Get ready, West Island. Not only does the REM’s Anse-à-l’Orme branch officially open on Monday after a weekend open house (finally making real the long wish of transit nerds to put the old Doney Spur rail line to good use), but the STM is timing its restructuring of the West Island and centre-north bus network to also take effect on Monday.
The STM has a tool online to look at routes and simulate trips on the new network. That will give you part of the story. Here’s the rest:
By the numbers
- 13 new routes
- 17 routes with major changes
- 19 cancelled routes (most of which are de facto replaced by new routes)
New routes: 20, 79, 120, 127, 155, 210, 214, 221, 222, 223, 227, 229, 230 plus 294 and 295 taxibuses
Major changes: 31, 68, 69, 70, 140, 160, 171, 177, 180, 201, 203, 204, 211, 216, 411, 468, 475
Eliminated: 19, 30, 46, 115, 126, 135, 146, 213, 217, 219, 401, 405, 407, 409, 419, 425, 465, 485, 968
Expanding to seven days a week: 13, 54, 56, 218, 411, 468
Overall, if you’re looking to save time getting to and from destinations on existing bus routes in the West Island, prepare to be disappointed. The simulations I ran all resulted in either the same projected travel time or even more. (The STM says about three quarters of trip will take about the same time, and of the rest three quarters will be shorter by five minutes or more and the other quarter longer by five minutes or more.)
Many of the routes I expected to get major overhauls to become straighter (205, 206, 208) change very little in the end.
There are some areas that will get bus service for the first time (though not as many as you might think), or service seven days a week where it was just during rush hours before, and others that will see more simplified routes that will save some time.
Some areas will see new bus route numbers, as several routes have been eliminated and others created that in large part reassemble parts of old routes.
For others in the West Island, the only noticeable change will be that the Fairview REM station will fully replace Fairview mall bus terminal.
Here’s what’s changing for each line:
- ◉ New route
- ✘ Eliminated route
- ▶︎ Extended route
- ⌥ Other route changes
- + Added service
- ⛔︎ Fewer stops
(To simplify things, I’m excluding the move from Fairview bus terminal to Fairview REM from the list of changes. Every bus that used to serve the terminal and will continue to exist moves to the Fairview REM.)
▶︎ 11 Parc-du-Mont-Royal: Permanently extended to Côte-des-Neiges métro. Some trips won’t take Ridgewood.
▶︎+ 13 Christophe-Colomb: Changes from rush-hour-only to all-day service, seven days a week. Extended north all the way to Henri-Bourassa, serves Henri-Bourassa métro. Departures every half hour.
17 Décarie: Unchanged, except to officialize a long-existing detour at the Côte-Vertu métro station.
⛔︎ 18 Beaubien: Same route but fewer stops. About every four blocks instead of every two. Some trips (18X) won’t serve the part of the route west of Beaubien métro.
✘ 19 Chabanel / Marché Central: Eliminated, replaced by 20.
◉ 20 Crémazie / Marché Central: New line shuttles between Marché Central and Crémazie métro, extending east to Frédérick-Back Park. Runs about every half hour, 4:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekends and holidays.
✘ 30 Saint-Denis / Saint-Hubert: Eliminated, replaced by augmented 31.
▶︎+ 31 Saint-Denis: Extended south to Sherbrooke métro, partially merging with 30. Hours extended until past midnight, still every half hour or so.
⌥ 41 Saint-Michel / Ahuntsic: Will take Lajeunesse to Fleury after leaving Sauvé métro.
✘ 46 Casgrain: Eliminated, replaced by 119.
51 Édouard-Montpetit: Some schedule adjustments, but the biggest change is many departures, particularly at rush hour, will only do the portion of the route west of Snowdon métro (51X).
⌥+ 54 Charland / Chabanel: Uses Legendre and Émile-Journault instead of Crémazie (but still serves Crémazie métro). Service 7 days a week and extended to 1 a.m., every 15 minutes during rush hour and 30 minutes otherwise.
