COMPLAINS * Canada - Suburban transit users spin wheels
Bus-stop delays; Rush-hour travel can be trying for passengers when no bus lanes exist. Off hours? Don't ask
Montreal,QBC,CAN -The Gazette, by JAMES MENNIE -June 3, 2008: -- ... The city of Montreal is to unveil its 20-year, $8-billion transportation plan this week, and make public an environmentally friendly blueprint that theoretically will lure commuters away from their cars... The equation consists of improving the quality and frequency of on-island public transit, while re-establishing tolls on bridges in an effort to reduce the 1.2 million automobile trips made daily to and from the city by suburban motorists - a number that increased by 41,000 between 2003 and 2006... But off-hour, suburban transit - on Montreal Island or in the 450 area code surrounding it - is where die-hard commuters are forged, not bred... While waits for buses on residential routes in Laval still vary from 20 to 40 minutes, commuters now have the option of driving to one of the three subway stations, then continuing to Montreal underground... Laval transit authorities calculate that 2,000 of the 30,000 commuters who use the line daily are new users of the public transit system. Before the stations opened, public transit ridership in Laval was pegged at 25,000 people a day... (Photograph by : MARCOS TOWNSEND/The Gazette - Commuters wait for their buses yesterday at the RTL bus terminal in Brossard. Off peak hours, suburban riders face long waits.)Labels: passengers complains
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