Exo (public transit)
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Exo, stylized as exo and officially known as the Template:Lang (Template:IPA, RTM; Template:Langx), is a public transport system in Greater Montreal, including the Island of Montreal, Laval (Île Jésus), and communities along both the North Shore of the Mille-Îles River and the South Shore of the St. Lawrence River. It was created on June 1, 2017, taking over Montreal's commuter rail services from the former Template:Lang as well as bus and paratransit services from the various suburban municipal and intermunicipal transit agencies.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Exo operates the second busiest such system in Canada after Toronto's GO Transit.Template:Citation needed
Exo's territory is concurrent with Montreal Metropolitan Community limits, with the addition of the Kahnawake First Nations reserve and the city of Saint-Jérôme.<ref>Act respecting the Réseau de transport métropolitain (RLRQ, c. R-25.01, section 3)</ref> It serves a population of approximately 4 million people who make more than 174,000 trips daily in the Template:Convert area radiating from Montreal.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Rapport_annuel_2023"/>
History
A regional transit agency in Greater Montreal was first created by the Quebec government in 1995 with the Template:Langr, with the mandate of developing, coordinating and promoting transit throughout the area; improve and develop the commuter rail network, and; encourage integration of different modes of transit. On December 20, 1996, the AMT took over responsibility of the commuter trains from the Société de transport de la Communauté urbaine de Montréal (STCUM).<ref name="evolution_trains_banlieue">Template:Cite web</ref>
On June 1, 2017, the AMT was disbanded in a reorganization of metropolitan transit authorities. A new agency, the Template:Langr (RTM) was created to be responsible for operating commuter rail and suburban transit services.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
In May 2018, the RTM adopted the Exo brand (stylized exo, all-lowercase), to represent the sub- and exurban nature of its service area.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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Exo's parent agency, the Template:Langr (ARTM), is charged with transportation planning for the Greater Montreal area.
Exo operates commuter train service as well as the bus service outside of the three main population centres of Greater Montreal. In these areas service is provided by the Template:Langr on the Island of Montreal, the Template:Langr in Laval, and the Template:Langr for the urban agglomeration of Longueuil.
Commuter rail
Buses
Template:Main Exo runs multiple bus lines through its subsidiaries serving Montréal suburbs.
Exo operates all commuter bus services for the North Shore and South Shore suburbs, excepting the cities of Longueuil and Laval, which have their own transit agencies.
These bus services are operated mostly through 13 bus terminals, of which most belong to Exo :
- Terminus La Prairie
- Terminus Châteauguay
- Terminus Georges-Gagné
- Terminus Montcalm-Candiac
- Terminus Repentigny
- Terminus Terrebonne
- Terminus Sainte-Julie
- Terminus Saint-Eustache
- Stationnement incitatif Beloeil
- Terminus Chambly
- Terminus Contrecoeur
Fares
Exo services operate within the Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain (ARTM)'s integrated fare structure for Greater Montreal, which manages its fare schedule and fare zones.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2022 the ARTM began a multi-year program of updating and simplifying the fare schedule. Through this process, and as the Réseau express métropolitain replaced some train and bus services, certain legacy fares were retained and new transitional fares were created, with the objective of slowly raising prices over time to match the simplified fare structure and then ultimately be phased out — a process called Template:Lang (smoothing).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> As of July 2024, Exo commuter rail and certain bus sectors still have these unique fares.<ref name="fare-schedule-2024">Template:Cite web</ref>
Ridership
In 2018, Exo carried 174,710 passengers on a typical weekday — 77,210 on the trains and 97,500 by commuter bus, including adapted transport.
| Rail lines | ||
| Template:Ric Vaudreuil–Hudson line | 2,730,671 | |
| Template:Ric Saint-Jérôme line | 2,250,728 | |
| Template:Ric Mont-Saint-Hilaire line | 866,901 | |
| Template:Ric Candiac line | 804,488 | |
| Template:Ric Mascouche line | 399,177 | |
| Subtotal — Rail lines | 7,051,965 | |
| Bus routes and on-demand | ||
| Exo North Shore buses | 9,298,734 | |
| Exo South Shore buses | 7,314,438 | |
| Exo Paratransit | 736,451 | |
| On-demand transit | 90,725 | |
| Subtotal — Bus system | 17,440,348 | |
| Total — Exo System | 24,492,313 | |
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See also
References
External links
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