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Originally Posted by Aylmer
Yikes! 70c/km? That means that someone in Deux-Montagnes will be paying more than twice what they are now, from $9 to almost $25!
I get that it's better service, but I certainly wouldn't be able to afford a $50 return ticket for an evening in town... And I can only imagine what the monthly rate must be. Currently, AMT's adult train-only passes are about 20x the price of a single ticket. If the same ratio were to apply, that means that the REM would be over $500 per month.
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70c/km is what CDPQ Infra will charge the ARTM, not what the ARTM will charge the users.
The ARTM will be the authority in charge for setting the all the fares for all transit modes in and around Montreal. (buses, Metro, commuter trains, REM). It is not yet known if the new integrated fare grid will be zone-based or distance-based. All we know is that the new fares will be comparable to what users are paying now.
If the forecasted ridership for the REM materializes, it is expected that the transit subsidy budget throughout the Greater Montreal area will only increase by 2-4%, so it is unlikely that fares will increase by more than that percentage.
From the urban user's perspective, it's very likely that in the city using the REM will be included in the STM fare, which will probably have risen to $90 in 2021
From the suburban user's perspective, it's very likely that it will be just like the current AMT TRAM fare zones. So the monthly cost for Longueuil and Laval users might be $150-155 instead of $145 now, and the zone 5 fares for outer suburbs like Deux-Montagnes and Vaudreuil might be $175-180 instead of $167 now.