New navigation system supposed to improve STM metro service
Plans are in the works to extend the blue metro line to Anjou by 2029, adding five additional stops. Officials want to use the expansion opportunity to upgrade the STM navigation system as the blue line line is extended and the new stations are built.
”We have to be there for the blue line extension because we cannot run on the old system,” Caldwell said. Some other public transit systems that carry more than one million passengers a day, such as in New York, London and Madrid, have been using CBTC for years.Officials say it’s time the STM catches up.
”It’s the technology of all new metros in the world,” Marie-Claude Léonard, STM CEO, told Global News.STM Getting Communications Based Train Control system to better track movement, frequency and reliability of STM metro cars on blue line in 2028. But many other transit systems such as in NYC, Madrid, London and Beijing have had the technology in place for years.
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