MONTREAL — Brace yourselves, Montreal commuters, it’s going to cost a few more dollars a month to take the metro — but city officials claim services will be improved.
The city’s transit agency (STM) has confirmed that there will be fare increases for 2015.
After a document was shared with city employees in advance of an official briefing on Thursday, the agency released both the 2015 fares and its 2015 budget on its website on Wednesday afternoon.
“The budget is 1.4 per cent higher than last year, which actually means a belt-tightening budget,” city councillor and STM vice-chairman Marvin Rotrand told Global News.
“The only reason the budget makes any sense is because Mayor Denis Coderre has pumped in $25 million more.”
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Rotrand said that these additional funds raised by fare increases would be used to improve metro and bus services.
At a glance: Improved transit services
- 400,000 extra kilometres of metro services
- additional rush hour services on the Blue line starting in January
- extra am and pm services on the Green line starting in March
- extra services on the Orange line in the summer
- reserve train created for the Orange and Green lines
- additional services created for the 180 and 105 bus routes
At a glance: Public transit fare changes
- Single fares will go up from $3.00 to $3.25
- Monthly passes will go up from $79.50 to $82
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