Locale Lanaudière Headquarters Joliette Service types Transit bus, Paratransit | Website CRTL Homepage Date founded 2002 | |
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Service area MRC de D'Autray, MRC de Joliette, MRC de Matawinie and MRC de Montcalm | ||
The CRT Lanaudière (CRTL) is responsible for organising public transportation services throughout the administrative region of Lanaudière, northeast of Montreal, in central Quebec, Canada.
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The Quebec Ministry of Transport produced a report in 1999 which analyzed the Lanaudière region's transport problems. This report overwhelmingly favoured a public transportation service managed within the region instead of the integration of existing public transit in L'Assomption and Les Moulins with either of the large Montreal (STM) or Laval (STL) systems. The result of this was the creation of the Conseil régional de transport Lanaudière in 2002, under the management of the six regional county municipalities of D'Autray, Joliette, L'Assomption, Matawinie, Montcalm and Les Moulins, with additional transit user representation on the board. This also required each MRC to manage operations in their territory, with a structure which may vary depending on different local needs.
Services
The southern municipalities within the region are still serviced by MRC Les Moulins public transit (Transport en commun de la MRC Les Moulins) and RTC de la MRC de L'Assomption (Réseau de transport collectif de la MRC de L'Assomption), while the communities at a longer distance from Montreal are the ones that are serviced by CRT Lanaudière. Specialized accessible transportation is administered locally within each member regional county municipality.