RTC strike: complicated trips at the exit of FEQ

The strike launched by the Syndicate of Employees for Maintenance of the Capital Transport Network (RTC) complicated travel to the city center of several festival-goers on Friday evening.

Several revised their options in anticipation of return home after taking advantage of the Quebec Summer Festival (FEQ).

A festival party had chosen the option of a taxi to arrive in Haute-Ville before the shows. We waited for a little more than 30 minutes sometimesshe is discouraged. His group finally decided to call a friend to come and collect them.

For those who chose the car, patience was in order. Look, it doesn’t go forwardsaid a motorist by pointing the intersection of avenue Honoré-Mercier and rue Saint-Joachim. It took him about thirty minutes to cross the few meters leaving the parking lot.

The taxi option is also very popular at the exit of festival -goers.

The driver, Acheck Idriss, will only have waited until ten minutes in front of the Le Concorde hotel for a festival -goer to ask him for a connection. With the strike of RTCthere are a lot of calls for us, that’s somethinghe adds.

He also expects to finish a little later tonight and in the coming days. We will stay up to three or four in the morning.

Creative festival -goers

Many festival -goers had to find a plan B to access the various sites of Feq At the end of the afternoon. At the parking lot in Avelo on avenue George-Vi, several businesses of the bus were first with this service.

This is the case of Alex Courtois-Guay which normally uses the shuttle services of RTC To get to the summer festival.

We did not have the choice because, listen, we will not pay a Uber at $ 40 or a taxihe mentions after having parked his bike. By car eitheradds Marie-Pierre Marceau, who accompanies him, by evoking congestion on several arteries to access the Haute-Ville.

I have taken a complete bay leaf so farblows Erika Tremblay in front of a public wateredler visibly exhausted from her journey which has just ended. Usually I take the bus and I disembark not far from the parliamentary hill, but we had to find a solution so I took my bikeshe adds.

Some must be more creative, such as Sylvie Bourassa, who lives in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures. She wanted to avoid parking near the various sites. I parked my car in Sillery, about seven or eight kilometers from here. Then there I did the rest by bikeshe says. A journey that will have taken it in the end a little less than an hour. It’s part of reality for this editionshe adds.

To avoid this congestion, Tommy Caillé and his friends chose to arrive earlier. We arrived around 2 p.m. this afternoon, so the road went pretty well. We had received a message from the hotel telling us that there would surely be traffic and barred streets.

The RTC Evaluated the number of trips to 300,000 during the Quebec Summer Festival.