Bus payment machines often broken

The STM union is concerned that so many bus payment machines are broken, just when the service is hurting from lowered usage.

I can confirm this is true. I don’t commute now, but if I need to go somewhere in town I usually take the bus – and roughly one third of the time I don’t have to pay.

Meanwhile, the STM is at pains to reassure us that the abolition of the “10 minutes max” system won’t trouble us a bit.