"The elevators inaugurated at the Atwater Metro station earlier this week will be the last universal accessibility project taken on by Montreal's public transit authority in the near future, due to lack of funding. The Societe de Transport de Montreal (STM) pointed to Quebec's spring budget in a news release, saying that for the third year in a row, the government had not allocated any new funding for infrastructure maintenance or universal accessibility...” (Annabelle Olivier, 2025)
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Olivier, Annabelle. (2025, April 19th) STM Won't be Adding More Elevators to Metro Stations Citing Lack of Funding. Available from CBC News: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/stm-montreal-metro-universal-accessibility-elevators-1.7514276#:~:text=The%20elevators%20inaugurated%20at%20the%20Atwater%20Metro%20station,it%20says%2C%20due%20to%20a%20lack%20of%20funding.