Montreal transit service will “resume gradually” Wednesday as a strike by unionized maintenance workers has ended.

The Montreal Transit Corporation said in a news release late Tuesday service would begin as of 6:15 a.m. Wednesday.

An agreement has yet to be reached, but talks are ongoing, STM CEO Marie-Claude Léonard said in a statement.

A strike by the transit agency’s 2,400 maintenance workers – the third so far this year – began on the evening of Oct. 31 and was scheduled to last until Nov. 28, limiting bus and subway service in Montreal to peak hours and late evenings.

Meanwhile, the union representing the agency’s 4,500 bus drivers and subway operators has planned a two-day strike this weekend, following a one-day strike on Nov. 1 that halted all service.

The maintenance workers’

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