OPUS card

Why have an OPUS card?

With ridership constantly increasing, public transit is undergoing exciting changes, including the OPUS card, which was first introduced in 2008.

For riders, the new OPUS smart card system makes it easier to buy and use passes, and even tickets. For transit corporations and organizations, it helps better control revenues and also helps significantly cut down on fraud. So everyone benefits!

How to use it

Practical, clever and safe, your OPUS card accompanies you on all your trips in Laval and Greater Montréal, whether you take the bus, metro or train!

Various passes and tickets may be loaded on an OPUS card. For example, a monthly STL pass and 8 STM tickets or a Zone 3 TRAM. And so regardless of where and how you travel, you always use the same OPUS card.

You are entitled to reduced or student fares?

The OPUS card replaces reduced-fare and student access cards. So you need only one single card, which contains your valid pass, with your fare entitlement and your photo ID.

You use public transit only from time to time?

Since the OPUS card allows you to load tickets, you can now benefit from all its advantages, even if you only occasionally travel on public transit.

You may also load occasional fares of each of the OPUS card project partners: the STL, STM, RTL and AMT.

Where to get your OPUS card

You travel on regular fare?

You can get an OPUS card at one of our points of sale or at one of the two metropolitan ticket offices. No form to fill out is required.

You travel on reduced or student fare?

You must go to one of the two metropolitan ticket offices, with the duly completed universal form for reduced fares. There, your photo will be taken and your OPUS card issued on site. Your OPUS card will then be automatically registered and can therefore be restored, with the passes and tickets it contains, in case of theft, loss or breakage.

You want to reload your OPUS card?

You may load your OPUS card at the glassed-in booth next to the turnstiles at the metro, at a metropolitan ticket office or at one of the STL’s points of sale. Automatic fare dispensers are in operation at metro and commuter train stations. There, you can load your OPUS card yourself by paying with your credit card or debit card. Some dispensers also accept cash payment.

Don’t forget to keep your receipts when you obtain transit fares in this way. Your receipt is proof of purchase and may be needed to obtain the Federal tax credit for your monthly public transit pass. It is highly recommended that you photocopy your receipts, as some dispensers use thermal ink that can erase over time.

What should I do if my OPUS card is defective ?

If your OPUS card is defective, you should go to one of the two metropolitain ticket offices to have your OPUS card checked.

OPUS +

OPUS+ is a membership to an indefinite-term transit pass. Your OPUS card is therefore valid all year long. You no longer have to wait in line at the end of every month to reload your OPUS card.

Once you subscribe, you automatically receive your OPUS card by mail—valid and ready to use.

The OPUS+ membership gives you so much more! For more information visit OPUS +

Protect Your OPUS Card

The OPUS replacement guarantee… what exactly does it mean?

It’s a service offered to registered OPUS cardholders, whereby transit fares that haven’t been used and are still valid can be restored on a new OPUS card, in case of loss, theft or breakage. Register your OPUS card to one of the metropolitan ticket offices on Laval territory (Cartier or Montmorency), online or by mail. Upload form: http://www.amt.qc.ca/titres_tarifs.aspx?id=2325&LangType=1033