Last week, Montrealers heard that public transit use is still less than it was before the pandemic.
The ARTM, Montreal’s regional transit authority, put out the results of last fall’s mobility study. They found that Montrealers are taking fewer trips overall.
That decline is felt especially with public transit use, where ridership is still only 85% of what it was in 2018. But Lancelot Rodrigue, graduate research assistant at the Transportation Research at McGill (TRAM) lab, cautions against lowering service to match.
“We’re not going to get out of the hole that the pandemic created by removing service,” he tells CKUT. “We need to increase it, but we need to be smart.”
Rodrigue joins CKUT to discuss what the recent survey, and TRAM’s own data, has to say about changing transit use – and how the numbers are playing into an intergovernmental battle over public transit funding.
