More métro stations get electronic screens
Work will be done by end of 2014
Soon, more Montreal métro passengers will know when the next subway is about to arrive.
Electronic screens are currently only in place on the platforms of 16 of the métro’s 68 stations. The screens display the times of the next two trains, as well as advertising.
In the coming months, the Société de transport de Montréal will begin installing screens at 26 more métro stations. Next year, the remaining 26 stations will be outfitted, said STM spokesperson Isabelle Tremblay.
She could not provide the cost of the plan, noting some of the work has only recently been put out to tender.
The work is part of a $245-million plan to upgrade métro infrastructure in 2013 and 2014.
The stations to get the screens this year are: As- somption, Beaudry, Cadillac, Côte-des-Neiges, Côte-Ste-Catherine, de la Savane, du Collège, Édouard-Montpetit, Frontenac, Georges-Vanier, Jean-Drapeau, Joliette, Langelier, Lucien-L’Allier, Namur, Papineau, Peel, Pie-IX, Place-St-Henri, Plamondon, Préfontaine, Radisson, Snowdon, StLaurent, Viau and Villa Maria.
STM screens normally provide accurate information, unlike those on many commuter-train platforms operated by the Agence métropolitaine de transport.
In 2009, the AMT promised electronic screens on station platforms with details about late and cancelled trains. Four years later, only 25 of 51 stations feature screens with realtime information about delays; the rest only show scheduled train times.
By year-end, all 51 stations will have electronic screens showing real-time train information, the AMT told The Gazette this month.