The Exo du Haut-Saint-Laurent sector provides a bus service, operated under the auspices of

Le Haut-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality Le Haut-Saint-Laurent ''(Upper Saint Lawrence)'' is a regional county municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Montérégie region. Its seat is in Huntingdon, Quebec, Huntingdon and it is named for the Saint Lawrence River which forms i ...

, in southwestern

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. The CITHSL serves the communities, within the region, of

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, Howick,

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and also Sainte-Martine, in the adjoining Region of Beauharnois-Salaberry, and

Mercier Mercier is French for ''notions dealer'' or ''haberdasher'', and may refer to: People *Agnès Mercier, French curler and coach * Annick Mercier (born 1964), French curler *Amanda H. Mercier (born 1975), American Judge *Armand Mercier, (1933–201 ...

in Roussillon Region.

Fixed route bus service

While demand response service is available in all of the above communities, CIT also operates one fixed commuter service. The line operates seven days a week, with reduced frequency on weekends. The route starts at Huntingdon and runs along

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; it terminates at either Angrignon station on the

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or continues to downtown near the

Terminus Centre-Ville Terminus Centre-Ville is a bus terminus located within 1000 de La Gauchetière 1000 de la Gauchetière is a skyscraper in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is named for its address at 1000 De la Gauchetière Street West in the downtown core. It ...

bus station. Due to congestion, as of 25 August 2008, the downtown stop was moved out of the bus terminus. Originally, it was to be relocated nearby on Boulevard René-LévesqueAMT Notice: Moving some CIT routes on to streets
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CIT du Sud-Ouest Exo Sud-Ouest sector is the bus service that operates bus routes from Montreal to Kahnawake, Châteauguay, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Saint-Zotique and Les Coteaux on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Bus routes Re ...

(CITSO), but were later moved to rue St-Antoine and Mansfield. Along its route, the bus also stops in

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and

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, immediately south of the

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, but does not provide service between Montreal and those communities, which have their own bus service provided by CITSO.

References

External links

Transit History of Montreal suburbs, Conseil Intermunicipal de Transport (CIT)

Town of Mercier - public transit
Transit agencies in Quebec Bus transport in Quebec Transport in Montérégie {{Canada-bus-transport-stub