The summer break took a break as the Accessibility Advisory Committee got together for their bi-monthly meeting. On this agenda were some appropriately well-timed topics about wayfinding signage, upgrades to an area park, and renovations coming to the Guelph Civic Museum. Don’t let the time of year fool you because this meeting had some very serious conversations. Here’s the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: The AAC Points the Way on Wayfinding and Signage”
Not everyone is getting August off. The Accessibility Advisory Committee will take a break from the summer break to have their bi-monthly meeting and tackle several different topics around local accessibility concerns. This August we’ve got changes to parks, changes to the Civic Museum, and improving the ways you can find your way around town. All that and more on this agenda for the AAC! Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Accessibility Advisory Committee for August 20, 2024”
By the end of the summer, 11 total EV buses will be on the road in Guelph. That was one of the revelations from this month’s Transit Advisory Committee. That was good news, and it was good news to hear that mobility services will soon be given a much needed review, but where there is good news, there must also be bad news. September service expansion will be delayed because of the mayor’s request for budget cuts. Let’s get into all the news with this month’s recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Mayor’s Memo to Have Impact on Transit Plans for Fall, TAC Hears”
Time to catch the bus, or rather the committee that advises about the buses. The April agenda for the Transit Advisory Committee looks suspiciously like the March agenda, but with one additional item. Once again, TAC will look at chimes, and ridership concerns, and general updates, but they will also hear about a proverbial meeting of local transit minds. So let’s dig into the details as we look forward to next week’s meeting. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Transit Advisory Committee Meeting for April 18, 2024”
Do you not hear the chimes at midnight? Well, technically it’s the chimes at 5:30 pm, but really you might end up hearing them any time you’re on a Guelph Transit bus. A new chime for special alerts and announcements was the biggest order of new business on the agenda at this month’s Transit Advisory Committee, and if you scan the recap below you will learn how many more of those buses pictured above you will see on Guelph roads soon! Continue reading “RECAP: The Transit Advisory Committee Chimes in About a Chime”
This month transit is coming around again for March’s meeting of the Transit Advisory Committee. And what advice will be sought from the committee this month? There will be the usual items about electrification, general transit news, and insights from the board and other users, plus there will be an item about chimes and messages that is still mysterious, but at least it’s something different. Let’s check out the agenda… Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Transit Advisory Committee Meeting for March 21, 2024”
The first Accessibility Advisory Committee meeting of the year was packed! Even more packed than usual. Good thing then that one of the things discussed was the use of consent agenda items to try and streamline things, but the biggest thing on this agenda, the item that was bound to be the most contentious and controversial, ended up having to be postponed when the committee ran out time. So how did it all shake out? Here’s the recap!! Continue reading “RECAP: Accessibility Committee Has to Punt Election Decision Due to Packed Agenda”
This month’s Transit Advisory Committee meeting wasn’t focused so much on the functioning of transit as it was focused on the function of the committee itself. The special guest this month was Dylan McMahon from the clerks’ office who led the committee through a familiar exercise to determine where they fall in the new framework for Advisory Committees of Council. So let’s dive into the recap for this one… Continue reading “RECAP: Transit Advisory Committee Takes a Look at Itself This Month”
No time for love the day after Valentine’s Day because the Transit Advisory Committee has to get down to business. The agenda is deceptively light, because one of the items will require TAC to take a good, long look at itself. The clerks’ office is coming to this meeting to look at how TAC might fit into the grand scheme of things so far as the future of advisory committees go, and there’s also matters of rider feedback and general updates to discuss. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Transit Advisory Committee Meeting for February 15, 2024”
This week council took a couple of tough meetings. On Tuesday, there was a question about homelessness downtown, but the controversial motion proposed by Mayor Cam Guthrie had been pulled. Still, there’s was a matter of funding for Royal City Mission and their daytime shelter services, council had to decided how and if they were going to fund that further. And on Wednesday, it was the big one: The passage of the 2024-2027 multiyear budget! Continue reading “This Week at Council: Royal City Mission Saved (For Now) and The Budget”
