Like many other major cities, Montreal is in the middle of a transportation revolution. While each city may be at a different phase of that revolution, they do all have one thing in common: namely, what they’re doing with their old fleets of vehicles. After all, it’s tough to see how any one of them could even go about selling their diesel buses when most other places in the world are steadily moving towards hybrid and fully electric alternatives. But unlike those unusable old diesel buses, old subway cars seem to be causing quite the creative commotion when it comes to their repurposing potential, leading some of them to be spared the fate of the scrapyard.

On top of those large-scale proposals, there are also many small-scale possibilities for the old subway cars. For instance, a local technical college wants to turn a car into a café and shared workspace for students, while a park in rural Quebec called Reford Gardens wants to incorporate one into its grounds. Montreal wants to keep their old subway cars around as local icons. Even if they are not all salvaged, having some of them around is good for the citizens and maybe even good for the environment. Once they go to the scrapyard, there’s no guarantee that their disassembled parts will ever be reclaimed. At the very least they won’t be dumped at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, as New York decided to do with 2,500 of their old subway cars many years back.

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