Line-by-line guide to bus changes
Fagstein has compiled a line-by-line guide to changes in the STM bus routes that will take effect on Monday.
(Augh! They took away the 15 not long ago, and now they’re abolishing the 30?!)
-
Kate
Reply
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Nicholas on Line-by-line guide to bus changes
- Kate on Portuguese procession denied permit
- EmilyG on Portuguese procession denied permit
- Kate on Car crashes into terrasse in NDG
- MarcG on Car crashes into terrasse in NDG
- EmilyG on Playoffs bring record numbers to REM
- Kate on No cannabis stores in Kahnawà:ke
Pages
Other levels of gov’t
Sideblog projects
Enviro Montreal is a Bluesky feed that follows local environment news. Also available on Mastodon.
Archives
Pages rescued from montreal.com
Meta
Nicholas 18:13 on 2026-05-15 Permalink
Steve’s point regarding public consultation is very well taken. The initial consultations were very vague, asking about values. And then they just put the routes online and that was it. I actually went through them making comments, and then tried to find a place to send them and there was nothing. I don’t think they need to deal with every concern, but there are some things they did that they could have done better that I was going to suggest (and which would inconvenience me, personally, but I still support them!), but they didn’t care. (Also, Steve, if you’re reading this, you forgot the 485.)
Kate, while the 30 is going away, there’s more than enough service with other buses. The 31 will run on St Denis. The 56 will run on St Hubert (and Chateaubriand southbound in the Plaza). The 13 will run on Christophe-Colomb. And all this is right on top of the Orange Line. That’s one of the comments I had: the buses are too split across too many streets. The proposed service is each route runs about every 30 minutes (couldn’t make it exactly 30, could they….). Instead if they combined all the buses onto one street, they could run that route every 10 minutes. So people walk a little farther but get 3x the frequency.
I don’t really care which route they pick (though it should probably be Christophe-Colomb, farthest from the metro and least commercial slow traffic), but instead everyone gets infrequent service that sometimes comes at the same time: for example, northbound at Rosemont metro weekdays the 56 comes at 10:35 am, the 31 at 10:42 and the 13 at 10:45. Three buses in 10 minutes, then a 20 minute break until the next bus. The least they could do is time these to perfectly alternate so you always have some bus every 10 minutes, you just have to figure out which main street to walk to.