HALIFAX – The president of the Amalgamated Transit Union is adding his voice to the chorus of people calling for the transit re-development plan to be put on hold.
Ken Wilson is pushing to pause the review to give councillors better data on better routes, schedules and passenger counts–something he has been saying for the past year.
“Now we have It’s More Than Buses and a few new councillors echoing my concerns back from a year ago,” Wilson tells NEWS 95.7. “It comes back to the same old thing. We have to look at turnout.”
He says you only have to look as far as transit’s own scheduling department to see why there are problems with the system.
“I started here in 1999 and I’ve seen the scheduling department morph to 20 people in total. It used to be 3. So, we have all of these scheduling experts now, but the product is no different on the road, and it’s ebcause the schedulers don’t use the buses.”