I mean it’s a fairly significant price hike, something in the order of 50% more (too lazy to calculate the actual number). Not something to shrug off especially with inflation as it is now. If you rarely need to go further than downtown it can easily be seen as a raw deal to be told to pay so much more as opposed to only buying tickets on the few days that you actually need to go further than downtown.
For a future where commuters are a decreasing part of the public transit equation, should we really be prioritizing the metro boulot dodo in the fare structure?
I’d argue that this isn’t really prioritizing it per se, just addressing the issue of an unreal hike for basically the entire region.
Why would Brossard and Longueuil residents get this deal grandfathered in, but Laval doesn’t count? What about someone who works near métro Henri Bourassa but lives near Montmorency? The distance is not greater than Panama → Bonaventure
Well the issue with fairness is with our zones system this is a never-ending debate. It can also be easily seen as unfair for them to pay for AB tickets when you can live as far as sainte-anne-de-bellevue or pointe-aux-trembles and only have to pay a zone A ticket, while most of Longueuil is much closer than either of those and have to then pay 50% more.
Simple fact of the matter is that it’s easier to keep high prices, but difficult to raise prices for trips people used to do for cheap. So when doing the fare reform, it’s easier to put laval in their own zone since if they were going downtown anyways, they never had buses straight to downtown and had to pay for TRAM3 anyways. Most of the city didn’t really get a price hike, except tho who drove/lived close to the Metro, and didn’t go often enough to justify a monthly TRAM3 they took a fat L though but it’s a tiny subset that should be easy to ignore and yet even just that slice of a slice of the population was enough to lower it by 75c.
For Longueuil, basically the whole region would get the price hike, not just a few people who live by the metro, and it’s not just those who take it once or twice, people who buy monthly are affected too, so it’s way harder to hike it for everyone. It’s really not at all the same situation as the Laval hike when you think about it