My voice my STM

Make a difference to the future of public transit

My voice my STM is a panel of over 30,000 customers who answer surveys on topics such as our major projects, trial initiatives and service quality. By sharing their opinion, our panelists make a real difference in Montréal public transit. Join them today!

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Using exploratory walks to understand our customers

Investigating safety in the métro

For the past few months, we’ve been gathering feedback from some of our panelists in a fun new way: exploratory walks.

We invited about a dozen My voice my STM panelists with different customer profiles to visit eight downtown métro stations and tell us how they felt being in each location. The participants were accompanied by a researcher who recorded their comments.

Thanks to the feedback we received, we can now map out the safety risk factors at certain stations in our network and address them.

Inès (right), a 17-year-old CEGEP student and STM customer, describes her travel experience to a staff member. Inès was invited to walk around the interior and exterior of Lionel-Groulx station, among others. She gave us a few examples of blind spots that she felt hindered visibility and identified times of the day and evening when she might feel less safe there.

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Did you know?

Every year, we hold draws to award prizes to some of our many My voice my STM panelists.

Sign up now and create a profile to be entered automatically in a draw to win one of two quarterly $300 prizes.

Each survey you complete will then earn you a chance to win one of two $200 monthly prizes.

Sign-up contest (300$)


October 2023

Carole Anne Gascon, Montréal

The Hong An Nguyen, Montréal

July 2023

Nicole Soumis, Montréal

Alex Dunn, Montréal

May 2023

Solen Rios, Montréal

Karla Monserrat Garcia Alvarez, Montréal

January 2023

Anne-Sophie Boucher-Goyette, Montréal

Gabriel Barrière, Montréal

Survey contest (200$)


December 2023

Jason Domingo – Montréal

Réjean Duval - Montréal

November 2023

Suzanne Nault – Montréal

Chantal Raymond - Montréal

October 2023

Félix Lamontagne – Montréal

Dominic Denis - Montréal

September 2023

Lorraine Goyette – Montréal

Hélène Lacoste - Montréal

August 2023

Lyne Desjardins - Montréal

Gaetane Fontaine -  Montréal

July 2023

Giovanna Sebastiani - Montréal

Francis Plouffe - Montréal

June 2023

Richard Obidniak, Montréal

Nadie Emond, Montréal

May 2023

Clifford Jonatas, Montréal

Sophie Courchesne, Montréal

April 2023

Kate Taylor, Montréal

Francine Landry, Montréal


March 2023

Réal Cliche, Montréal

Suzanne Bolduc, Côte-Saint-Luc


February 2023

My Son, Montréal

Carole Philibien, Montréal


January 2023

Olivier Deraiche, Montréal

Zoé Cappe, Montréal

Over 5,000 new panelists have joined My voice my STM since January 2023.

On average, each panelist is invited to complete eight surveys per year, with over 19,000 people taking part in at least one survey in 2023.

The feedback helps us improve public transit in Montréal and take action.

There are two contests to reward those who take part in My voice my STM. The first is held every three (3) months and is for new panel members and consists of a draw, among them, for two prizes worth $300 (see the contest rules here).

The second one takes place each month and aims to reward those who answered surveys and consists of a draw for two prizes, each worth $200. Each completed survey earns you an additional entry in the draw (see the contest rules here).

You can take part in our surveys in two ways: by email or by text message.

For the past two years, we’ve given panelists the option of receiving our surveys via text message. 700 active panelists chose this option in 2023.

Here’s how to subscribe to text message invites:

If you’re already a panelist, email your request to info@mavoixmastm.info.

If you’d like to become a panelist, sign up here and choose to receive our invitations by text message.

Your opinion makes a big difference

Your feedback, along with that of all the STM customers who respond to our surveys or contact us, sparks discussions, projects and action plans on our end. Our goal is to turn data into action.

We’re here to listen. Your concerns are our concerns, and we’re committed to improving your experience with us.

Here are examples of some recent STM projects benefitted from panelist feedback.

Service reliability

Making sure our buses run on time is key to ensuring STM customer satisfaction. To improve our understanding of this issue, we asked for your feedback to get a better handle on your expectations. Your answers were used as part of a broader analysis program involving several STM teams. Our goal was to get the full picture of this important issue. We’ll continue to analyze your feedback into 2024 as we explore various solutions to improve your experience. We’ll keep you informed of the progress.

Awhile ago, you told us that bus frequency was the most important service factor for the bus network. We listened to you and launched a project to redesign our entire network of bus routes. We then asked for your feedback on a number of issues, one of them being the need to rethink our bus-line categories to help you recognize them more quickly and plan your trips more effectively.

