Business View Magazine | March 2020

147 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 HAL I FAX TRANS I T shares. “The federal government has a real interest in the electrification of transit fleets, so we’re going to be setting up that project office with an eye towards having our first electric buses on the road within three years. But it is a pretty big effort to get that done, so rather than having people doing that on the sides of their desks, the thought is to set up this project office and have dedicated staff working to make it happen.” Meanwhile, Reage says that upping on-time performance for its current fleet has been an ongoing concern. “In the last few years, we dove in, head first, with regards to transit priority and we could ever be. It’s what they do and they do it well, so everybody wins in a situation like that. As long as you have the technology and we have the GTFS-based automatic vehicle locations system that pushes that out, then, certainly, any app can get that information out there.” Reage is also focused on upgrading Halifax Transit’s conventional bus fleet. A recent proposal to the Halifax Regional Council concerns the creation of a Fleet Transformation Project Office. “That’s going to be looking at how we get away from our fleet being powered by diesel, and go, predominantly, to electrification and, potentially, to other fuel sources,” Reage