Recently the provincial government of Ontario announced that they want municipal transit agencies to look into replacing "low performing" fixed routes with private microtransit services. This garnered a surge of responses from transit advocates and sparked numerous discussions about outsourcing municipal transit.  

Pantonium hosted a discussion between three transit agencies from around North America to discuss different models of transit privatization, from the fully owned municipal transit model to the fully outsourced transit service, and everything in between.  

Learning Objectives:  

How can transit agencies operate sustainably alongside new political and economic realities 

In different circumstances, how can on-demand service be used to support all types of transit

Guests:

Michael Mousley, Manager of Transit, City of Stratford 

Joel Gardner, Executive Director, Ozark Regional Transit 

Ettore Iannacito, Transit Service Manager, St. Albert Transit