The city of Montreal is looking for new ways to fund public transit and it says money from taxpayers can do the trick.
On Monday evening, city council adopted a plan created by the Canadian Urban Transit Association.
The Toronto-based group says Canadian cities need more than $20 billion to maintain public transit infrastructure over the next 2 years.
It's pushing the federal government to implement a national transit strategy and the taxpayer dollars to go with it.
Montreal is the second major Canadian city, after Halifax, to support the plan called Vision 2040.
The future
Mayor Gerald Tremblay has laid out ambitious proposals for transit improvements in the city.
His transportation plan calls for $8 billion in spending over 20 years for things like tramways, metro extensions and more commuter trains.
