The ARTM does studies if they are told to do so. If the CAQ asks for a study to reduce costs, they would do it, but there is no incentive to do it if it goes no where. There are projects and studies done for many years, and are just thrown away because CAQ cuts all funding to that project.
Let’s say the ARTM were to work on a project to reduce costs like you are saying, without CAQ approving this work. They work for months, maybe about a year, and then propose the changes. What if the CAQ just came in and said “we can do this” and delete the entire project? This has been done before so nothing prevents it from happening again.
This is what I say, they could take the lead, not in projects because they cannot with the current laws, but they could provide practical solutions when it come to legislation to reduce costs and speed up projects.
That’s not the ARTM’s mandate. They can’t just “do it” because they aren’t allowed to do it unless they are told to.
Let’s say you’re working at a paper factory. You manage the machinery, and believe there is a way to improve it. You go to your boss, and they don’t listen to you and tell you to go back to making paper. It’s not your job to reduce the costs, your job is making the system function.
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Sadly accurate and maybe ARTM’s mandate should not only include transit organization but also planification (with real money).
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Ça, ça implique un gouvernement qui accepte de se départir de son pouvoir décisionnel en la matière et dépolitise la chose 
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A few of our central roads are large enough for a true SBS. Oh how I wish we’d have the balls to just go ahead and paint reserved bus-only lanes on Réné-Lévesque and Côte-des-Neiges and a couple other boulevards, and install cameras on the buses, and ticket any car that infringes the SBS lanes… no need for billion dollar infrastructure, just some red paint and some cameras, and balls.
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NYC is quite good at expanding bus lanes and is mostly stopped by lawsuits which wouldn’t happen here (or at least to the scale). I’m hopeful if Luc Rabouin is pushing for bus lanes already and he is elected, he could help normalize it here as well
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, is it STM/ARTM only decision or this should pass by the gouvernement because of legal bureaucracie?
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You guys are funny, I really thought there was some news.
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The greatest feature of an echo chamber is the echoes.
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