Bill Kelly Show

Ambulances, high speed rail and road safety.

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Hamilton Paramedic Service is raising alarm that hospital overcrowding is causing too few ambulances to be out on the road responding to emergencies. The recommended time frame to have patients on ambulances handed off to hospitals is thirty minutes, however they say they regularly wait for longer than two hours. Guest: Mario Posteraro, President, OPSEU Local 256. It’s expected that Kathleen Wynne will announce today her government’s intention to build a high speed rail line connecting Windsor to Toronto, and several communities in between. The trains are expected to travel anywhere between 250 and 300 km/h, with the project coming at a cost in the neighborhood of $20 billion. Guest: Richard Brennen, Retired Journalist with the Toronto Star. It is Canada Road Safety Week, which aims to bring awareness to habits plaguing driver safety, such as distracted driving, speeding, tail gating, not wearing seat belts, etc. This, comes on the lead up to the long weekend, which typically coming with a heavier police