Doubts raised over Plante's pledge to add 300 hybrid buses

The feasibility of newly elected Mayor Valérie Plante and her Projet Montréal party’s promise to add 300 hybrid buses to the city’s public transit fleet, touted by Plante during the election campaign as her “No. 1 priority,” is coming under increased scrutiny.
Opposition critics note that Projet’s estimates for the cost of the buses alone, which run in the range of $750,000 each, is $225 million. Additional costs that were not noted, however, could bri