This map looks excellent. A few minor things:
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By FAR my biggest concern is there is no sensible reason to me to split 201 and 68. there’s quite a few reasons for that which i may as well bring up here
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In this map, there’s not a single route to cote vertu metro from the west island (a lot of west island residents still need to get to buses at cote vertu, or have their destination around decarie), something not at all addressed by the REM. While this obviously doesnt address the problem for pointe claire, southern DDO, etc, at least for pierrefonds it seems needless to force the extra transfer to go to the metro.
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Furthermore, getting to eastern pierrefonds, cartierville or st laurent now needs 2-3 buses instead of just 1-2 (because of the split 201/68 and i can guarantee there is no chance in hell that transfer will ever be coordinated to eliminate waits, i’ve lived here long enough to know xD), which is a massive service downgrade when 30min waits are involved. This isn’t an uncommon need in my experience; 201/68 pretty much represent one neighbourhood so there are a lot of people use take advantage of the long 68 for in-neighbourhood trips (there are schools in eastern pierrefonds, whose kids tend to flood 68O coming back home, plus just people visiting friends/family, or wanting to transfer to buses to Laval, etc)
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With the above in mind i would NOT have 201 and 68 as separate routes and just run 201 frequently down gouin to cartierville to make up for the now-deceased 470 (and 409, 475, 225, trimmed 215, etc) cuz right now there are no routes to cote vertu metro from anywhere in the west island in this map (except maybe 216? but that barely counts since it’s rush-hour only and very difficult to get to in general).
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There’s virtually no chance Exo will agree to cover the 212. Their “playing field” so far for their bus netwrok seems to be strictly off-island, to the point where exo drivers for routes like the 7 that technically have multiple stops on-island aren’t actually supposed to be shuttling people within the island (for example an eastbound 7 shouldn’t be picking up people from JAC and shuttling them to the 7’s terminus at fairview). On top of that, the 212 being the only line where STM uses their minibuses on, it can be thought to not impact “available resources” for other routes in a sense
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On the off chance that a ped/bike link across a40 where fairview is is never built (anything’s possible here as we all know) i’d probably have 72 detour out to fairview in the interim just in case, for the sake of easy transfers. Once the link is built it can/should be rerouted back to not pass by fairview
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205 should take a minor reroute (in red) to improve coverage; it’s not shown in the map but having lived in the area ik there’s a ped/bike crossing near there (circled in green) that would connect the line to people living east of it
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Id probably keep the old 208 routing for that bit by sunnybrooke instead of going through alexander; idk maybe it’s just me but it feels more intuitive for it to stay on “that side” of the tracks
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I still feel like 214 should be going down spring garden given the sikh temples are actually on hyman, not sunnybrooke, but with 215 “gone” in a sense I guess this can go either way
Re: 206, one thing to keep in mind is that it is hardwired in most of us west island commuters (myself included) that all buses come every 30 mins except 470 and a few oddballs (211 family, 419 come to mind). This means most of us have a severely negative perception of transfers and thus prefer all buses converging at fairview so that you can go from anywhere to anywhere with at most 1 transfer at fairview. That said, the “new” 206 seems to solve that issue and the “new” 210 is basically just an east-west link like 68 so this should be “acceptable” in a way
Overall I think i like the final map (minus some edits and the split 201/68) as a very good “best effort” of a strong redesign. Kudos man, really nice work on it!