Mostly cribbed from last year’s guide.
Here’s what to expect from the Montreal-area transit authorities for service this holiday season, including special holiday service schedules and free service days.
Once again, I ask that you have some sympathy for the bus or metro driver who has to work during the holidays getting whiny vomiting drunk people from A to B in thick snow.
Last year’s guide seems to have been well received, so I’m doing it again.
Here’s what to expect from the Montreal-area transit authorities for service this holiday season, including special holiday service schedules and free service days.
Once again, I ask that you have some sympathy for the bus or metro driver who has to work during the holidays getting whiny vomiting drunk people from A to B in thick snow.
As the holidays approach fast, radio stations are switching to all-Christmas-music formats, malls are packed with desperate last-minute shoppers, and TV starts to suck really bad.
What better time to contemplate that most exciting of holiday traditions: complicated transit service schedules!
Fear not folks. Below is a day-by-day guide to what you can come to expect from the Montreal-area transit networks. Take a glance at it if you’re planning to take a bus anywhere near Christmas or New Year’s this year.
And have a bit of sympathy for that bus driver who has to spend midnight on New Year’s Eve stuck at a traffic light handing out transfers.