⌥ 55 Boulevard Saint-Laurent: No more deviation through garment district.
▶︎+ 56 Saint-Hubert: Extended south to Rosemont métro, replacing that part of cancelled 30 (meaning it will no longer serve Crémazie métro). Service seven days a week, from 5 a.m. to past midnight.
64 Grenet: Unchanged.
⌥ 68 Pierrefonds: Splits in two. Western part remains 68 and goes from Anse-à-l’Orme REM to Pierrefonds-Roxboro REM. The eastern part is replaced by the new 79. Service west of St-Charles Blvd. will continue until 1 a.m. Still every half hour or so.
⌥+ 69 Henri-Bourassa: West of Henri-Bourassa métro, it continues on Henri-Bourassa to end at the Bois-Franc REM. Gouin part also replaced by 79.
⌥ 70 Poirier: More direct route eliminates Alexis-Nihon segment. Takes Côte-Vertu to Cavendish instead. Also eliminates loop on Beaulac/Thimens/Bégin. Retains shorter trips on weekends that end at Raymond-Lasnier and Beaulac except during rush hour (west during the morning and east during the afternoon).
⌥ 72 Alfred-Nobel: Uses Côte-Vertu Blvd. to get to Côte-Vertu métro directly instead of Décarie and passing Du Collège.
⌥ 73 Dalton: Becomes a loop route with new stops on Delmeade and A520. Hours unchanged.
◉ 79 Gouin: New route replaces the 68 east of Pierrefonds-Roxboro and 69 west of Henri-Bourassa, along those old routes. Runs every half hour (even at rush hour) from 4:30 a.m. to 1 a.m.
▶︎+ 92 Jean-Talon Ouest: Continues west to Royalmount/Montview to then terminate at de la Savane métro.
⌥ 100 Crémazie: Takes a more direct route between Du Collège métro and the Décarie circle.
✘ 115 Paré: Eliminated, replaced by 120.
▶︎ 117 O’Brien: Extends northern terminus to Gouin/Grenet.
⌥+ 119 Rockland: South end redirected via Bernard, St-Laurent and St-Joseph to Laurier métro. Service to U de M or Côte-des-Neiges métro becomes new 155.
◉ 120 Royalmount: New line, similar to 115 but northern terminus is moved to De la Savane métro. Weekday rush hours only, about every 15 minutes, northbound 6:30 to 9:30 a.m., southbound from 2:45 to 4:45 p.m.
⌥ 124 Victoria: Northern terminus moved to Côte-de-Liesse REM. Last departures around midnight instead of 1 a.m.
✘ 126 Thimens/Grenet: School bus route eliminated, replaced by 64 Grenet.
◉ 127 Alexis-Nihon: New line, from Bois-Franc to Du Collège along Henri-Bourassa, Cavendish, Poirier, Alexis-Nihon and St-Louis. Every half hour, from 5:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m.
⌥ 128 Saint-Laurent: Terminus moved closer to Côte-de-Liesse REM.
✘ 135 De l’Esplanade: Eliminated, duplicates 54.
▶︎ 140 Fleury: Extended west via Port-Royal, St-Laurent, Fleury, Meilleur to Marché Central.
✘ 146 Christophe-Colomb / Meilleur: Eliminated in favour of 13, 54, 140.
◉ 155 Wilderton: New line takes over southwest part of old 119, between Bates and CDN métro. Rush hours only, 6:30 to 9 a.m. and 3:30 to 6 p.m. in both directions.
⌥+ 160 Barclay: Takes U de M MIL campus and Beaubien instead of going to Outremont métro and Mile End. Will serve Canora REM station. Western terminus moves to Clanranald and David-Lewis instead of Vézina and Décarie. Becomes a frequent service bus during rush hours.
⛔︎+ 161 Van Horne: Fewer stops. Becomes a frequent bus service all day.
