Reduce STM services: Ensemble
Ensemble’s Lionel Perez thinks the STM should reduce services, ignoring the fact that if service gets worse, nobody will be able to rely on it, and ridership will shrink (as happened under Coderre).
Ensemble’s Lionel Perez thinks the STM should reduce services, ignoring the fact that if service gets worse, nobody will be able to rely on it, and ridership will shrink (as happened under Coderre).
JP 12:11 on 2020-12-19 Permalink
Yeah, I think they should leave as is…there are still people using it. The few people I know who still use it work at hospitals, one of them is a nurse.
At this point, reducing services, is just punishing people we need to get us through this.
Also, I think maintaining a certain level of service means buses and metros don’t get crowded as much.
qatzelok 13:57 on 2020-12-19 Permalink
Driver of car doesn’t understant the importance of transit. Denies climate change. Thinks that “the Chinese or Russians” are making it up.Wants to make Cote St-Luc great again.
EmilyG 14:20 on 2020-12-19 Permalink
Don’t reduce the STM’s services. How will people who don’t drive get around? And many bus routes still haven’t recovered from having had their hours reduced some years ago.
DeWolf 14:31 on 2020-12-19 Permalink
Infuriating. “Est-ce qu’on a besoin d’avoir un bus à toutes les cinq ou sept minutes sur toutes les lignes?” asks Lionel Perez, who clearly never takes the bus or metro. Thanks to his party’s cuts to STM service, very few bus lines run anywhere close to that often, even the busiest ones.
David86 20:28 on 2020-12-19 Permalink
A guy this plugged-in knows just how bad this would be for the STM.
Daniel D 22:12 on 2020-12-19 Permalink
Well, that was a disheartening read. Since the Pink Line obviously isn’t happening, those parts of the city underserved by rapid transit need better and more frequent bus services, not less of them. Hopefully this is just more hot air from an opposition who only know how to be contrary.
Kate 11:18 on 2020-12-20 Permalink
It’s very short-sighted. If and when we get a handle on Covid, a lot of people are going to need to go back to workplaces. If you want the city’s economy to do well, working people need to get around.
CE 21:03 on 2020-12-20 Permalink
I can only imagine how outraged Perez would have been had Plante proposed reducing bus service before he had made this proposal.