{"id":2036,"date":"2009-01-22T06:37:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T11:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2009\/01\/22\/public-transit-up-in-2008-stm\/"},"modified":"2009-01-26T10:26:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T15:26:44","slug":"public-transit-up-in-2008-stm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/01\/22\/public-transit-up-in-2008-stm\/","title":{"rendered":"Public transit up in 2008: STM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3511\/3215738035_8ac9109366.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of Jery &#8216;Riverman&#8217; on flickr<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to recent figures released by the STM, transit ridership in Montreal was up in 2008. And not insignificantly, either.<\/p>\n<p>In Montreal, there were 4% more passengers; in Laval, the number was even higher at 6.4%; and in Longueuil it was 4.35% higher. The two most obvious factors for this increase are the Laval metro stops and the quickly rising cost of gasoline, but\u00a0 increasing environmental concern has been cited as a factor as well.<\/p>\n<p>With another 2% projected increase in 2009, the STM is going to have an additional $10 million at its disposal, according to figures from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cremtl.qc.ca\">Conseil R\u00e9gional de Montr\u00e9al<\/a>. This is great news, but with the price of gas at five year lows, I wonder if the STM is going to be able to entice their new clientele to stay on the bus before they go back to their cars?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo courtesy of Jery &#8216;Riverman&#8217; on flickr According to recent figures released by the STM, transit ridership in Montreal was up in 2008. And not insignificantly, either. In Montreal, there were 4% more passengers; in Laval, the number was even higher at 6.4%; and in Longueuil it was 4.35% higher. The two most obvious factors<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/01\/22\/public-transit-up-in-2008-stm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Public transit up in 2008: STM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[92,125,302],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transit","tag-laval","tag-montreal","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Public transit up in 2008: STM - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/01\/22\/public-transit-up-in-2008-stm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Public transit up in 2008: STM - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Photo courtesy of Jery &#8216;Riverman&#8217; on flickr According to recent figures released by the STM, transit ridership in Montreal was up in 2008. 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