move from one location to another one inside a warm temperature on a rainy day or winter time
I thought signs had to be bilingual in Quebec
This is on May 18, 2023
Your in Montreal?
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Signage is horrible.
You always want to go to Eaton center in Montreal ... is it an obsession? There are so many more sophisticated shopping malls .... i understand Toronto has only one shopping mall
If by always you mean the one time I stuck my head into it on St Catherine Street and for it being the destination of this walk as that is where McGill Station is... then sure 🙄
@Jean Bolduc, we have several shopping malls in Toronto, soI don't know where you get your info from.
@Jean Bolduc, we have several shopping malls in Toronto, soI don't know where you get your info from.
With a little spice and drama this video would be a classic cult movie.
lol
Help me, I need your help for this time😥
Your Toronto expertise is encyclopedic, and no one would expect you to have similar expertise about Montreal. But in this video it’s clear you carried Toronto around in your head and expected Montreal to work the same way. It doesn’t. The Underground City is not the PATH network. It’s far more integrated with the Metro. Not the “subway”, but the Metro. Its signage is more diverse. You walked by nearly every single overhead or wall-hanging wayfinding sign that wasn’t a RESO-branded sign, often complaining that there wasn’t enough wayfinding signage. There was-often overhead with arrows pointing to places you kept trying to find. And since, as you said in the video, you don’t speak French, you deserved to have given yourself-maybe not in Montreal, but perhaps before you left Toronto-1.) more time learning about Montreal and the places and activities you intended to experience while you were there, and 2.) a basic brush-up on French. Those two things would have aided you so much in the city (and in the RESO.) Lack of preparation aside, though, as an ex-New Yorker living in Chicago for the past two decades, in this video you really reminded me of many of my fellow NYC natives. They (and I about 20 years ago) often carry NYC around in their heads when visiting other places, and as a result miss a lot things about those other places. Next time you’re in Montreal, if you kill Toronto in your head while you’re there, I bet you’ll have a better time of it.
I think comparing the RESO to the PATH (something Montreal viewers love to do in my comments) is only natural and that was a perspective I tried to bring into the video. The sporadic and inconsistent RESO branded signage was certainly worth noting and commenting on. It is certainly not a complete, or cohesive network nor is it intended to be, but there's nothing wrong with highlighting that.
This was a spur of the moment, "$1" trip (booked on a livestream) and I made it abundantly clear I'm not attempting to give any type of Montreal tour guide experience in the videos from the onset, so the expectations were set. It was simply what I experienced (as an English speaker) which is a perfectly reasonable way to experience anywhere IMO. And the entire point of this video was to see if I could navigate it with minimal planning and not stopping for 2 minutes at every sign trying to make sense of anything. You'll notice I kept moving for the most part, that's part of the fun in exploring and making a video that doesn't grind to a halt every 4 minutes.
Cheers,
And as for the use of metro & subway they can be used interchangeably. When Europeans call our streetcars trams I certainly don't see any need to correct them, they're not wrong.
@@JohnnyStrides you know I’m a fan and I’m not trying to be a Montreal apologist although I love the city very much. But I think you have your answer. You can’t parachute into a city that speaks primarily a language that you don’t and expect things to be easy. Francophones sure can’t do that if they are visiting Toronto. Montreal deserves the same kind of respect in preparation, including linguistically. Which is why I pointed out it is just not the subway. That’s Toronto. It’s the metro, and it’s a matter of respect. Don’t be THAT Torontonian.
@@chicagocarless Fair points but I'd have to agree to disagree on that. Metro is in the name, but it *IS* a subway so calling it the subway is fine. As is visiting Quebec as an English speaker, I never did anything to disrespect their societal conventions while there and was as polite as can be (at least by my standards lol). I take that same attitude when traveling anywhere, and I usually learn the basics which I do know in French... no need to expand on that for a 2 day trip IMO.
I fully respect your opinions though and appreciate your viewership (I don't always take the time to bang out replies to these so hopefully this conveys that).
Cheers,
LOL
Right off the bat.. look at how much nicer montreal stations are than Toronto.. Toronto sucks..lol
Never heard of this city either and I was there last year
They're generally nicer for sure but we have some gems... *some* lol (Rosedale, Davisville, Musuem and a lot of the newer ones).
@kramer911, where the almighty frak are you from that's better than Toronto?🙄
Guy-Concordia metro station maybe the ugliest station. @@JohnnyStrides
-26° is not that cold. Think about people in Yakutsk or Yakutia, going out when its -40° or even more LOL Over there, school is cancelled only when its colder than -50°C xD
This underground network is like a nightmare to me, narrow pathways with screens playing commercials everywhere and "people" (mostly npcs) that cant be avoided.. Id rather walk outside with clothes that are suited for that weather :) Moving your body actually keeps you warm, in case you didnt know lol
This stinks capitalism honestly, and I bet it must be very loud when crowded. No thank you.
Honestly nothing special : shops and restaurants and elevators.. the same old things we see basically everywhere.
I would only give credit to the ones who built this though ! Must have taken a long time (and loads of money), effort and energy so props to those hard workers.
Oh and also honorable mention to those who actually CLEAN that place everyday. It looks pretty good mostly thanks to them :)
if this was in France you would see trash everywhere, and cigarettes and used condoms 🤣😂
Montreal métro makes the Toronto subway a living JOKE
When the TTC is running properly without interruptions (which is rarer these days) I'd say one isn't necessarily better than the other especially when you consider the overall transit network in Toronto is vastly superior with higher frequency bus routes, more of them and streetcars etc.
@Randy C, where have you been that you can say that our subway system's a joke? It can rank with the best subway systems on the planet (and our PATH system is better prepared than that of Montreal's, IMHO.)
@@Neville60001 Best systems on the planet ? The metro in Montreal goes to areas of the city where it's actually used. The design and fuck ups by conservative gov fucked the TTC royally
@@randyc7351, as Johnny said, the buses and streetcars more than make up for that; the TTC doesn't have to have subways going _everywhere_ 'just because' to suit morons like you. And if people like you really cared, then why didn't people like you support David Miller when he wanted to build Transit City? Also, I said it was _one_ of the best systems on the planet.
@@Neville60001 Wow. Name calling.... absolutely embarrassing. I compared metro in MTL and the Subway in Toronto. Not your busses ( which everyone hates ) I did support David Miller and Transit city.
Jonny you've got to do your due diligence before you visit a place like Montreal.
Care to explain? I did just fine IMO and the entire point was to challenge myself to navigate the RESO with minimal preparation. I stated in all of my Montreal videos these weren't informative tours or anything.
You did it totally in the wrong way.
1- you did not take the time to even try to read and understand the maps
2- you should have taken a guide OR a paper map with you
3- some comments are not justified because of your lack of knowledge of the reso.
4- you were totally off on some great discoveries because of my above comments
5- last.... not a good planning NO sorry...no planning at all. Totally disorganised
That was the entire point.. to try to navigate it WITHOUT planning. The wayfinding is absolutely terrible which shows in the video.
Did you not listen to when I explained how I intended on navigating it? lol
Sometimes the best way to explore places is to just show up.
In a way Yes, but reading the maps and paying attention a bit more would have given you a more enjoyable visit and discovered great areas.
It still would have been a visit without planning
@@JohnnyStrides