With the looming transit strike by the 2,400 unionized STM maintenance workers in Montreal, commuters and businesses are bracing for challenges as they prepare to adapt to limited bus and metro services starting Saturday.

The strike is scheduled to last four weeks, with service restricted to morning and evening rush hours, and late at night.

“I got stuck downtown during the last strike and it happened to me two or three times that I was stuck downtown or near there,” said Oren J. Sendel, a student at Concordia University. “I had to wait it out or call a $40 Uber back to my house. I live near the West Island.”

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