Transport MRC de Joliette is responsible for organising public transportation services throughout the

Joliette Regional County Municipality Joliette () is a regional county municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Joliette. The municipality has a land area of 417.41 km2. At the 2021 census it had a population of 71,124. Subdivisions There are 10 s ...

, but also a large part of the administrative region of

Lanaudière Lanaudière (, ) is one of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada, situated immediately to the northeast of Montreal. It has a total population ( 2016 Census) of 494,796 inhabitants, an increase of 4.9% over the 2011 census. Geogr ...

, northeast of

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, in central

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, Canada.

History

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 Joliette () is a city in southwest Quebec, Canada. It is approximately northeast of Montreal, on the L'Assomption River and is the seat of the Regional County Municipality of Joliette. It is considered to be a part of the North Shore of G ...

L'Assomption L'Assomption () is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the L'Assomption River. It is the seat of the Regional County Municipality of L'Assomption. It is located on the outer fringes of the Montreal urban area. ...

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, Montcalm and

Les Moulins Les Moulins () is a regional county municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada. It is located immediately north of Laval, Quebec, Laval on the North Shore (Laval), north shore of the Rivière des Mille-Îles, and comprises the muni ...

, 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. In June 2017, Quebec Ministry of Transport approved the law 76, which modified the transport gouvernance of transport entities in the Metropolitan Region of Montréal. The Administration of the CRTL was transferred to the MRC de Joliette – Division Transport, as well as the CTJM () and the TAJM () got implemented into the MRC de Joliette's transport division the same date.

Services

The municipalities of Joliette and Notre-Dame-des-Prairies as well as the municipalities of Crabtree, Notre-Dame-de-Loudres, Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare, Saint-Charles-Boromée, Sainte-Mélanie, Saint-Paul, Saint-Pierre and Saint-Thomas are being served by Transport MRC de Joliette (Interurban Routes). Specialized accessible transportation is administered locally within each member regional county municipality. Some southern municipalities within the region that are part of

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are serviced by

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's Terrebonne-Mascouche and L'Assomption sector.

Bus Terminals

* Terminus Joliette : This small office, located at 942, rue St-Louis in Joliette, is owned and operated by Transport MRC de Joliette and is not part of the ARTM system, but is partnered with it.https://www.notredamedesprairies.com/la-mrc-de-joliette-inaugure-son-terminus-symbole-de-sa-vision-dun-transport-collectif-accessible-et-efficace/

Bus routes

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