REM service needs to step up, transport minister’s office says

With Montreal's light-rail train network coming off a streak of four outages in as many days, Quebec's transport minister is calling on the group overseeing the service to step up its game.Last Wednesday, the Réseau express métropolitain (REM), which connects the South Shore to downtown Montreal, shut down for 45 minutes in both directions during afternoon rush hour.On Thursday, the service slowdown was due to a problem with one of the landing doors at a station. The next day, a broken piece of