The vast majority of City of Gatineau transit service employees don't take advantage of the free ride that comes as a perk of their employment. Documents obtained by Radio-Canada show 80 per cent of 853 workers with the Société de transport de l'Outaouais (STO) never used their free monthly passes between September 2017 and September 2018. The rest used their free fare cards at least once, but the city's numbers don't show how often. Guy Gosselin, president of the union representing STO's drivers and maintenance workers, said better hours would mean more employees could commute by bus. (Radio-Canada)An STO spokesperson confirmed more than 80 per cent of the transit agency's employees have what's described as an "unusual" schedule.

Source: CBC News October 29, 2018 15:11 UTC