CPT has adopted an Operational Plan for its ongoing activity in the next year. It focuses on four core areas - Operations, Finance, Communications, and Community Relations. These will serve as the working foundations for our principal immediate goal - raising public awareness and vocal demand for public transit.

The Citizens for Public Transit Society held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on June 7, 2011. Attendance was excellent - 57 persons, including MLA Pam Birdsall, Mayors Downe, Publicover, Feeney and several Councillors. Aside from the usual administrative functions of an Annual General Meeting, most of the two-hour meeting was devoted to discussion-table exploration of the core areas described above. Many valuable ideas were contributed by the attendees and the civic representatives present were able to join in and hear at first hand the views of the citizens they represent. A summary of the table discussions can be read here

Prior to this AGM Citizens for Public Transit received excellent coverage in the local newspaper, the Bridgewater Progress-Bulletin. On May 31 the front-page headline article announced the AGM and described the objectives of the Society. On June 7 the editorial, entitled " Time to Get on the Bus", gave a huge boost to the cause.

July 2011