165 Côte-des-Neiges: Schedule changes. Fewer departures north during morning rush hour and more departures in the afternoon. More departures south during the morning rush hour.
⌥ 166 Queen-Mary: Will no longer climb Ridgewood Ave. at night.
⌥ 170 Keller: Takes de Louisbourg instead of Henri-Bourassa. Final departures in each direction (1 a.m. southbound, 1:30 a.m. northbound) cancelled.
⌥ 171 Henri-Bourassa: Eliminates part of route west of Côte-Vertu métro. Fewer departures during rush hour, downgrading it from frequent service to regular day service.
▶︎ 174 Côte-Vertu: Eastern terminus extended to Montpellier REM.
⌥ 175 Griffith: Terminates at St-François and St-Amour. Western part taken over by new 220.
▶︎⌥+ 177 Thimens: Extends east to Deguire and Thompson Blvds. near Highway 15, uses Thimens up to Marcel-Laurin. Becomes a frequent service bus during rush hours.
⌥ 180 De Salaberry: Eastern part moves to Sauvé as of Acadie (or maybe not? The PDF seems to have been updated last week to revert this change). Western terminus moved to Grenet/de Serres.
190 Norman: Unchanged.
195 Dorval / Angrignon: Makes permanent a detour used since last year in Dorval.
196 Parc-Industriel-Lachine: Unchanged, except moving the Côte-Vertu terminus stop closer to the station.
+ 200 Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue: Route unchanged (besides terminus moving to REM station), but service will continue until about 9/10 p.m. instead of ending at 7.
⌥ 201 Saint-Charles: The confusing loop route gets split in two. The new 201 uses an old 201 terminus at St-Pierre and Pierrefonds, and the other terminus is Beaconsfield train station, without the Antoine-Faucon/Brunswick detour from St-Charles. Service ends at 9:30 p.m. on weekdays and 7 p.m. on weekends and holidays.
▶︎ 202 Dawson: Eastern terminus extended to Côte-de-Liesse REM.
⌥ 203 Carson: No longer serves Lakeshore Hospital (new 230 will do that), instead taking over the former 201 segment east of St-Jean along Hastings Ave. to Maywood. Otherwise unchanged.
▶︎ ⌥ 204 Cardinal: Western terminus redirected to Des Sources REM (no longer serves Fairview), and no longer serves either YUL terminal or Stuart-Graham Blvd. (the new 214 will do that). A new section is added after the Dorval bus terminal to Fénélon Blvd. via Carson Ave. and Pine Beach Blvd. (meaning there are stops on both sides of Highway 20 at Pine Beach station).
205 Gouin: Unchanged.
▶︎ 206 Roger-Pilon: Terminus extended past Pierrefonds-Roxboro REM to Riviera St., replacing that part of the eliminated 213.
▶︎ 207 Jacques-Bizard: Serves far end of Jacques-Bizard Blvd. (Résidence St-Raphaël) in addition to existing route.
208 Brunswick: Unchanged.
⌥+ 209 Des Sources / YUL Aéroport: Will use Dawson Ave. instead of Bord-du-Lac in Dorval. Otherwise unchanged, but more frequent, with departures about every 15 minutes during rush hour and adding a couple of extra trips late at night — the final departures will be 12:30 a.m. northbound and 1 a.m. southbound.
◉ 210 John Abbott: The legendary 210 is back! Will shuttle between Anse-à-l’Orme REM station and John Abbott College via Chemin Sainte-Marie. The 419 will be eliminated. Runs every 10-12 minutes westbound during morning rush and eastbound during the afternoon, every half hour otherwise. Last departures in both directions at 6 p.m.
⌥+ 211 Bord-du-Lac: West of St-Charles Blvd. in Beaconsfield, takes Sherbrooke St. (except during rush hours when two buses an hour will take Elm Ave. and Montrose Dr. instead) to and from the Kirkland REM, replacing the 217/425. The Beaconsfield/Lakeshore part west of St-Charles is replaced by the 200 and 411, which get added service. The 211 will be more frequent, with departures every 10 minutes or less during morning (east) and afternoon (west) rush hours.
