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Pascan Aviation (callsign P6), largest regional passenger airline in southern Québec, is drastically cutting its services. The company, whose hub is located at Montréal―Saint-Hubert (YHU), suffers from harsh financial difficulties. It is currently in reorganisation, trying to survive the Plan Nord reductions.. List of cutbacks : Suspension of all flights to/from Gatineau-Ottawa Executive (YND); Suspension of all its morning flights (thus all flights serving Baie-Comeau [YBC]), effective immediately; Pascan has been... putting for sale of 14 out of its 26 aircrafts; laying off 240 out of its 340 workers; looking into moving its Saguenay activities from Saguenay―Bagotville (YBG) to Saint-Honoré (YRC) : minimum approach and airport rent are too high for the service to be profitable; fighting with Québec―Jean-Lesage Int'l (YQB) adminsitration over overdue rent and unpaid AIF fees (YQB has the highest in Canada) (2013); ​Cutting its minor destinations over the last 5 years : Bathurst (ZBF), Happy-Valley―Goose-Bay (YYR), Havre-Saint-Pierre (YGV), Port-Menier (YPN), and Rivière-du-Loup (YRI). The reduction of Pascan presence in eastern Québec and the Maritimes makes Air Liaison (callsign Q9, hub at Sept-Îles [YZV]) and Air Labrador (callsign WJ, main hub at Happy-Valley―Goose-Bay, minor hub at Lourdes-de-Blanc-Sablon [YBX]) and Provincial Airlines (callsign PB, main hub at Saint John's Int'l [YYT], minor hub at Happy-Valley―Goose-Bay) the three major players for serving eastern Canada isolated communities.Starting April 24th 2015, Pascan will be serving these destinations : Saguenay―Lac-Saint-JeanSaguenay―Bagotville Gaspésie and Lower Saint-Lawrence Bonaventure (YVB) Mont-Joli/Rimouski (YYY) Magdalen IslandsÎles-de-la-Madeleine (YGR) Southwestern Québec Montréal―Saint-Hubert Québec―Jean-Lesage Int'l Abitibi Rouyn-Noranda (YUY) Val-d'Or (YVO) North Shore and Labrador Sept-Îles Wabush/Fermont (YWK)

Moreover, that whole "it will benefit the users" is oxdung. I don't see how removing the users from the local boards responsible for planning and organising transit will benefit them!

According to verbatims, yes. The Campeau fleet for Transcollines should be, contractually, a minimum : 2 LFS 2 Vicinity 3 Girardin G5 Wiki was duely modified.

Transcollines will launch its service June 15th 2015. http://www.sto.ca/index.php?id=nouveautes&L=en#c6992

It strikes me, because AMT has synthesized voice announcements on all other lines using multilevels.I was on train 921 (Deux-Montagnes bound) this morning (6:45), and witnessed the arrival of a nearly empty Mascouche 1200 train at Centrale. I am really surprised that ridership is so low. I don't know if it's the same for other departures, but movements for 921 were substantially modified to acommodate 1200. It now boards on track 10, then uses the tunnel's south track (formerly inbound track), then switches to north track at signal 357, near Portal Heights.

It has been used as the electoral officer's headquarters of Sainte-Marie―Saint-Jacques district for the 2014 provincial elections (March to May). Otherwise, I have not noted occupation since nor before. Voyageur used to have its Montréal offices at 505, boulevard de Maisonneuve Est, but Orléans has left the building long ago (certainly prior to 2004) for a prestige location on Notre-Dame Ouest, in the financial district. The old terminal platforms are just fenced off. The owner is Société Québécoise des Infrastructures, a state corporation responsible of managing public land assets. The building has been devaluated in order to enhance potential of sale.

I'm not sure I quite understand your question. Pretty sure you can just google it.

Yes, I know that. However, this one looks red and purple to me, which is why I bother.

http://www.gamtl.com

No, as I said, it is not called Centrale Station anymore.

Not sure what you are referring to, as there is ― to my knowledge ― nothing such as a Central Bus Terminal in Montréal. Are you referring to Terminus Centre-Ville (which roughly translate to Downtown Terminal)? It is the main on-island commuter bus terminal. It is located under a skyscraper in downtown Montréal. Maybe you mean the Gare d'autocars de Montréal (Montréal Coach Station)? It is the main terminal for interurban buses, located at the east end of downtown. Prior to 2011, the depot was located one block away, and was known as Station Centrale de Montréal (Montréal Central Station), confusing pretty much everyone; the train station (ironically located next to Terminus Centre-Ville) is called Gare centrale or Central Station.

What's with the flag on the second picture?

Missing central seat in the back row? If not, this bus is equipped with 6V92 engine with transversal displacement, as in the New Looks - hence the sound.

STQ service is suite problematic thèse times because of large ice blocs on the Saint Lawrence. Québec-Lévis service was interrupted all throughout peak hour because N.M. Lomer-Gouin couldn't dock. http://m.radio-canada.ca/regions/quebec/2015/02/19/011-traversier-lomer-gouin-pris-fleuve-glace-accoster-levis-quebec.shtml (French)

Hi, I started a topic in Québec transit concerning the new Collines-de-l'Outaouais system branded Transcollines, although it might not reach fellow geeks from Nation's capital. Cantley and Chelsea will now be served by 9 of the new agency's routes instead of Gatineau's Société de transport de l'Outaouais routes 14-15-16, whilst the periurban communities of Sainte-Cécile-de-Masham, Wakefield, Perkins, Saint-Pierre-de-Wakefield, Poltimore will now be served by bus transit. Hollow Glen, Chelsea and Poltimore will get supplemental taxibus service. Vehicles expected are Vicinities and cutaways, but that remains to be confirmed. So... I started a wiki page. If anyone in the 819/613 has anything to add, feel free! I also tried to update STO page, but that's no use; I haven't been there since 2012 ― Rapibus was still u/c! The STO page is quite old, and Rapibus is not even mentionned.

