Transit to be free on Friday
Valérie Plante tweets that public transit will be free on Friday so people can get to and from the big climate march, and she’s just added that it will also be free off the island too. City employees are also being given the day off. The candidates in the Plateau mayoral byelection have agreed to suspend their campaigning for the day.
CTV predicts difficulty getting around town Friday afternoon.
walkerp 22:12 on 2019-09-25 Permalink
McGill not giving their employees the day off.
ant6n 23:13 on 2019-09-25 Permalink
@walkerp
Strike!
Daisy 11:39 on 2019-09-26 Permalink
They’re not being given the day off — they’re just being encouraged to take one of their personal days.
KB 14:13 on 2019-09-26 Permalink
I have been told I am permitted to go, but it will be counted as a vacation day.
mare 15:48 on 2019-09-26 Permalink
Getting there will be a major undertaking. If you’ve ever been to Osheaga (“only” around 60,000 people) you might know that a metro station can get jam-packed pretty fast, even though Jean-Drapeau station is built with crowds in mind.
I can only imagine the chaos in the Mont-Royal and Laurier metro stations, that both have very narrow exits with a limited amount of people being able to enter or exit.
When the platforms are full of people that can’t exit the station new metro cars are not allowed to enter and have to wait in previous stations.
Bixi is free too but there will be a severe lack of docking stations near the start location pretty soon, but Bixi might have mobile checkin people that move the bikes straight into trucks and trailers.
Ironically your best bet to get there might be a Jump, Lime or Bird, that you can just leave somewhere near Jean-Mance park or your own bike. Or walk from a metro station further away like Place des arts or catch a bus if you’re lucky and like to be “sardined”.
I’m not going myself, I can’t stand or walk slowly for hours on end.