Tourisme vert à Montréal

3.2. Public transit
3.2.2. Montréal's public transit system (cont'd)
• A Statistics Canada study of car dependence in Canadian metropolitan areas shows that Montréalers are
the least likely to have made all their trips by car. In fact, scarcely 29% of Montréalers living within a 5-km
radius of downtown travelled everywhere by car, compared to 43% of Torontonians, 56% of Vancouverites
and 66% of Calgarians. Montréal also had the highest percentage of public transit trips.
• In 2009, the City of Montréal was honoured with a Climatic Leadership Award for its Transportation Plan.
This award recognizes the best initiatives for combating climate change. Montréal won the award for:
– Its commitment to reducing 30% of the city’s GHG emissions by 2020 as compared to 1990;
– Adopting a complete and detailed transportation plan;
– Its opposition to projects that would result in an increase or would develop the use of automobiles.
Sources:
- Ville de Montréal, “Les Montréalais les moins enclins à utiliser l’automobile au Canada,” Ce que les études nous révèlent, 22 Jan. 2008,
Jun. 2011.
- Montréal 2025. “Montréal honorée à Copenhague,” n.p. Dec. 2009, Jun. 2011.
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