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bus shelters in Montreal.

bus shelters in Montreal.

Engineered, supplied, and installed in Montreal, Quebec — climate-rated, AODA-compliant, with stamped drawings.

bus shelters in Montreal, Quebec
At a glance

Montreal, QC

Montreal, Quebec, is served by Société de transport de Montréal (STM) (220 routes) and is home to roughly 4,200 transit shelters across the city. The local design code requires every shelter to handle a 2. 5 kPa snow load and a 0.

Transit authority
Société de transport de Montréal (STM) · 220 routes
Shelter network
~4,200 shelters
Snow load (Ss)
2.5 kPa
Wind load (q1/50)
0.42 kPa
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Specifications

Engineering Specs for Montreal

Transit authoritySociété de transport de Montréal (STM) · 220 routes
Shelter network~4,200 shelters
Snow load (Ss)2.5 kPa
Wind load (q1/50)0.42 kPa
Frost depth1.5 m
Climate zoneZone 6
Avg snowfall210 cm
Avg winter temp-9.3°C
Accessibility codeCNB / RBQ
Population1.8M
On the ground in

bus shelters in Montreal

The Montreal fleet operates roughly 4200 shelters across 220 Société de transport de Montréal (STM) routes, with stamped engineering at Ss 2. 5 kPa snow load and q1/50 0. 42 kPa wind load. Local installs use municipal-permit submission, locate-clearance documentation, and traffic-management plans co-ordinated with Quebec highway and right-of-way standards.

Montreal — Engineering & Permits

Replacement parts ship from Brantford with a 48-hour SLA to Montreal maintenance teams, and our regional install crews are bonded and insured for Quebec prevailing-wage public-sector work.

In Montreal, Quebec, every shelter is engineered to 210 cm annual snowfall, -9.3 °C average winter temperature, and 1.5 m frost-depth footings — with CNB / RBQ accessibility compliance and stamped engineering for Zone 6. BusShelters.ca delivers, installs, and maintains for Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and private clients.

Benefits

Why Montreal clients choose BusShelters.ca

Built for Canadian WintersStamped to NBCC 2020 snow and wind loads for every Canadian municipality — frost-depth footings from 0.6 m to 3.0 m.
Procurement-ReadyStamped drawings, BOM, COC, and as-built package delivered with every shipment so AHJ review is single-pass.
AODA & CSA CompliantMeets AODA, CSA B651-18 accessibility, and CSA Z97.1 safety-glass requirements without optional add-ons.
48-Hour Parts SLAReplacement glazing, panels, and benches ship within 48 hours from our Brantford, Ontario warehouse.
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions — Montreal

Do you supply French-language labelling and signage for Quebec deployments?

Yes. All shelters destined for Quebec ship with **French-only or French-dominant signage** in compliance with the **Charte de la langue française (Loi 96)**. Manuals, decals, and digital displays default to French with English available where federally regulated. Our Montreal and Quebec City installation crews are bilingual. Bill 96 (Loi 96) tightened French-signage requirements effective **June 2025** — functional copy on transit signage must be in French, and where bilingual signage is permitted the French version must be at least equally prominent. We work with the **Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF)** signage standard for every Quebec deployment and supply the **francophone-review certificate** with project closeout. Our QC project manager is bilingual and routes francophone content through native review before fabrication. Same approach for **New Brunswick official-bilingualism** sites — both languages, equal prominence, OQLF-equivalent review.

How do you handle graffiti and vandalism?

Anti-graffiti coatings on glass and panels allow most tags to be removed with a non-abrasive cleaner. For damaged glass, our **48-hour Canada-wide replacement program** dispatches tempered glass from regional depots in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, and Vancouver. Our maintenance contracts include monthly cleaning, quarterly inspection, and annual hardware torque checks. Treatment depends on incident frequency: **sacrificial film** (clear polymer sheet swappable in under 4 minutes) is right for high-vandalism corridors where panels are tagged weekly — replacement film costs **$30–$60 per panel** versus $200–$400 to refurbish a permanently-coated panel. **Permanent fluoropolymer coating** is right for low-vandalism sites where the once-a-year clean-down justifies the initial uplift. For glass breakage, **8–10 mm polycarbonate** instead of tempered glass survives baseball-bat-grade impact and is the default spec on school and campus deployments.

Can I see a bus shelter in person before ordering?

Yes. Our **showroom in Brantford, Ontario** displays full-size production units of every product line. We also maintain installed reference sites in **Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, and Halifax** that prospective municipal clients can visit by appointment. Engineering and procurement teams can request stamped drawings and material samples shipped overnight. Our **showroom in Brantford, Ontario** has full-size examples of every product line — standard, solar, heated, accessible, smart, modular, and several custom-architectural pieces — set up as you'd see them on the street. We host site visits **Monday–Friday 8am–5pm Eastern** by appointment; group visits for transit-authority procurement teams are common and we'll co-ordinate the agenda with your team's schedule. For teams outside Ontario, we can also direct you to deployed-in-the-field reference sites in your region — most of our recent municipal installs have a public-right-of-way location available for inspection.

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Send us your scope, route, or RFP — our bid desk responds within one business day with stamped engineering and a fixed quote.

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