Skylar Franke is currently serving her first term as Councillor for Ward 11, and serves on the boards of the Middlesex London Health Unit, Upper Thames Conservation Authority, various council committees and finally as the Chair of the London Transit Commission. That's why she's joining the podcast today. London Transit has had some ups and downs over the past year or so. In fact, 3 council appointed LTC commissioners resigned a while back and council made the decision to remove the remaining commisioners and populated the entire leadership board with members of City Council. Fun Fact, Councillor Franke voted against removing the remaining commissioners, but after the motion passed she put her name forward to join the commission with 6 council colleagues and ultimately she was elected as chair. During this podcast We talk about the governance decisions, the funding shortfall and the challenges LTC faces to meet the needs of our community. And, we can't talk transit without talking BRT - Councillor Franke will give us an update about that too. Including what she thinks needs to happen for the North and West routes that were cancelled during the 2018 - 2022 council. She outlines the plans and the challenge London faces to secure funding. That's because when those routes were cancelled a several years ago, the funding from other levels of government that had been secured in 2018 was cancelled too. Thanks for listening.