Here is a response from the Coalition regarding the City’s latest release on the state of its financial  affairs.  

The matter of photo red lights/speeding tickets is now concluded. In 2018, the Union undertook to challenge the City for its practice of making members pay red light & speeding tickets and then issuing progressive discipline. The City challenged this practice through 3 grievance levels and into arbitration, then had to defend the Arbitrator’s award…

ATU has kept up the fight to achieve civilized order and eliminate violence on the Transit system. We’ve done it through lobbying, through persistent media response, television interviews, the armband “WE Deserve to be Safe” campaign and more. During the second week of September, we take our campaign up another notch, as we launch our…

Next Tuesday, ETS Administration will deliver 3 reports to City Council’s Urban Planning Committee. The first deals with Transit Service levels and the need to ramp it up. You can read the report here: Transit Service Options The second deals with youth after school service Here: Bus Service For Youth The third deals with developer-funded…

On Wednesday, Steve Bradshaw and Jerry Gill met with Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and MPs Heather McPherson and Blake DesJarlais. Discussions centered on the high need for Ottawa to step into the difficult problem of disorder on our Transit Systems. We also spoke about the need for federal operational funding for transit systems nation…

Late Friday afternoon, Transit Fleet Maintenance’s Director Derek Hanson contacted us with great news: they’ve finally tracked down the problem with the retro-fit air conditioning. This very serious problem will likely affect all of the retro-fit units (not the 7000s), so it’s great that they’ve got to the bottom of it now. It appears that…