Transit Commission

Minutes

Meeting #:
08
Date:
Time:
-
Location:
Champlain Room, 110 Laurier Avenue West, and by electronic participation
Present:
  • Chair Glen Gower, 
  • Vice-Chair Cathy Curry, 
  • Councillor Riley Brockington, 
  • Councillor Marty Carr, 
  • Councillor David Hill, 
  • Councillor Jeff Leiper, 
  • Councillor Wilson Lo, 
  • Councillor Shawn Menard, 
  • and Councillor Tim Tierney 

Notices and meeting information are attached to the agenda and minutes, including: availability of simultaneous interpretation and accessibility accommodations; in camera meeting procedures; information items not subject to discussion; personal information disclaimer for correspondents and public speakers; notices regarding minutes; and hybrid participation details.


Accessible formats and communication supports are available, upon request.


Except where otherwise indicated, reports requiring Council consideration will be presented to Council on Wednesday, October 25, 2023 in Transit Commission Report 8.


The deadline to register by phone to speak, or submit written comments or visual presentations is 4 pm on Wednesday, October 11, 2023, and the deadline to register to speak by email is 8:30 am on Thursday, October 12, 2023.

No Declarations of Interest were filed.

Renée Amilcar, General Manager, Transit Services Department, Olivia McGuinty, Program Manager, Transit Employee Management Support, Raouia Howarth, Manager, Transit Technology and Innovation, Paul Treboutat, Chief Safety Officer, and Troy Charter, Director, Transit Service Delivery and Rail Operations, provided a verbal update and answered questions from the Commission.  A copy of their slide presentation is filed with the Office of the City Clerk.

James Greer, Director, Transit Bus Operations and Maintenance, and Matthew Wolstenholme, Manager, Service Planning also answered questions from Commission.

Sally Thomas and Patrick Shepherd spoke before the Commission on this item. There were no written submissions on this item.

File No. ACS2023-TSD-ENG-0020 – City-wide

Renée Amilcar, General Manager, Transit Services Department, and Richard Holder, Director, Engineering Services presented an overview of the report and answered questions from the Commission.

The following stakeholders also provided a presentation to Commission and/or answered questions:

  • Rideau Transit Group: Nicolas Truchon, Chief Executive Officer
  • Rideau Transit Maintenance: Enrique Martínez Asensio, General Manager, and James Messel, Director, Technical Services
  • Alstom: David Van der Wee, Vice-President, Head of Rolling Stock, Sebastien Geraud, Director, Canada TMS Country Cluster, and Jeff Gaffney, Director, Maintenance Solutions

A copy of the slide presentations are filed with the Office of the City Clerk.

There were no public submissions on this item.

  • Report recommendation(s)

    That the Transit Commission receive this report for information.

    Received

File No. ACS2023-TSD-ENG-0021 – City-wide

Renée Amilcar, General Manager, Transit Services Department, and Richard Holder, Director, Engineering Services presented an overview of the report and answered questions from the Commission.  A copy of the slide presentation is filed with the Office of the City Clerk.

Enrique Martínez Asensio, General Manager, and James Messel, Director, Technical Services of Rideau Transit Maintenance, also answered questions from Commission.

There were no public submissions on this item.

  • Report recommendation(s)

    That the Transit Commission receive this report for information.

    Received

File No. ACS2023-TSD-SCER-0019 – City-wide

Lisa Bishop-Spencer, Director, Strategic Communications and External Relations, and Justin Hoppner, Senior Project Manager, Transit Marketing, presented an overview of the report and answered questions from the Commission.  A copy of the slide presentation is filed with the Office of the City Clerk. Renée Amilcar, General Manager, Transit Services Department, also answered questions from Commission. There were no public submissions on this item.

  • Report recommendation(s)

    That the Transit Commission receive this report for information.

    Received

There were no in camera items.

There were no Inquiries.

There was no other business.

Next Meeting: November 14, 2023.

The meeting adjourned at 3:23 pm.