Brampton Transit will once again be wishing riders a Merry Christmas after deciding to pull all holiday messages three years ago.

General manager of Brampton Transit, Alex Milojovik, told council at its Dec. 12 meeting the transit agency would begin placing “Merry Christmas” window signs again starting this holiday season.

“We have started the ball rolling, so to speak. We’re looking at opportunities to potentially do some type of signage on the side window with a sleeve that we can change from whatever community celebratory events we want to celebrate and display,” he said.

Following a service review in December 2015, city staff made the decision to end the practice of displaying holiday messages on its buses, with the exception of Remembrance Day.

Wards 2 and 6 Coun. Michael Palleschi raised the issue at the meeting after he said he had received calls and correspondence from constituents asking why Brampton Transit doesn’t display holiday message, while other neighbouring municipal transit agencies do.

Milojovik explained that due to accessibility concerns, holiday messaging couldn’t be displayed on the scrolling destination and service signs on each city bus, but window signage was doable.

“I think that some of the correspondence we’ve seen was that other municipalities have ‘Merry Christmas’ on transit, and we like to celebrate the different faith celebrations in Brampton throughout the year. I think it’s only appropriate that we try to look at ways to accommodate that request in some fashion,” said Mayor Patrick Brown.