The Reseau express metropolitan (REM) train has a test run from downtown Montreal, on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. Montreal’s new light-rail train network stands out among major transit projects in Canada: it opened within a relatively short time frame and government didn't get in the way. Eight years after its conception, the first branch of what will become a 67-kilometre electric rail system — called the Réseau express métropolitain, or REM — is entering service this weekend, bucking a trend of faltering transit projects in several Canadian cities. Its proponents point to the REM as a...…The Reseau express metropolitan (REM) train has a test run from downtown Montreal, on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. Montreal’s new light-rail train network stands out among major transit projects in Canada: it opened within a relatively short time frame and government didn't get in the way. Eight years after its conception, the first branch of what will become a 67-kilometre electric rail system — called the Réseau express métropolitain, or REM — is entering service this weekend, bucking a trend of faltering transit projects in several Canadian cities. Its proponents point to the REM as a...WW…