STM transit consultations in Montreal’s West Island underway
Global News
Officials at Montreal’s largest public transit agency are hoping to learn how they can better meet the needs of their clients in the West Island.
The STM is reaching out to municipalities across the West Island to get their input on how best to improve service.
Elected officials and residents from Senneville, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue and Baie-D’Urfé are among the first to be invited.
Officials at Montreal’s largest public transit agency are hoping to learn how they can better meet the needs of their clients but also to prepare for the arrival of the REM, Montreal’s future all-electric light rail service.
The train line to the West Island is expected to be running by the end of 2024.
‘’We have to rethink all our bus routes according to them being connected to the REM’,” STM president Éric Alan Caldwell told Global News on Thursday.
Caldwell says the consultation process is to reroute some buses so they act as feeders to the future REM stations.
The mayor of Senneville supports the initiative but she would also like an STM phone app reinstalled that allowed commuters to make reservations to take taxi-buses to larger STM bus terminals or the train station.
‘’I’m certainly going to push for that to come back to life,’’ Julie Brisebois, the Senneville mayor, told Global News.
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