Rabouin launches ad campaign for mayoralty
Luc Rabouin launched his first ad campaign for the city mayoralty Wednesday.
For starters, Rabouin promises to focus on buses, not bikes.
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DeWolf 11:30 on 2025-06-19 Permalink
I wouldn’t expect Rabouin to neglect bike infrastructure, but he’s absolutely right that improving bus service should be a priority. In fact that’s been one of the biggest and most mysterious failures of the Plante administration: even before the pandemic and the CAQ’s financial mismanagement, they improved metro service but neglected the buses.
It will be interesting to see how Martinez responds to this, because her campaign up to this point has been entirely negative: bashing everything Projet has done while offering no real alternatives.
Also, just watch all the anti-bike people suddenly turn into anti-bus people when it becomes clear that improving bus service means adding more reserved lanes to major streets. We already got a taste of that with Queen Mary and St-Urbain.
Ian 12:36 on 2025-06-19 Permalink
Reserved lanes are great – seriously, we know that most of the service disruption on bus routes is simply dealing with traffic.
That said, focusing on getting the buses back to a regular schedule would be better. Kind of a letdown to see him already deflecting blame upwards with “While he said he would also like to increase bus service, Rabouin said that would require the support of other levels of government.”
What’s the point of bus lanes if we can’t even return to pre-covid service? The Parc “express” bus only comes every 15 minutes, if that. And that’s WITH a bus lane.
CE 14:13 on 2025-06-19 Permalink
I’ve been pretty happy with the Plante administration but my biggest disappointment has been around public transit, especially the buses. I was more or less satisfied with the service pre-Covid but it has been atrocious ever since. I’ve been finding that there are more and more times where it’s faster to walk than to take a bus. A lived at Papineau near Sherbrooke and there were times I would get off the Metro and it would be 20 minutes until the next 24 would come. In the past, there would have been few times where you’d have to wait more than 7 or 8 minutes. I felt like I was living in a small city with buses that come every 30 minutes again!
James 17:31 on 2025-06-19 Permalink
Smart move for Projet to not campaign principally on a pro-bike platform. It would be too easy for Ensemble to continue their anti-bike messaging.
By putting the emphasis on buses, it forces Ensemble to decide if they want to be the anti-bus party as well as anti-bike.
Orr 22:11 on 2025-06-21 Permalink
FYI on Parc avenue there are 16 buses northbound (80 + 480) between 4 and 6 pm. during rush hour.
Outside of rush hour tho it would be nice to return the 80 to a frequent-service bus route.
CE 22:58 on 2025-06-21 Permalink
That’s one bus more or less every 13 minutes. In the past, the schedule at stops during rush hour on the 80 used to not show the times the bus would arrive during rush hours because they came so often. Every 13 minutes during rush hour is definitely not frequent service. That shouldn’t even be considered frequent service during off-peak times.