Agence métropolitaine de transport

The Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT ) is a public authority under the Ministry of Transport of the Canadian province of Quebec. Since 1 January 1996, she is responsible for planning, integration and coordination of public transport in the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal, the metropolitan area of ​​the city of Montreal. In addition, it operates an extensive rail suburban services.

Responsibilities

The catchment area of ​​the AMT extends over the territory of 83 municipalities and one Indian reservation, as well as twelve regional county municipalities. The AMT is working with 14 local and regional transport companies and coordinates their offerings in a traffic group with a uniform tariff system. Building is an urban agglomeration with around 3.6 million inhabitants, to which in addition to Montreal and Laval and Longueuil big cities belong.

The AMT operates several modes of transport in their own competence. These include a rail suburban services with five lines along 204.4 kilometers in length, two express bus routes, 16 bus stations, 23 park and ride facilities with more than 13,300 parking spaces and 85.2 km HOV lanes for carpools in private vehicles. The annual budget is about 280 million Canadian dollars.

Transport Association

The inferred by the AMT field is divided into eight concentric tariff zones, further from downtown Montreal remote areas have a higher number. There are two different types of fares. TRAIN- Tickets are limited to the use of suburban trains. They are available as a monthly subscription for zones 4-7 or as a single ticket for zones 1-7. TRAM tickets (train autobus métro ) allow the unrestricted use of all transportation in zones 1-8, but are only available as a monthly subscription. For single tickets, day and week tickets in the core area (zones 1 to 3), the individual transport companies are responsible. Available since 2004, the Carte OPUS, a rechargeable smart card can be purchased throughout the province of Quebec with the performance of different transport companies.

In addition to the offerings of the AMT, the following companies are part of the transport system:

• Réseau de transport de Longueuil (RTL)
• Société de transport de Laval (STL )
• Société de transport de Montréal ( STM)
• CIT Chambly -Richelieu - Carignan
• CIT de la Presqu'Île
• CIT de la Vallée du Richelieu
• CIT de Sorel -Varennes

• CIT du Haut -Saint -Laurent
• CIT Laurentides
• CIT Le Richelain
• CIT Roussillon
• CRT de Lanaudière
• Bus Sainte -Julie

Suburban railways

The most important mode of transport which is operated by the AMT, the railway suburban service. The AMT trains run on tracks which owned by the Canadian National Railway ( CN), Canadian Pacific Railway ( CP) and the Chemins de fer Québec - Gatineau ( CFQG ) are. There are five lines with a total length of 204.4 kilometers and 51 stations. Approximately 66,300 passengers per day travel each year nearly 15.5 million (2010). On a line electric railcars are used on the other four lines with diesel locomotives hauled push-pull trains. The bus stations in downtown Montreal Gare Centrale and are of the Gare Lucien- L'Allier.

The CN and CP had for decades a vast suburban services in the Greater Montreal carried out, but they operated in the 1980s, only one each line. In 1982, the municipal public transport company Société de transport de la communauté urbaine de Montréal operation of the CN line to Deux- Montagnes and the CP line after Rigaud. In 1996, the suburban traffic was transferred to the newly established, the provincial government assumed AMT. The AMT opened three new lines: 1997 Saint- Jérôme, 2000 to Mont -Saint -Hilaire and 2001, in Candiac.

Overview of the lines:

Line to Deux -Montagnes

The Deux- Montagnes line runs from the Gare Centrale by the Mont -Royal tunnel and continue west to Deux- Montagnes. It is 29.9 km long and served twelve stations. The trains run on weekdays in the rush hour every 10 to 30 minutes, otherwise hourly. On Saturdays eleven pairs of trains run on Sundays six. Average number of passengers are almost exactly the same as carried together on all the other four lines. The route is electrified as only one in the region.

The line was built by the Canadian Northern Railway ( CNOR ). To get to downtown Montreal, a tunnel under the Mont Royal was necessary since competing railway companies blocked the rest of the access corridors. To finance the project the CNOR parceled out the land at the western tunnel portal. This resulted as a consequence the suburb of Mont -Royal. The opening of the line was made in 1918, the same year it was nationalized. Due to inadequate ventilation were steam-powered trains ( and diesel trains later) not pass through the tunnel, so the operation is electrically since time immemorial.

Line to Vaudreuil - Dorion

The second most frequented line starts at the Gare Lucien- L'Allier and performs on the region of West Iceland and Vaudreuil - Dorion to Hudson. It is 51.2 km long, serving 18 stations. On weekdays the trains in the rush hour every 20 to 30 minutes or there about every two hours. Almost all trains to Vaudreuil, while Hudson is served only once a day. On Saturdays run four pairs of trains, three on Sundays.

On the existing line between Montreal and Ottawa some new stations were opened in 1887. In response to the population growth in the western part of the Ile de Montréal, CP addressed a suburban one to Rigaud. In the 1980s and 1990s there was a modernization of the line. Since the community Rigaud no longer wanted to participate in the cost of, the line was shortened on 1 July 2010 and ends in Hudson since then.

Line to Saint - Jérôme

Another beginning in Gare Lucien- L'Allier line leads to the Mont Royal around to Laval and Blainville and on to Saint- Jérôme. It is 62.8 km long, serving 13 stations. Ten pairs of trains run on weekdays, weekends, rest of the operation. Half of the trains used in Montreal already at Parc Station, where a transition to the Metro is.

The route between Montreal and Saint- Jérôme was built in 1876 by the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway and arrived in 1882 in the possession of the CP. The passenger was discontinued in 1979. The temporary blocking of a road bridge over the Rivière des Mille Îles induced the AMT in 1997 to introduce a test basis suburban services between Parc and Blainville. The new offering has proved successful and was expanded in the following years. Since 1999, the trains run to the city center of Montreal, since 2007 to Saint - Jérôme.

Line to Mont -Saint -Hilaire

From Gare Centrale, a line crosses the Saint Lawrence River and east to Mont -Saint -Hilaire in the Richelieu Valley. It is 34.9 km long and serves seven stations. On weekdays run seven pairs of trains, the operation rests on weekends.

The Grand Trunk Railway for operation from 1859 Lokalzugpaar daily between Montreal and Mont -Saint -Hilaire. From 1920, the CN was responsible ( more to the story see railway Montreal Iceland Pond ). 1988, passenger services were set. The ever- increasing car travel in the region Rive- Sud led to an overload of the bridges over the St. Lawrence River. For this reason, the AMT decided in 2000 to perform on the track again passenger.

Line to Candiac

From Gare Lucien- L'Allier from a line runs southward over the St. Lawrence River after Candiac in the region Rive- Sud. On weekdays, there are nine pairs of trains while the operation rests on weekends. When the AMT established the line in 2001, initially frequented only two pairs of trains by Delson. Since 2005, Candiac is developed.

Projects

Realized is currently a sixth line, which will run from the Gare Centrale via Repentigny after Mascouche. She will be 51 km long and serve 14 stations. While the route to Repentigny already exists, arises from there to its final stop, a new line in the middle strip of the Autoroute 640 The opening is planned for fall of 2013, a year later than originally planned. In order for the trains to the Mont -Royal tunnel and pass the remaining distance must not be electrified, dual power locomotives will be used.