212 Sainte-Anne: Already modified to go between Ste-Anne-De-Bellevue train station and Anse-à-l’Orme REM.
✘ 213 Parc-Industriel-Saint-Laurent: Eliminated in favour of 225. Western tip will be served by 206 instead.
◉ 214 Stuart-Graham / YUL Aéroport: New line replaces the airport part of the 204. Serves Stuart-Graham Blvd., the terminal (via Albert de Niverville Blvd. and the new bus terminal) and Gare Dorval. Departures every 30-32 minutes from 5:30 a.m. to midnight. The entire trip will take 11 minutes (assuming no traffic). No relation to the former 214 Des Sources bus.
⌥ 215 Henri-Bourassa / Brunswick: Unchanged except eliminating a tour around the STM’s St-Laurent garage (takes Cousens straight to Guénette).
⌥ 216 Transcanadienne: Western terminus moves to Des Sources REM. (Service road west of Sources will be served by 225.)
✘ 217 Anse-à-l’Orme: Eliminated, replaced by 211 (west of St-Charles) and 200 (east of St-Charles)
⌥+ 218 Antoine-Faucon: Becomes an all-day, seven-day route, with departures every 15 minutes during rush hour (east in mornings and west in afternoons) and 30 minutes otherwise. Will take Brunswick Blvd. between St-Charles and Fairview instead of de Salaberry and St-Jean. Western end of the route will go to Palomino St. and Pierrefonds Blvd. instead of taking Des Cageux and Gouin.
✘ 219 Chemin Sainte-Marie: Eliminated, replaced by 229 (Kirkland part) and 223 (Baie d’Urfé industrial park).
▶︎+ 220 Kieran: Instead of only three departures a day in each direction and only 6 or 7 stops in each route, will expand to become an all-day weekday route, with service every half hour during rush hours, every hour between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., and one trip each way at 11 p.m. Adds more stops in industrial park west of Highway 13 (along Halpern, Sabourin, de Miniac and Cypihot streets), and stops along the Highway 40 service road in St-Laurent instead of shuttling non-stop to Du Collège métro.
◉ 221 Saint-Jean: New line replaces the southern part of the 201 route, between Fairview REM and Gare Beaconsfield (but takes St-Jean directly to Highway 20). Service every 15 minutes during rush hour and every 30 minutes otherwise until 9 p.m. on weekdays at 6:45 p.m. on weekends.
◉ 222 Senneville: New line shuttles non-stop between Anse-à-l’Orme REM and the two major industrial complexes near Senneville and Highway 40. It’s a 20-minute loop route that will have four departures total every rush hour.
◉ 223 Parc Industriel Baie-D’Urfé: New line connects industrial park with Anse-à-l’Orme REM. Loop route runs every 30-60 minutes depending on time of day between 6 a.m. and 11:30 p.m.
⌥ 225 Hymus: Takes Highway 40 service road between Sources and St-Jean instead of Brunswick; Takes Cohen instead of Thimens in industrial park to replace cancelled 213. A few more westbound departures in the morning but remains rush-hour-only with a single departure late at night.
◉ 227 Île-Bizard: New line, functionally replacing the old 407, but connecting to Fairview REM instead in Pierrefonds-Roxboro. It connects the far east end of Chèvremont Blvd. with Fairview along mostly the 207 route, except it takes de Salaberry Blvd. west to Brunswick Blvd. instead of east to St-Jean Blvd. Every half hour, morning rush southbound only (with last departure at 8:20 a.m.), afternoon rush northbound only.
◉ 229 Transcanadienne / Brunswick: New line serves Highway 40 service road between Anse-à-l’Orme and Fairview (but Brunswick westbound between St-Charles and Houde, to replace cancelled 219). Runs every 22-30 minutes from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays only.
