The county-owned service was founded in 1986 after the collapse of previous transit providers.

The cost for the transit provider is mostly fixed, why should the price to the end user vary?

Both Amtrak and the nation's transit providers are woefully short.

But in many ways, the authority - the largest transit provider in the Western hemisphere - is completely unlike those counterparts.

Also about 5% of the system is contracted to private transit providers.

Greater Montreal is served by a number of public transit providers.

Intra-urban: The national and municipal governments regulate a wide system of private transit providers which operate numerous bus lines around the city.

Increased redundancy (by reducing dependence on one or more transit providers).

A desire to peer with the upstream transit provider of the peered network.

The transit provider receives a "transit fee" for the service.