Quebec put forward other measures on Monday to improve public transit due to the work that forced the partial closure of the Louis-Hyppolite-La Fontaine tunnel until November 2025.
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Thus, the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) has put into service the 811-shuttle line for health network personnel with departures every 20 minutes during peak hours from the Radisson terminus.
It serves, among others, the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, the Montreal Heart Institute, the Marie Enfant Rehabilitation Center of the CHU Sainte-Justine, the Santa Cabrini Hospital, as well as the Polish CHSLD Marie-Curie-Sklodowska and the CHSLDs Marie Rollet and Dante.
This link is intended to complement line 462 of the Réseau de transport de Longueuil (RTL), which offers a fast link to healthcare personnel with three departures at rush hour from the Touraine and Mortagne park-and-ride lots.
Another departure is added on line 461 departing from the South Shore with a shuttle that can be taken from 4:40 a.m. at the Touraine incentive parking lot; the shuttle is scheduled for 4:47 a.m. at the Mortagne shuttle in the direction of the Radisson terminus.
Departures will be added on the exo-520 line from January 9 to serve the incentive parking lots of Beloeil, Sainte-Julie and Radisson every 20 minutes, instead of 30 currently.
“It is impressive to see how much traffic in the axis of the tunnel has decreased in recent weeks,” said Geneviève Guilbault, Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility.