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Half the region’s suburban train lines saw fewer riders in 2015, according to data released Monday.

Statistics provided by the Agence métropolitaine de transport to the Montreal Gazette show the Deux-Montagnes, Vaudreuil-Hudson and St-Hilaire lines all saw a dip in ridership in 2015. Excluding the Mascouche Line, which only began operations on Dec. 1 2014, the AMT’s ridership dipped by one per cent in 2015 compared with the previous year.

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The year 2015 was marked by a frigid winter, which took toll a on train reliability, with breakdowns delaying or cancelling trains with greater frequency than normal. There was also a one-day strike on Feb. 16, which cancelled train service for more than 30,000 daily riders on the Vaudreuil-Hudson, Candiac and St-Jérôme Lines.

But extreme events aside, a worrying trend appears to be taking hold. It was the third consecutive year that the agency’s two most-used lines — Deux-Montagnes and Vaudreuil-Hudson — saw a decline. There were 179,100 fewer people taking the Deux-Montagnes line in 2015, a 2.3-per-cent decrease, while the Vaudreuil-Hudson line lost 73,700 riders, for a two-per-cent decline. Vaudreuil-Hudson, which generally has the AMT’s lowest reliability rate has now seen ridership take a hit in five out of the last seven years.