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In its new sustainable mobility plan released on Tuesday, Quebec announced plans to increase public transit service by 30 per cent by 2020. TRANSIT, Alliance pour le financement des transports collectifs au Québec, a coalition of fifty some organizations, including Equiterre, applauded this effort.
TRANSIT also applauded the proposal to transfer $1 billion from the roadwork budget to public transit maintenance, as well as plans to integrate land-use planning with transportation planning, both of which are changes that TRANSIT has long requested.
But TRANSIT questioned whether the government has allotted itself sufficient funds to meet its own objectives. Among other things, the plan does not offer solutions to generate new revenue for public transit or to improve certain services such as the commuter train, even though 85% or public transit is carried out on the territory of the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM).
This plan is a step in the right direction, but there is still work to be done to accomplish a true shift towards sustainable mobility.
