“I’m very tired,” said Alain Okou Monday morning at Outremont métro station.

Having finished his shift at 5:30 a.m., he had been waiting for close to an hour for the first métro of the morning, delayed to 6:30 a.m. because of the STM maintenance workers’ strike.

Okou said public transit is his only option to get from his LaSalle home to his job as a cleaner.

He said the strike had made him late for his overnight shift Sunday, which began ahead of the 11 p.m. resumption of métro service.

Monday is Day 3 of a planned four-week STM maintenance workers’ strike, which is set to bring transit to a standstill throughout most of November outside three daily service periods.

Okou said he was “unsettled” at the prospect of four weeks of disruption.

Outside the station, Linda waited for the fir

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