If all goes well, public transit users will finally be able to recharge their OPUS card themselves via their cell phone and say goodbye to the queues of the first days of the month from 2024.
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The Autorité régionale du transport métropolitain (ARTM), which oversees Greater Montreal’s four public transit organizations, launched a call for tenders on Tuesday to find a supplier capable of creating a system that will allow you to recharge your opus card via his cell phone.
The measure would thus affect public transit users in Greater Montreal, but also those in Quebec City, Lévis and Joliette, where the OPUS card is also used.
The ARTM hopes that the new way of doing things can be implemented from the first half of 2024, a deadline that will however be modified depending on the supplier that will be selected.
“Citizens’ travel habits are constantly changing and to respond effectively to their needs, provide them with more autonomy and flexibility, the ARTM is diversifying sales channels by allowing the purchase of transport tickets from a telephone. smart, anywhere, anytime, without going to a point of sale,” the organization explained.