In October 2023, we introduced our all-day and rush-hour high-frequency lines. At the STM, we rarely act without first consulting our customers, and this was no exception. In fact, more than 4,000 My voice my STM panelists responded to our survey, expressing their attachment to their bus numbers and their support for the idea of using colours to identify the different lines. Working from that idea, we came up with a winning proposal: 31 high‑frequency bus lines with purple signage that makes them easy to spot. Nice work, team!

Much like on-time bus service, métro service disruptions are a major concern for our customers. Through focus groups and surveys, you told us how disruptions affect your experience. Rest assured: those concerns were heard. The STM is currently working on ways to improve and optimize the métro service. It’s still a work in progress, but we’re moving forward!

Safety on our networks

Every day, members of the My voice my STM community share their feelings about safety on the bus and métro networks. Whether it’s service disruptions, overcrowding or any other situation, we want to know what affects your sense of safety. We go over your feedback each month to better target our ongoing efforts to improve your sense of safety on our networks. Thank you for always helping us identify what makes you feel unsafe—and what makes you feel comfortable—during your trips.

You helped us deepen our understanding of this societal issue within the STM network through a study conducted in 2022. As a result, we were able to take action. In partnership with the City of Montréal and the SPVM, we launched an awareness campaign to encourage bystanders to intervene. The campaign was rolled out in the city and across our network between June and September 2023. Thank you for your help with this project.

We know that safety is an integral part of your STM experience. So we tried a new, hands-on approach with nearly twenty STM customers. We followed them on their trips on the métro network to better understand their feelings, fears and reactions. The information gathered will help us make some changes, most notably by hiring security staff and modifying the layout of our facilities. We take safety seriously at the STM!

Cleanliness

We monitor the cleanliness of buses, métros and paratransit on an ongoing basis. Every day, we ask My voice my STM panelists to share their opinions on the cleanliness of our facilities and vehicles. This feedback allows us to better target problem areas and quickly implement solutions to make the environment more pleasant. We look forward to keeping up this work.

Did you happen to ride the métro from one of Laval’s stations in early June? If you did, you may have spotted STM employees cleaning the métro cars. When the customers were on board, interviewers asked them about their perception of cleanliness inside the cars and how they felt during the test.

This initiative allowed us to test an entirely new way of cleaning métro cars: at the start of the line and with customers on board. Thanks to you, the test proved to be a real success! Once again, the STM and its customers worked hand-in-hand to make the network even better.

With your help, the STM was able to do much more than what we’ve described above.

Throughout 2023, several other studies were conducted to make public transit even more accessible and attractive in Montréal.

We value your feedback. Together, we can help the STM to keep on being a leader in sustainable mobility.

Constantly improving our survey accessibility

Several improvements have made our survey platform even more accessible, and we are continuously working to improve it.

My voice my STM is a research and survey panel made up of STM bus and métro network customers who volunteered to share their opinions on a number of subjects pertaining to public transportation in the Montréal area.

STM customers of the bus and métro network who register as members of the panel are given the opportunity to share their experiences and opinions about different aspects of public transportation and thereby help to improve STM services and shape the future of public transit. By becoming a member of the My voice my STM panel and answering surveys, customers can also win prizes.

Simply click on « Sign up », then fill out the online registration form, where you will be asked to provide information about your STM customer profile. After, you will receive an email to validate your registration.

The My voice my STM panel is open to all customers who ride STM public transit and who agree to answer surveys. Such customers must have an email address.

You will be invited to answer surveys once or twice a month, depending on your customer profile and STM needs.

Survey subjects are always about public transportation and the STM. For example, your level of satisfaction with bus and métro service, your opinion about the latest promotional campaign, your universal accessibility needs or your reaction to a new service the STM is planning on providing to STM bus and métro services.

You can take part in My voice my STM as long as you like and you can also quit at any time by simply clicking on the “Cancel your subscription” link found at the bottom of any of our email communications.

Any information you give to the STM will be kept strictly confidential. To find out more, consult our Terms of Use.

Each survey is different but, on average, it should take you about 5 minutes.

The surveys will usually be available for five open days, depending on the situation.

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If you have checked your Junk Mail folder and have not been able to find a copy of your Confirmation email, please contact us at this address: info@mavoixmastm.info

You can click on the “Cancel your subscription” link found at the bottom of any of our email communications, and follow the instructions on screen to complete the process. Once you have completed this action, you will be immediately removed from the panel.

 

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