You can thank the bitch-fight between Laval and Longueuil's mayors for that.
FWIW, it's never going to go back to what it was last year in Longueuil. Now, as soon as you step off the island, STM fares aren't accepted anywhere and neither STL or RTL fares are accepted in the metro.
For longueuil/uni de sherbrooke, you either need a tram 1 (a.k.a. CAM Longueil) at 82$ which will give you access to only the metro, but no buses in Longueuil. If you want the buses as well, then you need the TRAM 3, as you did before.
For Laval, You need the TRAM 3 even if you only want to use the metro stations in laval.
That's the part that kills me - not that you have to pay for the STL or RTL bus, but that NEITHER a transfer from those bus systems NOR your valid STM pass gets you into the metro, so you're double-dipped. That can't be right.
Ideally the whole urban area should be one transit system, but given the situation, nobody should have to pay a fare twice within 20 minutes to get from Saint-Lambert back to Montreal. I don't know why people aren't making more of a fuss about this. I guess most folks who commute regularly buy the TRAM3 pass and don't think about it (you can't blame them, but it's a stupid situation).
Lol it's actually because the mayors were standing up for their people for once that we're stuck in this hole.
laval and longueuil are supposed to pay royalties to the STM for the servicing and upkeeping of the off-island stations. laval started withholding their payments because its people had to pay zone 3 fares, while longueuil ppl could waltz in the metro on a regular stm CAM.
Then longueuil started witholding their royalties because laval wasn't paying theirs, so then the stm was paying for the services to 4 off-island stations and not getting a dime for it, so their response to that was a big middle finger to laval and longueuil and here we are it's montreal peeps that get screwed over the most by this.
I feel your pain... been working in St. Lambert for close to a decade... a few years back I finally wised up and started biking to work, 'cause the transit debacle is a serious pain.
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FWIW, it's never going to go back to what it was last year in Longueuil. Now, as soon as you step off the island, STM fares aren't accepted anywhere and neither STL or RTL fares are accepted in the metro.
For longueuil/uni de sherbrooke, you either need a tram 1 (a.k.a. CAM Longueil) at 82$ which will give you access to only the metro, but no buses in Longueuil. If you want the buses as well, then you need the TRAM 3, as you did before.
For Laval, You need the TRAM 3 even if you only want to use the metro stations in laval.
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STL transfers aren't accepted either in any of the laval stations.
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Ideally the whole urban area should be one transit system, but given the situation, nobody should have to pay a fare twice within 20 minutes to get from Saint-Lambert back to Montreal. I don't know why people aren't making more of a fuss about this. I guess most folks who commute regularly buy the TRAM3 pass and don't think about it (you can't blame them, but it's a stupid situation).
Thanks for the clarifications!
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laval and longueuil are supposed to pay royalties to the STM for the servicing and upkeeping of the off-island stations. laval started withholding their payments because its people had to pay zone 3 fares, while longueuil ppl could waltz in the metro on a regular stm CAM.
Then longueuil started witholding their royalties because laval wasn't paying theirs, so then the stm was paying for the services to 4 off-island stations and not getting a dime for it, so their response to that was a big middle finger to laval and longueuil and here we are it's montreal peeps that get screwed over the most by this.
*sigh*
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