{"id":487794,"date":"2026-02-20T14:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487794\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:22:12","slug":"rem-service-resumes-after-garbage-truck-hits-viaduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487794\/","title":{"rendered":"REM service resumes after garbage truck hits viaduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Service on the REM commuter train line was down between the Sunnybrooke and C\u00f4te-de-Liesse stations Friday morning after a garbage truck hit a viaduct near the Bois-Franc station. <\/p>\n<p>As of 7 a.m., however, service was gradually resuming across the whole network.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal police spokesperson Caroline Ch\u00e8vrefils said the collision happened at around 3:30 a.m. when the tuck hit some protective beams on the viaduct on Marcel-Laurin Boulevard north of Henri-Bourassa.<\/p>\n<p>Shuttle buses were deployed in the interim.<\/p>\n<p>Ch\u00e8vrefils said Marcel-Laurin, which was closed to traffic following the collision, reopened just before 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>In November, a truck hit the same viaduct causing minor damage and briefly interrupting train service. <\/p>\n<p>When these types of collisions occur, engineers typically need to assess the structural safety of the viaduct before the trains start running again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-487794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}