Transit fares to rise by 2% in October
Transit fares over the urban community will rise by 2% on October 1. Here’s the new fare structure in PDF format, the STM’s increases being banished to page 33.
This brief letter to the editor in Le Devoir seems relevant here, apropos Quebec’s tendency to “gère souvent Montréal comme toute autre région alors que c’est une métropole multiethnique, multiculturelle, multilingue.” Every time I update the Covid numbers for the side column of the blog, I’m reminded that Quebec made Montreal its region #6. (This isn’t recent, and I suspect it was done during a PQ administration, but I admit I don’t know when the current numbering began.)
Josée Legault also worries about the fate of Montreal with the rentrée coming in a few weeks’ time.
Robert H 12:56 on 2020-07-31 Permalink
The letter you quoted was an astute critique of the “incompréhension” toward Montreal found in La Vieille Capitale. Another letter following Josée Legault’s column illustrates the mentality in question:
«Curiel Gab
Dé tout temps, l’objectif de Québec a toujours été de contrôler Montréal, d’assurer que la métropole ne devienne pas trop indépendante et que ne se développe pas une identité montréalaise qui pourrait défier l’identité nationale. Le reste on s’en fiche pas mal. Aux prises avec la Covid? On gère ça tout croche depuis Québec et si la ville a un des pires bilans en occident et bien soit. L’important c’est de contrôler.»
Too late about that identity question, though.
Tim F 06:30 on 2020-08-01 Permalink
I thought the whole idea was the ARTM was supposed to unify and simplify the fare structure throughout the metropolitan area. Not just unify them into one PDF file.
Kate 10:22 on 2020-08-01 Permalink
Of course it’s unified, Tim F! It’s all laid out in this 35-page document!