Board of trade changes Guelph Transit’s grade on regional transit report card
Global News
The board of trade factored in on-time performance that wasn't included in original report card. That moves Guelph Transit from D+ to C+.
Students often lobby teachers or professors in order to convince them to give them a better grade on their work. Guelph Transit managed to accomplish that with the Toronto Region Board of Trade.
A report card from the board of trade graded 11 municipal and regional transit systems in the Greater Toronto Area. The report released last Wednesday gave Guelph Transit a D+. But general manager of Guelph Transit Robin Gerus felt the board of trade omitted something important that would have given a much better score.
“If we would have had our on-time performance included, it would have greatly increased our final rating,” said Gerus on Friday.
Gerus got in touch with someone at the Toronto Region Board of Trade that day. He was able to make them aware of the on-time performance and reliability factor.
“We were able to confirm … their reliability score of 88 per cent, which is one of the highest in the region,” Jennifer Van Der Valk, the board of trade’s V-P of communications and public affairs, told CJOY and Global News on Friday.
“We’ve adjusted the report card… and it brings them up to a C+.”
Van Der Valk did note that there were other areas that Guelph Transit needed to improve on and that was why the grade wasn’t as high. The report ranked Guelph high in base service coverage but noted that overall ridership declined due to a reduction in ridership since 2010.
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