And instead of that ridiculous half-hourly STM bus service from Dorval train station, why not have those busses that pick people up in the parking lot extend their routes to the train station?

Because that's not their function. That's the parking shuttle, which is provided because it encourages the use of paid parking. There's zero incentive for the airport to extend service of that bus to the train station.

"with NO corresponding increase in the level of service"

Perhaps you missed the part of this post that discusses the three new bus routes that have been created. Metro service saw a significant increase in 2008, and many bus routes have seen their schedules expand over the past couple of years.

You may not consider the increases significant enough to match the price hikes, but they have been making improvements.

And instead of that ridiculous half-hourly STM bus service from Dorval train station, why not have those busses that pick people up in the parking lot extend their routes to the train station?

All transportation problems to the airport are solved with no added infrastructure, minimal added cost.

They've sure added a glossy coat of paint (Opus, green initiatives, their advertising rebranding) to the STM lately but it's still the same old crap. Packed in stinking trains like sardines. Verbally abused by clowns dressed up like cops. Paying more for monthly passes every year with NO corresponding increase in the level of service.

Plus ca change...

They can also have a political etc sense of a precarious seat at the table.

It is a great word.

Oh, I know, it's been privatized and the bunch of businessmen have to grab as much money as possible by all means possible...

(Remember, some years ago, when some suburban shopping mall - was it in Brossard or St-Bruno? - refused that taxis pick-up customers??? - And some 10 years ago, a Buffalo shopping mall refused transit buses so a girl working there was squished by a truck as she tried to cross the 8 lanes of shimmering traffic to go to work because the bus stop was not on the mall property)

As a former employee of Coach Canada, (the company which ran the airport shuttle before La Quebecoise) I can confirm to you that the only reason why La Quebecoise (or any bus company) wanted the airport shuttle run, was it allowed them to get their "foot in the door " inside Trudeau airport. Once on having being licensed to be allowed inside the airport, you can be allowed to depart there and pick up any groups, charters, etc.. $$$, the sky' the limit. Don't feel too sorry for cabdrivers, it's still cheaper and more convenient for any group of 2 or more to book a cab than it is to take a shuttle. Until a rail connection connects the airport and downtown occurs, cabdrivers can breathe easy.

1 letter = 1,000 in the MEDIA BUSINESS

OK, last time.

1 letter may very well equal 1,000 listeners. Fine. I won't necessarily concede the point, but I won't contest it, either. But, as Fagstein so correctly pointed out, 1 person clicking "join group" in Facebook does not equal a letter. Period. Full stop. For you to believe otherwise is...well, I'm not sure what it is, but it's certainly not grounded in reality.

Composing a letter, printing it, folding it, putting it in an envelope, slapping a stamp on it, and walking it down to the mailbox demonstrates a real expenditure of effort and interest on the part of the letter writer, and definitely catches the attention of people who are paid to pay attention to things like that. Clicking "join" indicates that you have nothing more than some idle time in front of your laptop and what may only be a passing whiff of a grievance. (Incidentally, an e-mail falls somewhere in-between those two extremes, unless it is a "form" e-mail that has been composed by only one person and sent by many different people. Those are quite a bit more like joining a Facebook group.)

And I still maintain that it just isn't possible, except in some kind of numbers Disneyland, for you to believe that your 601 Facebook group members (as of the time I compose this posting) somehow equates to 601,000 people who share your point of view, with even 10% of the passion that you clearly demonstrate on this issue.

Unless you can somehow demonstrate otherwise with some very hard-to-refute facts (i.e., some actual radio survey statistics), I will continue to insist that it is beyond the realm of reasonableness to believe more than 1 out of every 6 people - that's men, women, children, anglophone, francophone, allophone - in the Montreal region are a Daybreak listener, let alone a Daybreak listener who shares your very demonstrable interest in the fate of Nancy Wood. This, especially in light of the radio survey that I linked to in a previous post, which clearly shows that CBC Radio One (not Daybreak, the whole CBC Radio One) only gets about 250,000 listeners per week. You may not believe that post, but I'm putting up. If you have something that shows there are 600k+ individual Daybreak listeners per week, let's see it.

While I'm a big fan of Radio One, I think you give them far too much credit, if you sincerely believe your own numbers.

I'm off to Ottawa to spend a pleasant weekend at a curling tournament. I won't be checking in on this particular thread anymore so consider this your gold-embossed invitation to have the last word - because I get the impression that you seem like the type who really wants to have the last word.