REM sends bus shuttles to metro station set to close
The REM’s solution to the Deux-Montagnes line delays is to send bus shuttles to Côte-Vertu metro station, but that station will be closing for several months in 2020 so it can be integrated with the huge new underground metro garage currently under construction. I guess it’ll be a mess over there for awhile.
La Presse predicts that the bill for public transit in the Montreal area will double in ten years.
Kevin 09:20 on 2019-03-04 Permalink
I like that line saying the REM didn’t mention the Cote Vertu closure because it was already public.
At their technical briefing last week they also failed to mention all the stuff that starts in 3 weeks.
Faiz Imam 14:34 on 2019-03-04 Permalink
“La Presse predicts that the bill for public transit in the Montreal area will double in ten years.”
Good.
Quebec spends substantially less per capita on public transit than most advanced jurisdictions. We are even behind a place like Ontario, which Quebecers love to crap on.
This chart is one I find particularly damning. https://twitter.com/MariePlourde/status/1100049106284826624
$5650 per capita vs $1081.
And Ontario spends 75% of transportation spending on public transit, 25% on roads. Montreal is the opposite.
We need to dramatically increase funding, and both higher taxes as well as shifting money from the road network is needed.