Exo Sorel-Varennes sector

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Sorel-Varennes sector
Headquarters191, rue Du Roi, Sorel-Tracy
Service area urban area
Service type bus service
Routes8
Operator Groupe Transbus [1]
Website citsv.qc.ca (French)

The CIT Sorel-Varennes (CITSV), formally the Conseil Intermunicipal de Transport Sorel-Varennes, provides public transportation to the municipalities in the area northeast from Montreal along the right bank of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. The communities served by CITSV stretch downstream along Quebec Highway 132, from Varennes through Saint-Amable, Verchères, Contrecoeur, Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu to Tracy, Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel and Sorel.

Montreal City in Quebec, Canada

Montreal is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada. Originally called Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. It has a distinct four-season continental climate with warm to hot summers and cold, snowy winters.

Saint Lawrence River Large river in eastern Canada and the United States, flowing into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence

The Saint Lawrence River is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. The Saint Lawrence River flows in a roughly north-easterly direction, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean and forming the primary drainage outflow of the Great Lakes Basin. It traverses the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, and is part of the international boundary between Ontario, Canada, and the U.S. state of New York. This river provides the basis for the commercial Saint Lawrence Seaway.

Quebec Province of Canada

Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario and the bodies of water James Bay and Hudson Bay; to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to the south by the province of New Brunswick and the US states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is historically and politically considered to be part of Central Canada.

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Services

Services consist of eight bus routes running to the Longueuil terminal of AMT, which is part of the Longueuil–Université-de-Sherbrooke Metro complex. [2]

No.OriginTerminus
700 Sorel bus station - Plaza Tracy - Verchères (local) Longueuil via De Montarville
705Sorel bus station - Plaza Tracy (express)Longueuil
720 Varennes (via Ecole Labarre)Longueuil via De Montarville
721 Varennes (via Frontenac)
722 Varennes (via Charles-Primeau)
723 IREQ - VarennesLongueuil
724École J-P-Labarre - Varennes (express)
730 Saint-Amable

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References

  1. Groupe Transbus
  2. "CIT Sorel-Varennes, list of routes". Archived from the original on 2009-04-11. Retrieved 2008-07-26.