Outgoing STM CEO says public transit faces a lot of challenges
Global News
Luc Tremblay is stepping down from the top job at the STM but not before criticizing the ARTM, the umbrella group that operates and manages mass transit in greater Montreal.
Luc Tremblay’s last day as CEO of Montreal’s largest mass transit system, the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), is April 2nd.
In an interview with Global News, he says the time has come for him to allow someone else to take the helm.
Tremblay has been the CEO since 2014 and was the agency’s treasurer prior to that, beginning in 2007.
He joined the STM in 1994.
“I think it was time to pass up the torch,” he said.
But Tremblay’s decision comes at a time when he’s growing increasingly frustrated with the umbrella organization that oversees public transit in greater Montreal, the L’Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain (ARTM).
“We are choking,” he says.
Tremblay claims the ARTM is overreaching its mandate by operating Montreal’s bus and metro system rather than trying to find new ways to finance it.
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