Rewards & Recognition Fall 2018
Teamwork Award
The Overhead Team (Streetcar Maintenance and Infrastructure)
Vincent Balfour
Overhead Linesperson
Peter Benerowski
Overhead Linesperson
Sean Bryce
Overhead Linesperson
Milan Novakovic
Overhead Linesperson
Clancy Friel
Apprentice Overhead Linesperson
Thomas Reilly
Apprentice Overhead Linesperson
- Overhead Crew 304 was at an intersection waiting to make a left turn onto South Kingsway. A dump truck travelling eastbound made a right turn in full view of the crew and struck a woman crossing, then stopped on top of her. The driver then backed up and ran over her again, tearing her leg open. The driver then fled the scene.
- Two crew members jumped out of the truck and started to perform first aid with radio communication to the two other crew members who followed the dump truck. One of the members held the woman’s artery by hand to stop the bleeding until emergency services arrived.
- The dump truck turned again and Crew 301, located just down the road, noticed and started following as well. Together the two crews were able to block the truck when the driver tried to make a three-point turn. When the assailant jumped out of the truck and began to run, members of the team chased him, leading to the apprehension and arrest of the individual.
The King Street Pilot Team (Strategy and Service Planning | Streetcar Transportation)
Conor Adami
Procedures and System Development Senior Planner
Curtis Batuszkin
Transit Stops Supervisor
Darrin Brown
Senior Transportation Planning Technician
Hani Chahine
Roncesvalles Division Assistant Manager
Jacqueline Darwood
Strategy and Service Planning Head
Pranav Dave
Operations Planning Chief Engineer
Francesco Di Noto
Senior Schedule Writer – RT
Narayan Donaldson
Operations Planner
Mark Eskandar
Transportation Planning Technician
Ron Gambin
Transit Scheduling Manager
Tim Lawson
Senior Transportation Engineer
Franco Longo
Senior Schedule Writer – RT
Laurence Lui
Russell Division Assistant Manager
Tim McCallum
Technical Co-ordinator
Albert Oliver
Streetcar Transportation Head
Trevor Pitman
Senior Transportation Engineer
Kevin Shen
Technical Support and Development Supervisor
Jim Sinikas
Transportation Engineering Director
Alexander Takarabe
Database Technician – SMS Project
Erin Wemyss
Russell Division Manager
- The King Street Pilot Team accomplished this ground-breaking project, which required inter-departmental and external co-ordination. The project led to enhanced service delivery, new initiatives and tools for performance monitoring, successful transit stop relocations and delivery of effective ridership counts.
- The implementation of the project was achieved through the tenacity of the team to work well with all stakeholders, who collaborated with politicians and business leaders to open up dialogue and implement the project under short timelines, despite public scrutiny. The impact of the project has contributed to faster and more reliable service, increased ridership and improved customer satisfaction.
- The successful implementation of this project has resulted in significant, measurable improvements to both business and work processes, overall increased efficiencies and elevated levels of safety. The team has provided a basis for future pilots and has set the stage to make transit across the city faster, more attractive and more reliable.