They don't come every 6 minutes (although there are Plenty of half empty express buses passing marked Blainville), and when they do come they are too full to get on. 25 people waiting in the -30 weather and they let on maybe 2 or 3. Ah but that doesn't mean people don't scramble in the back door, without paying, therby filling up the bus so the people waiting in line can't get on in the front! And the drivers just ignore it.. (not my job) but they aren't standing in the cold.

Don't even get me started on the increasing number of people who wear mega-backpacks..on a crowded bus and dont' realize they are taking up the space of 2 people!

Yesterday, i forgot to buy my metro pass, sep 2nd, and I ask him if I can take the bus, i need to go to school. And the guy said no.

Then today, I went to McGill Metro station to ask where to take the STM card photo. (They switch places almost every year, before was at Berri-QUAM, then Eastern Center, and now 2020. ) The dude was like : open your eyes, it's right there.

idk if it's me being sensitive, but his compliments are not really friendly, and he kept acting with his hands like he is opening his eyes while im walking away. When i got to the place, there are only 2 computers, and the line was really long.

A while ago, they don't even put on their uniforms, and im not going to go though that. Im just gonna talk about their attitude.

I took 165 today to get back from the metro concordia. A 165 stoped like 7-8 meters away from the stop. I was thinking that it's gonna come to the stop later. I was in a line, and the bus driver just opened the door, and let random ppl to get on the bus while 20 ppl are waiting in a line. Im not saying that i lost something, but come on, you are suppose to stop at a STOP.

Then I asked the driver in english, "aren't you suppose to stop over there" i pointed at the stop. Then he was like " Qu'est-ce tu veux ! " I thought he didn't understand what i was saying, and I repeated my question in french, he replied " Tu montes ou tu decends" and i got pissed off badly. I showed him a fuck you, and I said go fuck yourself in french to him, and i asked him his employee #, it was 14-027. (the bus # instead of the employee #)

So this was my recent experiences with STM, without mentioning the period of time when i was living at St-anns, when it snows, the 211 or 221 doesn't even COME at all. I once waited for 60 mintues in the wind.

They have raised the monthly and ticket pass' price from 28 $/month, 5 years go, to 36 $/ month.

However, my bursary decreased, and i got more loans. The bus drivers ask for a raise of salary. But the miminum wage it's only 8.75 $, whiout considering that the bus drivers has 3-4 kids and their wages are between 15 -20 $/hour just for driving a bus.

And a few other times a year, I wish I had a car for the reason you mention - to get places the STM doesn't go.

In any case, striking doesn't help the STM employees long-term. Don't they realize that they erode their customer base every time they shut service down? Dumb, dumb, dumb.

I had a car when I lived in the burbs. But having one and living DT MTL, is pointless and only an expense. Only once or twice a year do I go "damn I wish I had a car right now" because I need to go somewhere, otherwise, I don't need it and don't regret getting rid of mine 12 years ago.