In the event you depend on the STM to get round Higher Montreal, brace your self for a value hike this summer time.
The Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain (ARTM) introduced Friday that fares throughout the area will enhance beginning July 1, 2026. The company is sustaining its common indexation price at 3%, the minimal threshold set out below its 2025-2028 funding technique agreed upon with the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal and the Quebec authorities.
The company acknowledged the timing is not very best. “We’re totally conscious of the impression that the annual indexation represents in a context the place the price of dwelling is placing vital stress on households,” ARTM director basic Benoît Gendron mentioned in a launch.
There’s one piece of comparatively excellent news buried within the announcement. Single and two-ride fares usually are not altering. Whether or not you are shopping for a one-trip or two-trip cross for the bus or any of the Tous modes zones (A, AB, ABC, or ABCD), these costs keep the place they’re. This is what they will stay at:
Tous modes A
- 1 trip: $3.75 (common) / $2.75 (decreased)
- 2 rides: $7.00 (common) / $5.00 (decreased)
Tous modes AB
- 1 trip: $5.00 (common) / $3.50 (decreased)
- 2 rides: $9.75 (common) / $7.00 (decreased)
Tous modes ABC
- 1 trip: $7.00 (common) / $4.75 (decreased)
- 2 rides: $13.50 (common) / $9.00 (decreased)
Tous modes ABCD
- 1 trip: $9.50 (common) / $6.75 (decreased)
- 2 rides: $18.50 (common) / $13.00 (decreased)
The place riders will really feel it’s on their month-to-month passes. The ARTM is making use of a flat greenback enhance throughout all Tous modes month-to-month passes: $5.50 extra for normal fares and $3.25 extra for decreased fares.
For Montrealers driving throughout the island, the common Tous modes A month-to-month cross goes to $110.00. These travelling between Montreal, Laval, and the Longueuil agglomeration pays $170.00 for the Tous modes AB month-to-month cross. The Tous modes ABC cross climbs to $206.00, and the Tous modes ABCD, which covers areas exterior the ARTM territory, reaches $281.00 monthly.
Restricted-time passes like night and weekend choices may also see slight will increase of some cents the place out there, and 10-ride blocks are going up by roughly $1 on common.
One different change coming July 1: transitional REM fares for the South Shore hall are being phased out. Launched in 2023 to ease the transition to the brand new community, these tickets are being changed by the usual Tous modes choices. South Shore REM riders might want to decide up whichever cross corresponds to their journey zones going ahead.