Quebec’s brief medical residents strike Saturday morning was ended by a new agreement in principle made by negotiators midday.
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A new program from the STM is designed to encourage employers to subsidize their workers’ transit passes, with a discount up to 10% for those that do. Some businesses have already signed up but many small businesses are excluded as the minimum number to participate is 10 people.
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Chris
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Chris E
This makes me think of a friend who worked for a company in Montreal that used to subsidize employees’ transit passes. While he worked there, the company was taken over by a large American corporation who almost immediately stopped subsidizing the transit passes but started paying for employees’ parking passes instead.
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ant6n
“…but many small businesses are excluded as the minimum number to participate is 10 people”
Well, i see this as a bulk purchase rebate in a way. You basically get a couple of extra % people to have monthly passes who otherwise wouldn’t get them. I.e. if 10% of the people who get their pass paid won’t use them much anyway, the person-km per ticket stays approx. the same. Plus in the longterm, you may get to convert more people to transit. -
Kate
Sure. I must sometimes write with a frown because I didn’t mean to imply I disapprove.
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Bert
No mention if the program is applicable to TRAM-3 fares and others further out.
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Michel
Cirque du Soleil pays up to 1/2, I think, of the monthly fares.
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A man was stabbed to death Saturday night in Côte-des-Neiges in what cops are calling homicide #27.
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The Huffington Post is going to launch a Quebec version.
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Ian
Oh good, another opportunity to work for free.
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This has worked well in several US cities, where it’s sometimes known as “Eco passes”.