Media Stories About Us & Transit in Windsor-Essex

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

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 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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]