Driver burnout (and resignations) led to Halifax Transit chopping three bus routes and several trips. Also: A new electric bus gets a winter driving test in Halifax this week.
Passengers board a Halifax Transit bus in Dartmouth on Monday. - Tim KrochakAn option to increase transit fares hit a wall very quickly at the budget committee on Wednesday.– with an increase of $4.2 million from last year – was under the microscope. Staff suggested some options to trim the budget and one of them was to increase transit fares by 25 cents.
“In order for us to get over this hump, we have to endure a bit of this pain of reduced service,” Reage said. Assaults on passengers and drivers is a very real problem in HRM. Reage asked council for six new supervisor positions that would help, but council voted to send a request for four to the budget adjustment list for further debate later this month.
Transit has a contracted security guard and an HRP officer is there in the afternoons, but adding a supervisor with transit knowledge would help, he said, as a lot of the congestion results from people asking questions about what bus to catch. The supervisors would help move people along.
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