Exo (public transit)

Exo
An outbound train on the Mont-Saint-Hilaire line (left); An Exo commuter bus in Downtown Montreal (right)
Overview
LocaleGreater Montreal
Transit type
Number of lines
  • 5 (commuter rail)
  • 219 (bus)
Number of stations
  • 52 rail stations
  • 11 bus terminuses
Annual ridership
  • 16,613,172 (bus)
  • 7,051,965 (commuter rail)
  • 736,451 (paratransit)
  • 90,725 (on demand)
(2024)
Chief executiveSylvain Yelle
Headquarters700 rue de la Gauchetière, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Websiteexo.quebec/en
Operation
Began operation
  • 1859 (first section)
  • January 1, 1996 (as AMT)
  • June 1, 2017 (2017-06-01) (as Réseau de transport métropolitain/Exo)
Reporting marksEXO
Infrastructure manager(s)
Number of vehicles
  • 41 locomotives
  • 206 passenger cars (2024)

Exo, stylized as exo and officially known as the Réseau de transport métropolitain (French pronunciation: [ʁezo tʁɑ̃spɔʁ metʁɔpɔlitɛ̃], RTM; English: Metropolitan Transportation Network), is a public transport system in Greater Montreal, including the Island of Montreal, Laval (Île Jésus), and communities along both the North Shore of the Mille-Îles River and the South Shore of the St. Lawrence River. It was created on June 1, 2017, taking over Montreal's commuter rail services from the former Agence métropolitaine de transport as well as bus and paratransit services from the various suburban municipal and intermunicipal transit agencies. Exo operates the second busiest such system in Canada after Toronto's GO Transit.

Exo's territory is concurrent with Montreal Metropolitan Community limits, with the addition of the Kahnawake First Nations reserve and the city of Saint-Jérôme. It serves a population of approximately 4 million people who make more than 174,000 trips daily in the 4,258.97 km2 (1,644.40 sq mi) area radiating from Montreal.