The Exo Richelain / Roussillon sector is the division of Exo that delivers bus service to the municipalities of La Prairie, Candiac, Delson, Saint-Constant, Saint-Philippe and Sainte-Catherine, which are suburbs southeast of

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. The territory serviced lies in the

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History

At the time when Exo was created in 2017, the territory that this now sector covers was served by three organizations: * CIT Richelain that covered bus service for La Prairie, Candiac and Saint-Philippe (and prior to 2001 the communities that now form

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); * CIT Roussillon, created in 1984 and providing commuter bus service to Delson, Saint-Constant and Sainte-Catherine; and * TARSO, that offered paratransit to all of the municipalities above. In 2018, Exo awarded Transdev the contract to run service for the Richelain sector. The contract start date was January 1, 2019 and runs till June 30, 2024 with a 3-year option for exo to extend the contract till June 30, 2027. Exo operated Roussillon and Le Richelian as their own sectors until they were merged on July 31, 2023, when the

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opened. The new sector's bus network was reconfigured to send commuters heading

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stations insetad of

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Services

Local bus routes

Express bus routes

Regional bus routes

References

External links

Transit History of Montreal suburbs, Conseil Intermunicipal de Transport (CIT)
{{Authority control Transit agencies in Quebec Exo (public transit) Bus transport in Quebec La Prairie, Quebec Transport in Roussillon Regional County Municipality