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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 Windsor and Detroit and costs…
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, transit was one of the…
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 potential elimination of Windsor’s tunnel…
Transit group disappointed with proposed budget
A local transit advocacy group is calling for more investments for Transit Windsor after the mayor tabled the 2025 budget. While the budget outlines service improvements like increased route frequency they come at the expense of other service cuts, mainly the elimination of school extra buses. The budget also highlights a $1.4 million service reduction,…
Activate Transit Windsor Essex respond to proposed service cuts
Josh Sankarlal, from Activate Transit Windsor-Essex, joins Meg to talk about the proposed cuts to Transit Windsor in the city’s 2025 budget. Listen to the full segment here
Ridership revenue for Windsor Transit’s cross-border tunnel bus is $566K in the hole
Transit Windsor is facing a revenue deficit of more than half a million dollars this financial quarter — and diminishing usage of the tunnel bus is being cited as a major reason. Nate Hope, a founding member of the citizen advocacy group Activate Transit Windsor Essex, feels the tunnel bus should be preserved — even if…
Transit advocacy groups from across Canada calling upon federal government to increase funding
Transit advocacy groups from across the country are joining forces for Transit Action Week, calling upon the federal government to increase funding through the Canada Public Transit Fund. Transit advocacy groups from across the country are joining forces for Transit Action Week, calling upon the federal government to increase funding through the Canada Public Transit…
New transit advocacy group in Windsor hopes to drive change
CBC Windsor – November 4, 2021 “A new group that wants to see better public transit in Windsor wants to know what people think of the service right now. Activate Transit Windsor Essex formally launched Wednesday with a survey. Group members were out on buses and at the terminals encouraging transit users to fill out the questionnaire, though…
Riding the Magic Bus with Julian and Jessica
Rose City Politics Podcast – November 3, 2021 A jam-packed, supersized show this week as Jon and Doug are joined by Julian Villafuerte and Jessica Bondy of Activate Transit Windsor-Essex to talk about their new initiative. This show also features an interview with Ward 3 Councillor Rino Bortolin on the changes coming to Riverside Drive…