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Société de transport de Montréal

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The Société de transport de Montréal or Montreal Transit Corporation is the agency that operates buses and the Métro in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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[edit] History

Image:Cam-may-2005.jpg STM was created in 2002 and replaced the STCUM, Société de transport de la communauté urbaine de Montréal (Montreal Urban Community Transit Corporation/MUCTC), which provided public transit service to the 28 municipalities on the Island of Montreal. In practice, the STM is the same entity as the STCUM. All that changed was the name. The name change occurred to reflect the fact that the 28 municipalities on the Island of Montreal were merged into one 'mega-city' called Montreal. Several of these municipalities have since left the mega-city and are now independent towns. They will continue to contract with the STM to provide transit service. To fund the contracted service, the de-merged municipalities will continue to pay taxes to what remains of the mega-city of Montreal. In 2005, 361 million people used the STM for transport on the Island of Montreal.

Timeline of transit service in the Montreal area:

  • Montreal City Passenger Railway Company 1861–1886 (MSR)
  • Montreal Island Beltline Railway 1893–1899 (MTR)
  • Montreal Terminal Railway 1899–1911
  • Montreal Public Service Corporation 1910–1911 (STP)
  • Montreal Park and Island Railway 1894–1901
  • Montreal Suburban Tramway and Power 1904–1910
  • Commission de tramway Montreal 1918
  • Montreal Street Railway Company 1886–1911 (MTR and MPIR)
  • Montreal Tramways Company (MTC) 1911–1950
  • La Commission de transport de Montreal/CTM (Montreal Transit Commission/MTC) 1950–1970
  • Commission de transport de la communauté urbaine de Montréal/CTCUM (Montreal Urban Community Transportation Commission/MUCTC) 1970–1985
  • Société de transport de la communauté urbaine de Montréal/STCUM (Montreal Urban Community Transit Corporation/MUCTC) 1985–2002

[edit] Vehicles

Image:Bus from the STM, Montreal 2005-10-21.JPG

Image:STM17-094.JPG STM operates over 1,600 buses in its fleet; below is the all-time fleet list:

Currently the only buses in service are the Motor Coach Industries/NovaBus TC40102N and the Nova LFS.

[edit] Bus route numbers

  • Regular and rush hour services: Routes 10 to 268
  • Express and reserved bus lanes: Routes 410 to 545 and 935
  • Night routes: Routes 350 to 382


The STM bus network consists of 168 daytime and 20 nighttime service routes.

Routes served by NovaBus LFS are accessible (identified with 15px)

[edit] Streetcars

Like many North American cities in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Montreal had streetcar service. In the mid-20th century, Montreal abandoned the last of its streetcars in favour of buses and, later, an underground rubber-tyred metro, which, by 1959, had become much more popular, because politicians disliked overhead wires that they associated with the trams.

  • Horsecar service 1861–1894
  • Electric streetcar service 1894–1959

Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver were a few Canadian cities that used trolleybuses. Introduced in 1937, service ended in 1966. Here are just some of the vehicles that served in Montreal:

[edit] Horsecars

[edit] Electric cars

In February 2006, Montreal mayor Gérald Tremblay suggested the city look into a return of the streetcar into the heart of the city, following a visit to Paris, where new service is also in the planning stages.

[edit] Connections

STM is connected to surrounding transit agencies such as:

[edit] Metro

Image:Montreal-Metro-Rush Hour-01.png
Main article: Montreal Metro

The Montreal Métro was introduced in 1966 in preparation for Canada's 100th birthday and Expo 67 in Montreal, the second such system in Canada. Instead of traditional steel-wheeled trains, it is a rubber-tyred metro, based on technology developed for the Paris Métro; Montreal's system was the first in the world to be entirely rubber-tyred.

Montreal Metro lines are as follows:

Note on Line 3: The original metro plan called for a North-South route under Mount-Royal using existing Canadian National tracks. This line would have had from nine to 17 stations. The project was shelved for two reasons:

  • Expo '67 required the more important construction of Line 4,
  • The line would have required special cars, because they were to have run outside.

Today, AMT commuter trains to Deux-Montagnes use the Mount Royal Tunnel where line 3 was once planned.

[edit] Bus Rapid Transit

Main article: Montreal bus rapid transit

From June 1990 to June 2002, the MUCTC operated a Bus Rapid Transit line along Pie-IX Boulevard. This was indefinitely suspended after two fatalities. The buses on this line flowed against the flow of traffic during rush hours in the direction of the majority of traffic.

[edit] Paratransit

The STM operates paratransit services for handicapped passengers. Regular STM fares apply.

[edit] Taxibus

The STM also operates seven taxibus lines where the creation of bus service was not feasible. Regular STM fares apply, except that no cash is accepted. [2]

Taxibus lines:

1- Rush-hour service

2- Synchronised with rush-hour trains

3- Mid to late morning and late night service

4- Limited late night service Sunday through Thursday

All lines except for the Centre de distribution Aldo and the Parc industriel Lachine / Gare Dorval (during the night) require a reservation at least one hour in advance by telephone. Otherwise, one can simply wait at a stop. Its a very unique service.

[edit] Regional Service

The STM was formerly involved in the operation of regional transit services. The first such service was a set of bus routes inherited from the October 1980 expropriation of a private bus company called Metropolitan Provincial (1967) Inc. These regional bus routes operated from downtown Montreal to the western part of the Island of Montreal, as well as to off-island points located west, south-west, and north east of the Island of Montreal. By the end of 1985, the STM (then known by the initals CTCUM) had exited the regional bus business to focus on its core territory (the Island of Montreal). Most of the regional bus routes were passed to private operators who provided services under contract to newly formed intermunicipal transit councils.

The second regional service involved the management of two commuter train lines. On July 1, 1982, the CTCUM and Canadian National Railway (CN) entered into an agreement to integrate the Montreal-Deux Montagnes commuter train line into the regular CTCUM bus and metro network. The CTCUM paid CN to staff, run, and maintain the trains, while it set the fares and schedules. Passengers travelling within the CTCUM operating territory were able to transfer between the trains and the bus or metro, although a small fare supplement was required to make a bus/metro to train transfer. On October 1, 1982, a similar agreement with Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) went into effect and CP's Montreal-Rigaud commuter train line was integrated into the CTCUM network.

On January 1, 1996, responsibility for the commuter trains was transferred to the AMT, a Quebec provincial government agency formed to coordinate all public transportation in the metropolitan Montreal region.

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