Activate Transit Windsor Essex is a grassroots advocacy group working for a more accessible and sustainable transportation system in Windsor and Essex County
About us
We are building a coalition of community leaders, transit riders and public transit advocates. Our goal is to amplify the voices of community members calling for a transportation system that works for everyone
Community Mandate
In the fall of 2021, we engaged the community in an online survey to learn more about how people use public transit, what gaps and challenges they face with getting around the city, and what ideas they have for the future. 620 people, transit riders and non-transit riders alike from a broad diversity of backgrounds, participated in this survey. The results are summarized in an online dynamic report created by Ravel Insights. We look forward to the community drawing their own conclusions from these results. We present ours here.
In the News
Read articles and listen to interviews that ATWE has been involved in

The Dan MacDonald Show – Activate Transit Windsor Essex 2025 Budget
Josh Sankarlal of Activate Transit Windsor Essex speaks with Dan MacDonald about the City of Windsor 2025 Budget. Listen to the full interview here

Fate of Tunnel Bus, connecting Detroit, Windsor, up in air
A cross-border transit service that brings Canadians to Detroit and its sporting events and U.S. residents to the Windsor area might be discontinued. The Tunnel Bus, which is operated by Transit Windsor, could become a casualty of budget wrangling in Windsor. The Tunnel Bus operates on a one-hour schedule between […]

Residents take to council on tunnel bus, school transit ahead of 2025 budget deliberations
Windsor city councillors heard from the public on Monday, as many residents wrote into council or came to the meeting to speak to their thoughts, concerns and ideas for the 2025 city budget. Council will discuss the budget again on Jan. 27, but as the CBC’s Chris Ensing tells us, […]

Canada’s only international public transit service dominates Windsor’s 2025 budget talks
City council is being told to find a way to spend more money on Transit Windsor instead of a agreeing to a proposed service reduction. The topic dominated the city’s public delegation period focusing on the 2025 capital and operating budget. On Monday, Dilkens confirmed the item dealt with the […]