◉ 230 Saint-Louis: New route serves Lakeshore Hospital (replacing that part of the 203), all of northern St-Jean (replacing that part of the 201), and St-Louis and Sources to Des Sources REM. Runs every 10-20 minutes during rush hour and 30 minutes otherwise. Service seven days a week until past midnight. Between Inglewood and Maywood in Pointe-Claire, most trips will take Douglas-Shand, but every other trip during rush hour (westbound in the mornings, eastbound in the afternoons) will use Donegani instead.
▶︎ 281 Taxibus Senneville / Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue: Adds a stop at the Anse-à-l’Orme REM station.
▶︎ 282 Taxibus Côte-Vertu Ouest: Adds a stop at Montpellier REM station.
◉ 294 Taxibus Parc-Industriel-Baie-d’Urfé: Serves the Anse-à-l’Orme REM station and the Baie-d’Urfé industrial park, in addition to the new 223.
◉ 295 Taxibus Beaurepaire: Serves the Beaurepaire train station and the Beaconsfield neighbourhood west of city hall and south of Highway 20.
354 Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue / Centre-ville: Unchanged.
▶︎ 356 Lachine / YUL Aéroport / Des Sources: Western terminus extended from Sunnybrooke to Pierrefonds-Roxboro REM.
⌥ 365 Avenue du Parc: Western terminus moves a couple of blocks to Grenet/De Serres.
⛔︎ 370 Rosemont: A small reduction in the number of stops.
376 Pierrefonds/Centre-Ville: Unchanged.
382 Pierrefonds/Saint-Charles: Unchanged.
✘ 401 Express Saint-Charles: Eliminated in favour of 201.
✘ 405 Express Bord-du-Lac: Eliminated in favour of 411.
✘ 407 Express Île-Bizard: Eliminated in favour of 227 to Fairview.
✘ 409 Express Des Sources: Eliminated, with parts taken over by 216, 220 and 475.
⌥+ 411 Express Lionel-Groulx: Expands to an all-day, every-day bus, with service every 8-20 minutes during rush hour and every 30 minutes otherwise. Takes Beaconsfield/Bord-du-Lac west of St-Charles instead of Highway 20, replacing that part of 211/405.
✘ 419 Express John Abbott: Replaced by the 210 that terminates at Anse-à-l’Orme REM.
✘ 425 Express Anse-à-l’Orme: Eliminated, new 211 is essentially the same route.
✘ 465 Express Côte-des-Neiges: Eliminated in favour of added service on the 165.
⌥+ 468 Express Pierrefonds / Gouin: Expands to seven-day service every 12-20 minutes during rush hour and 30 minutes otherwise, until 10 p.m. Takes Highway 13 and Côte-Vertu Blvd. (mostly non-stop) instead of Gouin and Grenet, which will shave 5-7 minutes off each trip.
⌥ 470 Express Pierrefonds: Will no longer serve Pierrefonds Blvd. west of Château-Pierrefonds (the 218 bus takes that over). Fewer rush-hour trips eastbound in the morning and westbound in the afternoon (but still every 12 minutes or less at peak), and will stop running after 10 p.m. (final departure from Côte-Vertu at 10:05 p.m. weekdays and 9:30 p.m. weekends and holidays). Articulated buses will be replaced by regular ones.
▶︎ 475 Express Dollard-des-Ormeaux: Extended west along Sources, Anselme-Lavigne, Fredmir and Pierrefonds (limited stops) to Collège Gérald-Godin. Extended east to Du Collège métro. Remains rush-hour-only.
✘ 485 Express Antoine-Faucon: Eliminated, with western part replaced by 218. This means no more direct connection between Fairview and Lionel-Groulx.
✘ 968 Trainbus Roxboro / Côte-Vertu: Eliminated, replaced by modified 468.
