While other Canadian cities are solving major transport related problems like the threat of a strike in Toronto and the use of Tasers in Vancouver, Parliament Hill is setting a first in Canadian transport by introducing its first batch of female train and bus operators. Ontario now has two women drivers, Margaret Bicknell and Margaret Lafrance. OC Transport wants to add more by launching a recruitment campaign to attract more females and minorities to the company. But the transport firm has more luck getting visible minority applicants than women drivers, admitted Alain Mercier, director of transit services of the City of Ottawa.

Impatient passengers led to delays in rush hour subway traffic on Tuesday, causing a slowdown that lasted almost four hour. The delay began when a packed subway train had to stop for an hour due to a malfunctioning train ahead. The passengers got anxious in the heat and stuffy atmosphere and left the train.

A retired shipping consultant has offered a $20,000 reward for the return of the 17th-century Goffriller violin he left at the train station on January 29. Rob Napier said he didn't realize that he left the prized instrument - an original handiwork of Venetian master Matteo Goffriller dated 1698 - on the train's luggage rack until the train had actually rolled off the station.

A video ad for the rail line in Washington, D. C. that showed a bobble-head version of Pope Benedict XVI was pulled after religious officials complained that it depicted a "misdressed" pontiff. According to the Archdiocese of Washington, the bobble-headed pope, which was shown riding a Metro train, did not correctly depict the actual appearance of the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. "Our concern is that this was a bad bobble-head," said archdiocese spokeswoman Susan Gibbs, according to UPI.

An entire city's train traffic was brought to a stop Saturday by a rat that authorities discovered was stuck in a hotel signal box. Stockholm residents suffered a three-hour traffic delay, with officials primarily failing to find the source of the problem. Questions about the transit problem were answered when the police finally found the large rat inside the signal box at the basement of a local Sheraton Hotel.