Starting next year, public transit users in the Montreal region will be able to use their smartphone instead of their OPUS card to scan their fare.
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“The gradual deployment of the digitalization of the OPUS card in the smartphone will begin during the summer of 2025,” indicated the Regional Metropolitan Transport Authority (ARTM) in a press release Thursday.
However, it will not yet be possible to pay with a debit, credit card or telephone directly.
“The ARTM is committed to modernizing the public transit ticketing ecosystem to improve the user experience and this functionality is part of the vast Concerto project that will deliver new features continuously over the coming years to make services more fluid and offer solutions that concretely improve the daily lives of users and increase the appeal of public transit,” said the ARTM in an email sent to the QMI Agency.
Until next summer, users can at least use their smartphone to top up their OPUS card via the Chrono app.
The feature was rolled out on April 10th.
Despite some glitches in the first weeks of use, notably due to the high number of users, some 490,000 transactions have been carried out since this deployment, according to the ARTM.
In addition, the pilot project for payment by bank card on board buses, already implemented in Laval, will be extended to certain exo lines on the north shore starting this fall.