Exo changes
Exo, which serves off-island municipalities that aren’t served by the STL or RTL, will also make changes to its bus routes on Monday, for the Presqu’île sector (mainly Vaudreuil-Dorion and Île Perrot), mainly to connect with the Anse-à-l’Orme REM. The proposed elimination of buses to Côte-Vertu métro and CEGEP Gérald-Godin caused some controversy from people who haven’t gained a lot of faith in the REM (or whose trips would be longer with a REM transfer). After some pressure from Vaudreuil-Dorion and the local MNA, the best Exo could do for them is to keep those two buses running until the end of May so CEGEP students don’t have to figure out a new commute during exams.
What public consultation?
The STM prides itself on having conducted a public consultation on these changes. And while that looks great on paper, the reality is that there was little actual consultation done here. Meetings were held and questions asked of the public, but those questions were vague and obvious (Is it important for you to have more service to your school or work? Would you prefer more direct routes?) and no actual proposed routes were presented to anyone until everything was a fait accompli.
The best people can do is react after the fact (like we saw with Exo above, or like some Beaconsfield NIMBYs tried to do about the 211). And that doesn’t make me feel consulted.
IMPORTANT: STM bus route 180 will now be (largely) unchanged
–>western terminal will still be moved to Grenet/des Serres
https://www.stm.info/sites/default/files/media/Communications/2026/refonte-bus/lignes/ligne_180_0.pdf
The live schedules still show the 180 taking Acadie to Sauvé as of Monday. The PDF might be out of date.
60 cents or 25 cents if you had the student card when the new routes started 1980-11-10. I think monthlies were $16 and $7 – I’m sure of the latter as I still have a few.
The MUCTC had expected John Abbott to be a major trip generator but apparently missed the memo that the Kirkland Campus was gone by 1980. The original 200 ran from Fairview to Sainte-Anne via Hymus and Saint Charles then along Beaconsfield Blvd/Lakeshore. It was crush loads from day one. The 205 ran the same path from Fairview until Saint Charles where it turned north instead and made its way … eventually … to the train at Roxboro. Not bad service for the Kirkland Campus – good service to Terminus Fairview and good service to both commuter train lines. Too bad that campus wasn’t there any more.
So the MUCTC wayyy underestimated the demand from Terminus Fairview to JAC. Extra runs were added to supplement the usual 30-min off-peak/15-min peak headways but that wasn’t enough. I forget when the 210-John Abbott started, if it was early 1981 or Fall semester 1981. It, too, was packed especially in the morning. Most of the time, it was load-and-go in the morning and eastbound in late afternoon. Transit doesn’t make money as a rule, but when you break it down far enough, enough to get to at least the individual route level, you can be sure that the 210 (and the 211!) more than covered the costs of a single run and probably made enough revenue to contribute to capital costs.
The North Shore News is archived online but the [Lakeshore][News &] Chronicle is not which is too bad because the NSN died not long before the MUCTC expansion but the new service was well covered by the Chronicle.
Howdy!
Thank you very much. That must have been an awful lot of research on your own dime. I appreciate it immensely.
Well as you said, we the tax payers, were NOT consulted about the new bus route with the 211x portion running on the narrow and winding portion of Montrose where children ride their bikes on a shared road. The cement was poured in June 2025 and we spent months trying to get answers from the City and the STM, I have had busses in front of my house since the 1980s and guess what, they are hardly used for DECADES. And at one point prior to 2012, the STM busses were diverted away from the primary school in the area. Perhaps for safety reasons do you think? The STM has had to modify 2 intersections as the large bus cannot safely turn on residential streets in our area plus they haven’t figured out how to mitigate the bus stops on the dedicated Elm bike path so the bus will take you to the REM but you may have to walk on the way back. Please don’t say NIMBYs – it’s been about the size of the bus on a narrow residential street in a low density neighbourhood. And you do realize a woman was killed by the bus mirror in Pointe-Claire right ? Montrose Drive width varies from 8.5 M to 6.4 M. This is quite striking when you are driving a large bus in both directions and imagine in the winter with the snow. And yes please check out Mario Dumont on this subject because a bit part of my issue is the lack of transparency and the lack of real consultation.
