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The Rapibus is in construction mode!
On November 30, attended by numerous
dignitaries and guests, the Société de transport
de l'Outaouais (STO) broke the ground in the symbolic
sod turning to announce the start of construction on the
Rapibus, a 15-km corridor exclusively for buses that will
run east-west along the existing railway right-of-way
through the heart of Gatineau. The Rapibus route will
have 12 stations and a bicycle path next to the corridor.
At a cost of $233.5 million, the Rapibus is the most extensive
construction site to start in the Outaouais. The Rapibus
service is scheduled to start in the fall of 2011.
From left to right in the photo:
Line Thiffeault, Assistant General Manager of the STO;
Michel Brissette, General Manager of the STO; Marc Bureau,
Mayor of Gatineau; Patrice Martin, Chairman of the STO;
Norman Macmillan, Quebec Minister for Transport, Minister
responsible for the Outaouais region and Member for Papineau;
the Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs
and former chairman of the STO; and Sylvain Martel, Rapibus
Project Office Manager.
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An STO employee honoured by CUTA
Bus driver Luc Champagne received
one of the national public transit employee recognition
awards in the Distinguished Service category at the
Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA) conference
in Montreal in November 2009. This award is presented
to individuals who have made a significant contribution
to public transit through advocacy, leadership, workplace
improvement initiatives, or policy or legislative initiatives.
The photo shows STO General Manager
Michel Brissette, recipient Luc Champagne and Assistant
General Manager Line Thiffeault.
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The STO’s Club Sélect honoured by ATUQ
The STO’s Club Sélect
was given the Exceptional Achievement award presented
by the Association du transport urbain du Québec
(ATUQ) at its annual conference in September 2009.
For the occasion, Richard Beausoleil, Jacques Jolicoeur
and Michel Lavoie, drivers and members in Club Sélect’s
Gold category, were nominated to collect the award.
Now in its fifth year, Club Sélect aims primarily
to recognize bus drivers who have an exemplary driving
record of 25 years or more without an avoidable accident.
The photo shows STO Chairman
Patrice Martin; bus drivers Richard Beausoleil, Jacques
Jolicoeur and Michel Lavoie; STO General Manager Michel
Brissette and Assistant Operations Manager Robert
Lapointe.
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A Great Summer for this Grand Prize Winner!
Manon Céré is the
grand prize winner in the "Summer Fun with
the STO" contest launched to celebrate summer.
The grand prize, worth more than $700, consisted
of several appealing prizes, including two balloon
flights and four wristband passes to the Gatineau
Hot Air Balloon Festival.
About 80 prizes worth a total of
$5,200 were also handed out to several participants.
More than 750 people entered this contest.
The photo shows, the happy
contest winner, Manon Céré, accompanied
by STO General Manager Michel Brissette.
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The STO and the STM unveil the results of the UTSP
The Outaouais and Montreal transit
corporations (STO and STM) unveiled the results of the
Urban Transportation Showcase Program (UTSP) on June
3, 2009. This program, carried out with financial contributions
from Transport Canada and the Quebec Ministry of Transport,
and the participation of the cities of Gatineau and
Montreal, provides support for projects being undertaken
by different organizations in Canada in order to test
sustainable transportation options.
Known as the Ligne verte (green route),
the STO's project involved a set of measures to make
public transit more appealing along the Gréber
corridor, where seven regular buses and two hybrid diesel-electric
buses were running.
All the measures introduced by the
STO, including the two hybrid buses and the Ligne verte
infrastructures, helped to reduced greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions by 1,000 tonnes, which is equivalent to removing
200 vehicles from the roads in the region. The UTSP
was a success every leg of the way!
From left to right in the photo:
Norman Macmillan, Quebec Minister for Transport, Minister
Responsible for the Outaouais Region and Member for
Papineau; Marc Bureau, Mayor of the City of Gatineau;
Marvin Rotrand, Vice-chairman of the STM Board of Directors;
Patrice Martin, Chairman of the STO; Lawrence Cannon,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister responsible for
the Outaouais Region and MP for Pontiac.
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Launch of the TAG Showcase at the STO
On May 27, 2009, Les Industries TAG
Rive-Sud unveiled the controlled vacuum fare collection
system installed in the STO's facilities. This innovative
technology does not require any money to be handled.
The system allows data to be obtained in real time,
from the revenues that have been collected in the buses
until the end of the cycle. The new fare collection
system will save time, effort and money.
"The Société is
pleased to be a technology showcase for other public
transit corporations given that it already uses fare
boxes made by TAG," stated Patrice Martin, Chairman
of the STO.
From left to right in the photo:
Claude Renaud, Director of Operations; Michel Brissette,
STO General Manager; Steven Blaney, MP for Lévis-Bellechasse,
Patrice Martin, STO Chairman; Gilles Tardif, President
of Les Industries TAG Rive-Sud and Patrick Carrier,
designer of the controlled vacuum fare collection system.
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