Pilot project to reduce the number of used syringes in the Montreal metro
Posted March 21, 2024 10:13 am.
Last Updated March 21, 2024 10:14 am.
Montreal’s public transit agency, the STM has launched a pilot project aiming to make transit users feel a little safer while confronted with a growing number of used syringes in the Montreal metro.
Collection boxes for used syringes will be installed in five Montreal metro stations: Papineau, Frontenac, Beaudry, Joliette, and D’Iberville.
Complaints have been increasing in the last few years regarding this issue. STM special constables also had to administer naloxone to 15 people overdosing in the metro since the start of the year.
In 2022, 66 people complained of seeing syringes in the metro. In 2023, that number had increased to 73 complaints. So far, this year the STM has received 31 complaints.
