Right now there are 8 fare zones for public transit in the urban area, and a claim is made here that we’ve seen before – that 700 possible fares exist depending on your specific needs. A reform is under way in which only three fare zones will apply but there are two major ideas in play, one of which makes Montreal zone 1, Laval and Longueuil 2, and everything else 3. The other is an awful-sounding arrangement which would slice up the island of Montreal into three sections like Neapolitan ice cream. Let’s hope cooler heads prevail.
Update: The ARTM is supposed to be doing public consultations soon in view of making access to transit fairer throughout the urban area.
Faiz imam 01:23 on 2019-11-10 Permalink
Seems like this is a leak of some proposals, not anything final or official, so we can’t take it with too much certainty, but what struck me was the costs being considered here.
$98 for people in the island, $89 without REM (basically same as the current passes)
$138 for south and north shore (similar to current passes for most people. with some exceptions)
and $177 for people further out (same ish for many people, but a huge jump for certain corners.
Overall its pretty similar, and suggests (assuming this is close to final) that the new infrastructure has not added any enough to the cost to break apart the system.
Uatu 13:12 on 2019-11-10 Permalink
I’m kinda annoyed because I’ll be paying 20$ more for the extra step of going to a train station and waiting in the cold for a connecting bus. I hope it will turn out better than I anticipate