You won't believe what's happening to our bus routes
Good morning from the border — where Canada meets America and neither one blinks. This is Windsor.
Okay, so I just saw something that's got me scratching my head, like when you see a new restaurant pop up on Erie Street and wonder if it's *really* authentic Italian. Transit Windsor says their ridership is down, right? But then they drop this little detail that adults taking the bus is actually *up*. So, what's the deal, eh? Turns out, our federal government putting the brakes on international student numbers is hitting us right here, on this side of the river. It's wild to think that a decision made up in Ottawa changes how many busses we see rolling down Ouellette Avenue, or how full they are passing through Sandwich Town.
It just goes to show you, everything is connected in this city. We feel it so much more because we’re right here at the edge, a hub. The auto plants, the students coming to UWindsor, the folks crossing the Ambassador Bridge for work or for a Detroit Tigers game – it all flows through us. You think of Windsor as this industrial heart, always running three shifts at Stellantis, but then something like this happens and you see how much a global policy shift can impact our local rhythms, our daily commute down Wyandotte. C'est fou, non? It reminds you that our economic heartbeat isn't just about cars, it's about people, about all the comings and goings through this border city.
Marco out. My compadres on the morning show are always talking about stuff like this — tune in live at mornings.live.