Montreal Pairs More Metro Security With a 5% Service Increase
Montreal is investing in more metro security, social workers and surveillance, and is planning a five-per-cent increase in service beginning in 2027, Global News reports. Note the two clocks in the plan. The enforcement and social-work spending is presented as happening now; the extra service arrives on a later schedule. Announcing more surveillance and more outreach in one breath is an unusual pairing, and the sequencing means riders deal with the first part of it well before they see the second.
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Security and social work are usually offered as competing answers to the same transit problem. Funding both at once at least refuses the either/or.
The timelines split them anyway. Riders get the cameras and the patrols now; the extra service is dated 2027.