and Sustainable Mobility, Geneviève Guilbault, the federal Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and
Communities, the Honourable Sean Fraser, and the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Minister responsible for the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean Region, Andrée Laforest, announce financial contribution of $7,704,060 for the Société de transport du Saguenay (STS). This amount will be used to extend the ecomobility corridor and make public transit more accessible, safer and more comfortable.
For the occasion, the Minister was accompanied by the MNA for Dubuc, François Tremblay, the MNA for Jonquière, Yannick Gagnon, Saguenay Mayor, Julie Dufour and STS President, Claude Bouchard.
The funded project will benefit the community by providing new, more user-friendly facilities. More specifically, the work involves extending the ecomobility corridor along Jacques-Cartier and Saint-Vallier streets, by installing:
- a reserved lane
- a service building and various docks, including a waiting area;
- infrastructure to improve accessibility for people with reduced mobility, notably to go to the Centre intégré universitaire de santé et services sociaux du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean (CIUSSS).
These projects will improve the capacity, quality and safety of the City of Saguenay's existing public transit network, while helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and thus combat climate change.