Service will be progressively put in place during summer 2015, with adjustments. While STO has regular service to Ottawa, TransCollines does not reach Ontario. Thread subtitle states "Discussion of transit in the Province of Ontario". It is still possible to link it down from there with a post-it.

Train de l'ouest will likely be a LRT linking Fairview Terminus to downtown. The actual advocacy call for a Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu link (http://www.eco-train.org/). MTQ has acquired for the account of the AMT CN Chambly spur in 2013; AMT operates 6 rail lines and no bike paths, if you know what I mean. Plans from the agency also called for some time for a Boisbriand service spuring from Saint-Jérôme line. VIA offers commuter e-passes from Ottawa (ON), Alexandia (ON), Coteau (QC), Saint-Hyacinthe (QC), Drummondville (QC), Casselman (ON), and Cornwall (ON), although the two latters are unlikely commutes because the first train to enter Montréal from Toronto is around noon. All of the other hereby listed are plausible commutes (arrival 7-9 AM, departure 4-6 PM; standards generally accepted by scholars). An inbound morning passenger train operated by CN is still listed in 1975 CP timetables for Québec sub. Service assuredly ended in 1975, when the CP shut down Gare du Palais station. Côte-de-Beaupré regional county municipality (actually served by fast-growing PLUMobile intermunicipal bus service; wiki) has prayed several times for return of the interurban tram service, but studies weight against any rail service ― too expansive for any projected ridership. Le Massif's regional rail transit serving Charlevoix is looking forward to expand to Québec, and Côte-de-Beaupré wants its share of the deal. (Réseau Charlevoix; wiki). I'd be awfully excited if the german-built cutie-pie DMUs were to serve the capital. However, I hardly see how is that possible, as the speed limits west of Montmorency falls are pretty weak and ssss llllllll ooooo wwww, and Gare du Palais station has high platforms only ― although passenger movements just out of the station would not be impossible. Also, Boulevard François-de-Laval has good transit connections, and that would make it a good candidate for an eventual terminus west of the Falls. VIA offers a commuter e-pass for 525$ monthly, still 50% cheaper than using your car (Camry kilometrage per litre used for comparison). CP trains 40/42 (The Atlantic) and CN 621/624 made Sherbrooke-Montréal day-in/day-out plausible until the 90's, although nobody back then (not even nowadays) would live on a 5-hour daily commute. -------------- VIA also offers commuter e-passes for these zones (bolded are plausible commutes according to schedule) : LondonGuelph Ottawa Alexandria Brockville Kingston Toronto Aldershot Belleville Brantford Cobourg Georgetown Grimbsy Guelph, Kitchener, Oshawa (but, seriously, who would?) Kingston Port Hope St. Catharines Stratford Trenton Junction Woodstock

Southern MRC Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais municipalities (La Pêche, Cantley and Val-des-Monts) will organize their own transit system starting 2015, branded Transcollines, in lieue of subcontracting to the STO. The service plan actually includes numerous routes, including service from park-'n-ride hubs to Rapibus stations, counter- and off-peak departures, cross-regional routes and taxibuses. Service is organized by route number groups : 900-919 : unallocated 920-929 : Chelsea / La Pêche ― Gatineau routes 930-939 : Cantley ― Gatineau routes 940-949 : Val-des-Monts ― Gatineau routes 950-959 : unallocated 960-969 : Regional routes 990-999 : Taxibus routes Unallocated decades are presumably reserved for eventual expansion to the 3 other MRC Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais constituants ― Pontiac, L'Ange-Gardien and Notre-Dame-de-la-Sallette ― although the latter, home to 772 people, is unlikely to have service in a long-term horizon. Transcollines plans on buying 4 Vicinity midibuses and 2 cutaway minibuses, and double the number of departures vs. actual STO service. Read more : http://transcollinesbeta.com/ (in English and French)

Bombardier and SNC-Lavallin would have falsified ridership projections in order to force AMT to buy the most expensive technology available for the new Champlain bridge LRT SkyTrain elevated metro. A practice no stranger to Yongin's EverLine, a PPP project in South Korea led by Bombardier, where a railbus is drenching every single cent from that Seoul's suburb while ridership is 95% lower than expected. Fraud, fiscal evasion and corruption is on the menu. An incredible story by Marie-Maude Denis and Chantal Cauchy, from Enquête (Radio-Canada's Fifth Estate), featuring HEC prof. Jacques Roy, François Pépin (ex-STM p. eng.), Richard Bergeron (urban planner, member of the City of Montréal Executive Council) and Serge Bisson (V.-P. Systems for Bombardier North Asia). http://ici.tou.tv/enquete/S2014E14 (in french, subs available)

NJ Transit River Line is the sole example of tram-train I can think of.

Back to normal on monday. Strike is over, an agreement was signed.

Le Richelain has chosen Gestrans/Transdev combo to operate its renovated network last year.

This is utterly awesome. Thanks for sharing.

They can, but as the trains run on rubber wheels, that would require extensive winter de-icing and snow removal operations that would ruin the efficiency (frequency and speed) and necessitate softer slopes, whilst : All of track and maintenance operations are actually done at night, while the passenger service is shut; Métro de Montréal uses U-profiled interstation to minimize braking and motorized acceleration

So long for the 709 shuttle. The STM is putting the service to an end on January 30th. http://www.stm.info/fr/offres-et-sorties/sorties/canadiens-de-montreal