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News Roundup

Some of this has already been discussed above, but these articles clarify and/or flesh things our a bit more.

Calgary Transit planning ‘complete restyling’ of its website



Calgary Transit is looking to give its website a complete overhaul, making information more easily accessible on mobile devices and updating the overall look and feel of its online presence.


The redesign “will require a complete visual restyling, functional enhancements and the addition of new web technologies and capabilities,” according to a request for proposals the city recently posted.


Transit spokesperson Stephen Tauro said Monday the goal is create “a simple site where information is up-to-date, reliable and a little bit more 2013.”


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http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/771...f-its-website/

Calgary Transit director will clean up vomit during Undercover Boss Canada episode

Cleaning vomit off a bus, working in fume-filled garages and helping calm customer tensions along the LRT line was all in a week’s work for one of Calgary Transit’s top officials this past spring.


It was revealed Monday that transit director Doug Morgan will star in an episode of Undercover Boss Canada Oct. 31.


For 10 days of filming in May, Morgan shed his “trademark” goatee and donned a disguise that fooled the handful of employees he toiled away with during graveyard maintenance and security shifts.

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http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/770...anada-episode/

New Chinook LRT station to open in ‘early September,’ Calgary Transit clarifies

After nearly eight months of reconstruction, the Chinook LRT station will open in “early September” but not necessarily on Sept. 2, as previously indicated on social media, Calgary Transit clarified Wednesday.


“We’re working on the exact opening date and we’ll release that later this week or early next week,” project engineer Chris Knobel told Metro. “It’s safe to say it’ll be early September.”


Knobel said “it was a mistake” when a tweet was sent out late Tuesday from Calgary Transit’s official Twitter account, saying the much-anticipated station re-opening would happen Sept. 2 at noon.

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http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/773...sit-clarifies/