Loud-Invero

I hear OC Transpo and the city is broke and strapping for cash... I have an idea, station special constables on Scott street (Ottawa River Parkway at Dominion station) and let them issue fines to inpatient drivers who attempt to bypass the ORP backups by using the Transitway. Doubt queue jumpers won't go 30 km/h on the bridge or stop at the stop sign either, so hey, more tickets. I could see decent money being made off of fines from HTA offences alone at that station.

Couldn't help notice that there was a lot of down buses today? On my way home from Carleton Place, I spotted an artic (signed as 62 Tunney's) and Invero pulled over with an OPP cruiser and OC supervisor on the 417E near Moodie. On my way back home from my work depot I saw another artic broken down on Richmond road (near QCH), again, with another supervisor on site and lastly I spotted another broken down Arctic on the transitway just after Lincoln field station heading towards queensway, with a supervisor present (spotted while entering the Ottawa River Parkway). All this within an hour after 5 PM. Never thought I'd spot so many break downs in so little time

On that note, how does the XE40 handle in heavy snow/ice? I assume there is software to reduce the torque in slippery conditions, but I'm curious to hear from a drivers POV on how well it handles snow storms/icy conditions.

Not at all. They do have better traction control systems though than the Inveros being 15 years newer. Though in my experience, the older, more experienced drivers can drive those Inveros in heavy snow/low traction with little issues. Alas, my comment made in jest was taken too seriously by some, which hey, what can you do about it...

The NovaBus's are good in snow. Unfortunately, they don't do so well on ice...

OC also tested a 40 ft EV Nova variety awhile back as well, mocking a Route 131 run in Orleans. @JCL managed to get a nice video of it being tested on his YT channel

Not surprised by this. According to the Facebook group, eastern Ontario transit heritage, drivers already reported that they were doing their April bookings and had no route changes, indirectly implying line 2 was not going to be open on time. Obviously it's going to be key to pay attention to the June bookings which should start rolling out (IIRC) mid-late April. If drivers report changes to south end routes, chances are the train will be operating by or before the June service changes

Is it me, or has the quality of drivers just done down since the recruitment requirements have been relaxed quite a bit? This morning, was waiting at Colonnade at Merivale, trying to turn left. When pulling up, couldn't help notice that despite there being 3 SIGNS saying no right turns on red () the driver of 4503 on the 83 (I assume Baseline) at 7:27 AM coming from Merivale garage did it anyways. Regardless of your opinion on rights on red or whether the driver could safely do it, it's the principle: Sign/law says no, yet you do it anyways. And if it's not purposeful, then why is a driver with perceptual blindness driving a bus? Even on the parkway at night, I've noticed *a few* bus drivers who will use their high beams, but fail to lower them in the face of oncoming traffic. I would have to return the favour for them to finally lower it (if they even lower them at all) but again, I shouldn't have to do that in the first place... If you look YouTube for "cancerman88" he has a BUNCH of other OC bus driver failing horribly - rolling stops, not merging properly, can't keep their lane, etc. I'm just concerned these drivers are going to kill someone one day because of their negligence and inattentiveness. Am I the only who feels this way?

35 non-frontline employees at OC Transpo were fired today. https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/oc-transpo-reduces-workforce-as-revenues-stagnate-post-pandemic-1.6758132

I was taking the bus the other day as my car was in the shop, but I couldn't help notice there was a new infobox circulating. It has a picture of a person, looks like a bus driver? Couldn't read it or anything as I only noticed it while riding the bus, but I assume it's a recruiting poster? It was on Route 11 between Tunney's and Woodroffe when I saw, forgot where though... Was just curious to see if anyone else has seen it and if they have a photo?

It should be noted, If I'm not mistaken, 80% of the 91 trips weren't new bus trips when they first came out, but rather former 95X Baseline/Downtown/Blair trips. There were also some routes like the 82/84 that extended from Baseline as the 91 Laurier (which previously were 95 Downtown/Blair trips). Same applies to the old 92 Stittsville/St. Laurent. They just replaced Route 96A trips and didn't actually add more bus trips.

Here's a digitized infobox map for Route 95 in September 1987. Huge thanks to Nick Hauser for providing the photo from his collection and giving me premission to digitze it for me to share with you all. Enjoy! (also, if anyone can inform me on what the correct fonts used for the "effective date" and the "95" on the top, as seen on Facebook, I'd appreciate the help to find that font name) Route 95 1987.pdf

Probably just me not paying attention, but it has come to my attention that Happy Goat at Rideau has closed down... Anyone know when they closed? I honestly don't even remember when they opened as well. If anyone has either answer, that would be appreciated!

Excellent documentation. If possible, are there any resources us wiki editors can refer to so we can have a general source of the information we can cite, or are these dates/units coming out of your memory? Why am I not surprised these Orion IIIs only had a 6 year lifespan...

Honestly I hope they ditch Presto. Let's remember that for the longest of time they had no innovation whatsoever and no adaptation to modern tech until I was already too late. To this day there is still no Apple pay or Google/Samsung Wallet support to add your Presto card. It's **2023**, like come on!