Even if you consider that a premium is necessary for commuter rail, your fare structure should be coherent across modes and locations. 3 fare zone for one mode and 1 fare zone for all the others is not integrated.

I know. That's exactly what I'm talking about. And if the rail service is trash anyway, and not competitive with the bus and metro, the last mile isn't the issue for those urban stations.

I can't be mad at them because the points they've made about line B aren't wrong. But the CAQ is itching to destroy them and this report will likely lead to that.

The last mile is not really an issue for trips to downtown Montreal, particularly in the city. Most urban stations should be attractive; I've mentioned why they're not, but you've read past it. On the issue of fares, pre-2021, RTM had 3 fare zones just in the city, and it came at a premium...

Right, those are similar numbers to the Mascouche line. Like I said most trips downtown are made by public transit. Did you interpret those numbers as meaning that most daily trips are trips to downtown? Do pay attention to how stations in dense parts of the city have proportionally low...

The Mascouche line not terminating downtown really isn't as big of a problem as some people think. There's this obsession with providing service to downtown, but downtown only makes a small portion of daily commutes, and most of it is already done by public transit. exo needs to move away from...

Platform screen doors are neat.

Couldn't get a definite answer from CDPQ. In one of their PR event/public consultation, they mentioned they were expecting off-peak frequency to be almost as high as peak frequency, but they've also unceremoniously reduced line A Anse-à-l’Orme branch original off-peak frequency a few years ago...

Line B still runs just 0.5-1km away from the green line along half its length. The city has more pressing transit needs, so even the level of redundancy here is questionable, but this transit deficit also means you take what you can when you can.

No so much of an issue with modern ATO honestly.

In Montreal, most trips between downtown and the north or east end are already mostly done by metro (+ another mode). There's actually more trips done between the north end and the east end, than downtown, and most of those trips are done by car because they're not really practicable by transit...