Reddit pulse / page 3
Every post from Reddit, newest first.
Someone walked faster than the cars on Mont-Royal during rush hour. People are using the bike lane, the bus lane's getting respect — which is wild for rush hour anywhere.
Big crowd on Sainte-Catherine around Centre Eaton this morning — turned out it was a fire drill. People with badges everywhere made it look like something bigger was happening.
REM absolute mess last night around midnight — inspectors telling people to switch trains with zero explanation about which ones are even coming. STM needs to bring back bus service instead of leaving people hanging.
heavy police presence in Outremont around 1:40 a.m. — sirens going non-stop for about 25-30 minutes. no details yet on what's happening but something's definitely going down.
Someone's been parked at Angrignon for three years asking the same question—what do those metal structures above the lot actually do? Nobody's seen them used once. Now their brother has the same question and they're determined to figure it out.
Reddit thread diving into whether forcing employees back to the office while letting them call in from a desk actually works. (Spoiler from the original question: probably not.)
Oxford Economics dropped its Global Cities Index, ranking Montreal 62nd worldwide. Governance score was our strongest at 90.0; economics came in at 67.0, environment at 66.5. Overall: 75.9.
Someone smelled terrible smoke at Eaton Center's metro level Wednesday afternoon—haze everywhere, security running around. No official word on what happened yet, but the posts keep coming in.
Someone's hunting for a coffee spot that does really fruity, co-fermented beans as a flat white. Checked Escape and Cafe Caron but they're too rich. Anyone know the place?
Travel food creator Mark Wiens just featured Montreal on his channel. City getting love from the big food-travel names.
More parking spots just opened at the Fairview-Pointe-Claire REM station. Making it easier to leave your car and catch the train.
Poulet Rouge's running a 2 for 1 and St-Hubert's got rotisserie chicken (breast or thigh) for $7.75 today only. both legit deals if you're scrambling for dinner.
tired of wondering what all those orange cones are for? conorange.com maps every active construction site in montreal so you can actually figure out what's going on. home hunters especially into this one.
Poulet Rouge locations are pulling massive lineups at Carrefour Laval while competing restaurants sit empty. One visitor couldn't even get a plate after hitting multiple locations. The obsession is real, but nobody can quite explain why.
Pepper, Montreal's celebrity raccoon, is back in the conversation. The beloved local trash panda has been spotted around the city again, and people on Reddit can't get enough of the updates.
Montreal hosted the UCI worlds and people are still buzzing. One photographer caught the Colombian team, Spanish team, Team Great Britain, and even wished Tom Pidcock good luck before the race (he nearly finished second). McNulty took the win.
Someone's had it with people blocking metro car doors while passengers are trying to exit. The plea: let people out first, then get in — and yes, there are literally arrows on the floor at several stations showing how. Apparently we still need the reminder.
The iconic cross atop Mount Royal will be unlit for the next year while the city does major maintenance work on the landmark. Won't see it glowing at night for a while.
A new city report lays out just how bad Montreal's infrastructure problem really is. Nearly 4,000 km of streets and over 9,000 km of water and sewer pipes are degrading despite $700 million spent on maintenance in 2025 alone. Expect to see construction all over.
Dany Bélanger, who runs the Banana Plantain food truck, lost $20,000 after the Caribo-Latino festival got cancelled July 30 — less than 24 hours before it was supposed to open. He says there's no way to get his money back.