Not to worry I will be sending my access to information requests on ridership and incidents every month so we shall see.
Montrose and Elm are two lanes wide, but so is Sherbrooke, so I’m not sure how one is more dangerous than the other, or how an STM bus is more dangerous than a school bus. Buses have been using streets like these for decades all over the city.
The bike path on Elm is definitely an issue. I can kind of understand why there’s no need for a sidewalk there otherwise, but I think it’s a solvable problem.
Yes, I would agree that you have done tremendous research which is appreciated.
Sherbrooke Street is linear. Elm Avenue is linear. The narrow part of Montrose Drive is NOT linear. Windermere Road is linear and more direct to the Kirkland REM. As I mentioned previously, the wider part of Montrose is 8.5 M wide and the narrow part of Montrose is 6.4 M WITHOUT SNOW.
School busses drive 2x a day mainly in 1 direction. The 211x will be 24 large busses per day. The mirrors on a school bus are higher than an STM bus. As the road is narrow, there is a possibility of overhang. This is dangerous to me. When busses have trouble turning and go over the yellow lines or drive on the sidewalk as there is not enough physical space, this is dangerous to me. Unfortunately, the STM does not have smaller busses to offer for narrow residential streets that were not designed for large busses. Elm is also narrow in certain parts so likely more parking spots will be eliminated to make way for the large bus. At least 10 parking spots have been eliminated on Elm for the 211 x so far. Tower Street is a flood zone and it’s still a car opting neighbourhood so that will be hard as they want to densify even more in this area. Plans for condos on the tennis court and the Elm Plaza in the works.
Neither the STM nor the City of Beaconsfield have yet mitigated the issue of the bus stop on the bike path at the Beaconsfield train station. The other bus stops along the Elm bike path are supposedly being implemented only in 2027 as the City of Montreal is involved as they imposed the bike path. So yes, the speed bumps are hard for the busses as are the narrow width of the roads in residential neighbourhoods where children play and ride their bikes on a shared road.
I think the bus resource could be better diverted to a higher density area. The STM is running a deficit. We asked for a pause on the 211 x to at least see if ridership on the 211 would increase with the REM but we were refused. I have the ridership for the north west sector of Beaconsfield for the 217 and 425 and it’s very low so not sure it’s worth the $7M annually Beaconsfield pays for public transportation. So we shall see and hopefully there will be no serious accidents.
There are 403 signatures on the petition against this 211 x mainly for safety reasons.
The STM forecasts 160 people daily for the 211 x for 24 busses.
This is about 7 people per bus on 60 person capacity bus. This is a very low utilization of an asset.
The Mayor thinks the 211 x bus will get 150 cars off the road.
We shall see as there was no in depth survey performed for bus use on the actual residents in the area.
It’s a mess. Some bus stops which was available for 68/468/213 on Gouin has been changed to 79. The connection between 79 and 68 bus is a complete mess. We have to take 2 bus just to travel from Gouin to des source.
A very big commentary on the death of malls… fairview mall hasn’t done anything to regain connectivity or build connection. Game over?
Need new bus booth on Brunswick’s outside the cf Fairview stops . Rain ,suns snow will be the major problems.too many no. At one stop.i cannot sit on the grass and find a roof above my head because I am a senior at 75.
This is a good point. Also you may want to look into the 270 taxibus, which still includes a stop at the Fairview mall during the day on weekdays. You have to reserve the trip 40 minutes in advance but it’s an option designed for seniors.
I live in Beaurepaire Village and I don’t like having to transfer buses and I don’t like the new Fairview REM Station, which actually poses a risk to birds with very reflective windows.