Issues and Projects
- Contracting out Transit Bus Operations
- Parking Fines in Toronto
- Automated driver license status notification system for bus drivers
- Trip inspection
- Hours of Service Rules
- Industry Growth
- Fuel Tax rebate
- Climate change: Global Warming
- Travel Industry Act
- Travel Industry Council of Ontario
- Table Top Tour Operators
- Border Crossing Delays / Issues
- Emergency exits- (Public Vehicles Act)
- Public Vehicles Act amendments
- MTO CVOR Modernization Project
- MTO Facility Audit Modernization Project
- Bus fire prevention
- Wheel maintenance
- MTO roadside bus inspection program
- Research on future tour demands
- On-board telematic devices
- On-board Electronic recorders
- Driver Simulators
- Group buying
- Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Periodic Inspection Standards
- Increase the number of passengers on motor coach tours and coaches
- Increase awareness with the public and government decision makers
- Bring unlicenced/unsafe carriers or individuals into compliance or stop them from operating
- Create more classes of driver licenses and endorsements.
- Inform bus operators of tax and registration issues that affect multi-jurisdictional fleets
- Promote competitive private sector services as they are less costly and more efficient than those operated by government in a monopolistic environment
- Promote bus ways, coach corridors and bus only lanes as superior to expensive rail projects
