I fucking hate this region.

Arrive at a public transportation stop. Leaves in your face, next departure in 4-6 hours.

Another stop, does the same thing, for a very high frequency line (439). Next departure… 30 minutes.

Oh… apparently it’s only high frequency if you’re in Montréal. The frequency drops the second you leave the city 🤬🤬🤬

Don’t fucking classify the line as high frequency on the stops where it isn’t.

I think a complaint should be filed with my city so that they replace that service. Still shocked no one ran on improving public transportation!

No wonder people complain when they raise their prices.

As much as I rant on the LRT, at least it really works on speed (not frequency).

I really wish it wasn’t that expensive to take it (also $205/month)

The real test will be tomorrow, when I head to work and back.

So far, today’s been a very frustrating experience.

@EdwinG Do the STL buses 52-252 stop at the same platforms as the 439 rapibus? 9or doe they stop on conventional sidewalks and you then have to cross to middle of roads to catch the rapibus?

@jfmezei The STL and exo lines stop at the BRT stops.

I don’t know if they allow boarding at those stops though. They don’t seem to allow so at regular stops.

@EdwinG Southbound STL buses shouldn't allow boarding on the island (and if they did would still charge a B fare). But northbound, would allow boarding for people going to Laval (and charge a B fare).

@jfmezei I don’t know.

I haven’t seen what’s written on the bus sign. We were driving away when I saw the routes mentioned.

For charging zones B (and C), they use the same system the STM does. And the latter are capable of mixed zone charging; the BRT 439 invoices you a zone B when in Laval and a zone A anywhere on the Island of Montréal.

It would be surprising that exo, RTL and STL don’t have those capabilities.

It’s probably political and not technical/technological.

@EdwinG @jfmezei not sure if it's relevant but there is also a special bus-only fare which covers zones A, B and C (not D!) as long as you only take buses.

@dhd6 @jfmezei Good point. I did know it exists. I simply ran out of characters to mention it 😆

Also, it doesn’t seem to exist in weekly or monthly versions? Chrono doesn’t offer it at all.

@EdwinG @dhd6 Chrono has a quirk: it does not have the ability to delete expired fare from your card.

Say you have :
-monthly pass
-10 tickets (expired)
-daily (expired)
-evening (expired)
Chrono wont offer you a weekend pass because it would be unable to load it on card because all 4 "registers" are loaded. But a vending machine will have no problem and will delete 1 of the unused registers to make way for new fare.

Monthly Bus ABC is offered:
(Monthly C and D also available at $119)

@jfmezei @EdwinG @dhd6 Good tip! So basically if you end up unable to load a fare using the app for this reason, you just need to do it once via a machine and you’ll be good for that date afterwards?

@heliomass @EdwinG @dhd6 Correct. The OPUS cards has storage for only 4 types of fares.

UPDATE: just checked, and it appears OPUS can now zap unused fares because I have card with 4 fare types, and it offers me all fares.

Months ago, or last year, Chrono didn't offer the fare I needed and was puzzled, and was able to load it at the train station machine without problem. Called STM and they confirmed Chrono couldn't delete fares when card already had 4.

@jfmezei @heliomass @EdwinG this is totally nuts! Luckily I'm a strictly 10 passages ABC kind of guy in love with a 10 passages ABC girl, living in a 10 passages ABC world (plastic, fantastic)