Better transit funding could have prevented STM strikes, critics say

Weeks of transit turmoil and shutdowns could have been avoided by better funding Montreal’s transit system, critics say in the wake of two overlapping strikes that brought the city’s bus and métro service to a standstill for the first half of November. The month began with the bus and métro operators’ first strike in 38 years, shutting down transit for an entire day. In the days that followed, a third STM maintenance workers’ strike brought transit to daily