Hamilton Posts Bid Documents for New HSR Bus Barn
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Hamilton’s public transit agency wants to move into the 430,000-sq.ft. 200 bus facility in Q4 2024.
HSR May Decrease Service as Driver Absences Increase: Memo
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If HSR is short of bus operators due to COVID, summer levels of service, with “extras”, may be implemented as a temporary measure, similar to March 2020.
Hamilton Street Railway Wants Metrolinx to Extend Dundas Street BRT to McMaster University
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In an email, the HSR’s senior transit planner writes “Maybe Metrolinx could get moving on their Dundas Street BRT (which desired extension to Mac) sooner, rather than later?”
City Allocates $3.3-Million in HSR Transit “Quick Win” Funds to “CF Limeridge Master Plan redevelopment”
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And other HSR budget line updates, including renaming the HSR MacNab Terminal.
Hamilton’s New Transit Director is London Ontario’s School Bus CAO
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Maureen Cosyn Heath is currently the CAO of Southwestern Ontario Student Transportation Services, transportation consortium for the London District Catholic School Board and the Thames Valley District School Board. SOSTS oversees school busing for approximately 50,000 students with an annual budget of approximately $68-million.
New Provincial COVID Funds for HSR Will Keep Transit Running Well into 2022
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Queen’s Park announces $16,822,206 in new funds for HSR, bringing HSR’s 2021 COVID funding to $22,108,640.
TPR does the math to show this will keep HSR running well into late 2022.
Debbie Dalle Vedove, Transit Trailblazer, Announces Retirement as HSR Director
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With a mastery of operations, strategy, and politics, Dalle Vedove laid a strong foundation for better transit in Hamilton and re-railed the HSR while facing the glass cliff of the 2017 Transit Crisis.
UPDATE: City Hall Reinstates HSR Bus Operators Following Public Outcry
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Following the publication of the story, the City and Union representing the operators met and reached an agreement to reinstate them.
City Terminates Two Immune Compromised HSR Bus Operators Who Are Not Able To Work During COVID
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Immune compromised bus operators sought safe alternative work such as contract tracing, the City is steadfast in its decision to terminate them. The Union is going to fight the terminations at arbitration.
Proposed HSR Transit Capital Spending for 2021 Indicates Transit Will Restore Post-COVID
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The proposed 2021 capital spend for Hamilton’s public transit agency, the Hamilton Street Railway, is $192,892,000. Of this, around 75 percent, $140,208,000 is being funded by other levels of government.