With that week of seemingly-constant metro shutdowns last month still fresh, the opposition at City Hall wants to mandate the STM to come up with a plan for service interruptions to the metro—and Projet Montreal has a few ideas.
The STM has nothing to propose travelers during a shutdown to get arriving at their destinations in good time. The vast majority of users have to be patient until service resumes. That's not worth of a 21st-century metropolis," the party's transport crtic, Craig Sauve, said in a statement.
Projet Montreal believes a few simple solutions can help during service interruptions, according to a news release, which include installing more rail-line switches along the metro lines, and to increase its bus fleet by 200 so there are enough extras to provide shuttle buses when the metro is down.
Sauve will be present a motion to municipal council when it meets for the last regular meeting of the year on Dec. 19, demanding the SPVM outline to countil a detailed report on the slowdowns and service interruptions to the metro, and to put in place a short-term plan for when the metro needs to be shut down.