If someone wants to translate my comment please do. My written French is not strong enough…
According to the presentation on the website: http://libreauquotidien.sto.ca/services-proposal.php we already waste 10 days per year commuting to and from work (that works out to 1 hour of commuting per day)… well, by ADDING a minimum of 40 minutes each day for 250 working days per year… that adds 167 hours per year… almost 7 MORE days… wasted just to get to and from work!
One of their goals with the implementation of Rapibus is to increase ridership and decrease traffic… this won’t happen when everyone moves to car pooling and working different hours to avoid the increase in travel time. They don’t seem to understand that our time is valuable… we all have children, pets, families, friends, personal obligations and activities, volunteer organizations etc. that depend on our time… do we really want to give more of OUR time to the STO and take it away from our REAL lives?
I believe this Rapibus system will improve the situation for those living along it’s route… at least I hope so. As for those of us on the Express and Interzone routes… I see nothing except for added stress due to less time for what’s really important to us… in each of our days.