Talk:Société de transport de Montréal

Montreal street rail

"Montreal abandoned the last of its streetcars in favour of buses". Wasn't Montreal largely in favour of underground metro and trolleybuses rather than boring old diesel buses?Myrtone (the strict Australian wikipedian)(talk)

True, but look at recent developments, as the Mayor wants to get back into Streetcars Bacl-presby 22:43, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't around Montreal in those days, BUT perhaps a biography of then-Mayor Jean Drapeau might tell you more...BTW, I don't think Montreal had Trolley coaches for long, unlike Toronto and Hamilton (the last two Ontario Communities that had them).. Bacl-presby 02:35, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Montreal used tramlines and street cars for decades. You can see the remains of the rails under Ste-Catherines street when they do roadwork, amongst other downtown streets. There's a streetcar terminus at Parc and Mont-Royal Ave. The building is intact, but its used as a bus roundabout now. The weird MacDonald/Eduoard-Laurin triple street in Ville Saint-Laurent are the remains of a northern terminus of streetcars. (there are two 2-way residential streets sandwiching a boulevard that's very short and almost totally unused by traffic, only one block south of a major East-West thoroughfare -- the boulevard used to be where tramines and streetcars were left)

Canada Car and Foundry buses

I lived in the Montreal area from 1965 to 1970; throughout this time, "Can Car" buses were prominent in public transport systems. It was amazing (given how quickly cars rusted out) to see the old Brills in service year after year. Some were still running in 1980. The newer Can Car buses, the TD-51s (seen in the 1964 movie The Luck of Ginger Coffey), did not seem to be so durable. They were harder to find by 1970 and I didn't see any during a 1980 visit. Tony 09:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

External links

• Marc Dufour's site (French-only) contains maps of various unbuilt subway projects This is one link that won't open. Peter Horn 19:10, 25 September 2006 (UTC) W

Well, what do you know, it opens now. Peter Horn 19:12, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

• This link is problematic again. Peter Horn 22:29, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

these seem to be down Jethero 02:20, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

• Marc Dufour's site (French-only) contains maps of various unbuilt subway projects
• Transit History - Montreal

The first one opens again. The second does not, but try to surf thru Exporail —Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter Horn (talk • contribs) 02:08, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Historial Fares

once this section is sourced and more complete, a summary of it might be interesting on the main page. At least we can document it going forward. Jethero 01:50, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

FARES History (effective as of January 1)

	2007		2006		2005		2004		2003
	Regular	Reduced	Regular	Reduced	Regular	Reduced	Regular	Reduced	Regular	Reduced
CAM (Monthly Pass)	$65.00	$35.00	$63.00	$ .	$61.00	$ .	$ .	$ .	$ .	$ .
CAM hebdo (Weekly Pass)	$19.00	$10.75	$ .	$ .	$ .	$ .	$ .	$ .	$ .	$ .
Six-ticket strip	$11.75	$ 6.25	$ .	$ .	$ .	$ .	$ .	$ .	$ .	$ .
Cash fare	$ 2.75	$ 1.75	$ .	$ .	$ .	$ .	$ .	$ .	$ .	$ .
Tourist Card, 1 day	$ 9.00		$ .		$ .		$ .		$ .
Tourist Card, 3 day	$17.00		$ .		$ .		$ .		$ .

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BetacommandBot 11:31, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Someone please fix this immage?

File:Cam-may-2005.jpg

A monthly transit pass, giving access to STM services on the island of Montreal. This monthly pass is from May 2005.

Peter Horn 01:55, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Update and populate Infobox

I started to populate the info box but we are missing important information such as the system length (to be compared with other public transit systems). Could anyone help look this up? Knightdaemon (talk) 20:27, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Gahh. No streetcars. What a mess!

It's an encyclopedia article not a catalog of every streetcar and bus that ever ran on the property! I've rearranged the sections to, you know, make sense to people. I think the trolley and bus minutiae should go in a separate article. Really. I mean, *I* know what a SE DT car is, but well over 99.9998% of the people in the world don't ... and don't care ... even if some of them are interested in the STM. --plaws (talk) 21:08, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

I see it's been made worse of late. I'll see if I can find the time to split the fleet (Diesel, electric, or horse) into its own article. Yeesh. --plaws (talk) 19:06, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

How about reviving a separate article on the Montreal Tramways Company?