{"id":311,"date":"2007-11-29T18:22:37","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T22:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=311"},"modified":"2007-11-29T18:34:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T22:34:25","slug":"transit-fares-increase-but-so-does-level-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/29\/transit-fares-increase-but-so-does-level-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit fares increase, but so does level of service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/caribb\/180273920\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/67\/180273920_a5e5ee392a.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First, the bad news: fares on the STM <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/2007\/11\/29\/166509.html\">will go up yet again next year<\/a>, with the cost of a monthly pass rising from $65 to $66.25 and the cost of a strip of tickets going up from $11.75 to $12.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s also good news. Lots of it, in fact. Montreal&#8217;s 2008 budget, tabled yesterday, contains more money for public transit than we have seen in years. All told, the city will invest $100 million more in the STM next year than it did in 2007, including $29 million to pay off its deficit, an extra $32 million for operating expenses and $50 million for capital investment. <\/p>\n<p>The most immediate impact of this increase in funding will be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpresse.ca\/article\/20071129\/CPACTUALITES\/711290921\/5155\/CPACTUALITES\">higher level of service<\/a>. The STM plans to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stm.info\/English\/info\/comm-07\/a-co071129b.htm\">increase overall service<\/a> by 4% every year for the next four years, leading to a 16% percent increase in service hours between now and 2012. That is almost double the increase in service since 1998. Service in the metro will increase by 26% next year alone.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, what this means is that, starting on January 7th, your metro trains and buses will soon be coming more often. Off-peak frequencies will be increased on the green, blue and orange metro lines as well as on 30 of Montreal&#8217;s bus routes, including the busy but underserved 24 Sherbrooke, 18 Beaubien and 121 Sauv\u00e9 lines. The headway between metro trains will be improved by at least two minutes outside of rush hour, meaning that the 8 minutes you now have to wait for an evening train on the green line will be reduced to 6 minutes next year.<\/p>\n<p>In Laval, meanwhile, there&#8217;s even more good news. After the service improvements that accompanied the opening of the metro extension last spring, <a href=\"http:\/\/argent.canoe.com\/lca\/infos\/quebec\/archives\/2007\/11\/20071129-132835.html\">Laval will now be <i>cutting<\/i> its transit fares<\/a>. The cash fare will decrease from $3 to $2.50 and the cost of a strip of eight tickets will pass from $21 to $18.<\/p>\n<p><i>Photo by caribb<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, the bad news: fares on the STM will go up yet again next year, with the cost of a monthly pass rising from $65 to $66.25 and the cost of a strip of tickets going up from $11.75 to $12. But there&#8217;s also good news. Lots of it, in fact. Montreal&#8217;s 2008 budget, tabled<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/29\/transit-fares-increase-but-so-does-level-of-service\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Transit fares increase, but so does level of service&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"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-311","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>Transit fares increase, but so does level of service - 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\/2007\/11\/29\/transit-fares-increase-but-so-does-level-of-service\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Transit fares increase, but so does level of service - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"First, the bad news: fares on the STM will go up yet again next year, with the cost of a monthly pass rising from $65 to $66.25 and the cost of a strip of tickets going up from $11.75 to $12. 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