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That what I was alluding to. Can't spend on a single penny extra to celebrate 50 years...

My only problem is it will be thoroughly curated by many parts of the OC/city bureaucracy where they will oversimplify and dumb down what they are actually telling the people to avoid pointing fingers at the root cause of many problems which is the politicians letting OC die and dry out. Imagine a blog post trying to explain why they are removing 120ish buses from service indefinitely if the draft budget passes, and why their Saturday night Route 82 will only operate hourly after 8:00 p.m as a result... They're not gonna say "due to councils budget cuts on Transit, _____". Just look on OC Transpos website if it's still up. They just have a general post about getting to budget consultations when curiously, they mention absolutely nothing about what the budget means for OC transit itself, which in the context of it being a Transit website, I think it needs to communicate the sense of attention needed and why they should attend it, but alas, the budget is just bona fide BS for OC and "politics isn't allowed", so they'll post the most bland info they can about consultations and will just end up taking the beating from the public when the cuts come in, while the council gets off scott free because their electorate was promised a 25:1 investment on car dependent infrastructure versus Transit, walking, cycling, etc because Municipal Council has convinced them that you must have a car to do anything.

It's not the agency. It's the politicians - Thou shalt not be named...

The 50th anniversary was August 2022. They did nothing.

"Circuits" is coming back after being discontinued officially since 2000 (but abandoned in May 1998). They call it "The Next Stop Blog" but it's just gonna be another modern day Circuits newspaper.

Took the bus for the first time in months after dropping my car at the shop. I'd forgotten how expensive fares are. Almost $4! Jeez, no wonder I don't use the bus often. Car dependency cost just as much as monthly bus fare.

Line 1 Routes: 1 O-Train Date effective: February 10, 2023 Line 1: R1 bus service implemented/running between St-Laurent and Rideau due to OCS issue. No trains between St-Laurent and Rideau. Trains operating Blair—Tremblay and Tunney's Pasture—Rideau. Updates to follow.

I can say I have done that before. I wanted to go to Dollarama but Nepean is car dependent, so It would be over an hour just to get the the closest one at Baseline/Sandcastle. I've opted to just go to the Dollarama at St. Laurent Mall. Way out of my way, but it takes the same time of travel, but at least this way I can choose multiple routes at Tunney's to get home. Of course, that was before I was forced to become car dependent...

Calypso has apparently opened a water slide at Rideau Station, with added firearm sound effects... On time and on budget... ?

It says after demo, they're installing westbound shelters and given how long the demo is supposed to take place, I assume it's both platforms.

6360 side swept (take a guess...) a BMW. Looks like the BMW was using the slip lane and didn't yield to the bus. Baseline/Merivale Plaza, bus was running as 88 Hurdman.

I don't see why they'd cancel the 62. They replaced D96 trips in 2015 and no way in hell would those in Tanger Outlets and those near the CTC would like to be isolated and confined to Kanata with the 162, which doesn't run on weekends anymore for a very good reason.

I'm hearing some buzzing going around on Reddit. Apparently Mark is threatening to cut the OC Transpo budget which suprise suprise, will mean cuts coming in the near future. Who couldn't have seen this coming...

They didn't even have straps on the train overhead grab on bars for about a year. You're asking for more than they can give.

New route changes that will take effect January 30th, 2023. OC is feeling some Sept 2004 nostalgia and needs to make changes a month after the original changes. Route 40: All-day service reinstated on Tapiola Crescent. Route 40 will no longer bypass Tapiola Crescent to continue straight on Johnston Road during off-peak hours. All trips will operate via Tapiola Crescent and service the bus stops along the street. Customers will no longer need to walk to Johnston Road to board the bus during off-peak. Routes 11, 51, 153: With construction complete at Lincoln Fields Shopping Centre, Routes 11, 51, and 153 will be permanently adjusted to use the mall's new East-West roadway from Croydon Avenue. Route 699: Routing will be adjusted to continue on Kelly Farm Drive to Bradwell Way. This change reduces walking distances for students east of Kelly Farm Drive, between Bradwell Way and Findlay Creek Drive.

Are they really still banking on 2026 for full Line 1/3 expansion? West end is a year behind. They should wait until the lines open, that way they don't have to replace the majority of them.

IMO those areas won't mature at all, at least not to the point where these developments would opt for Transit. Look at Blakestone or even Barrhaven. Barrhaven has been around since the 70s and it's still the same car centric low density suburban hell hole it was in the 1970s. OC screwed up by NOT having transit before the developments are built. 167 was a limited route and when people moved into Blackstone, they opted for cars because of the poor service by OC, they couldn't get anywhere, now despite having the 67 which offers more service, it's too late. People are now car dependent there, hence ridership is low. I will admit, it's a Gamble to offer service too early. An example is in 2000 when OC extended the 135 (now 35) to serve the new developments South of Innes near Tenth Line and ended near "Nantes", which was a loop. Ridership was quite decent based on the hours of operation as more people moved in and had convenient transit to take to nearby businesses, of course, came the 2004 cuts were for 3 years, the 135 would replace a portion of the routing of the 136s routing, losing some connections in the Fallingbrook area while taking longer. The real big killer in ridership was the 2009 and 2011 cuts. They basically was the 135 death blow that would see it die in ridership and hours of operation. Now, as you guessed, they're now car dependent developments. Point in this? Having a new routes that serves Tunney's from Briddlewood that runs at all times is just a bandaid solution to the real gaping wound that is underfunded transit where you're waiting ONE HOUR for ONE ROUTE to get to Eagleson to transfer east from Briddlewood on weekends. We need to start with the basics before we can consider another routes that will further strain the already underfunded service.

Wi-Fi is up and free to use at Pimisi Station. https://www.octranspo.com/en/news/article/free-wi-fi-is-now-available-at-pimisi-station/

LOL ZEDs mean ___ all if it's just the driver in the bus 60% of the time. How about the government of Canada incentivizes provinces to help in providing operational funding for Transit... They keep building infrastructure but no one's using it because it's not convenient and is built/bought the cheapest it can be even if that includes sacrificing quality or reliability.

76 and 269

Their current numbering scheme will fall apart once stage 2 is done. Routes above 100 that currently serve Line 1 LRT. 114, 153, 164, 185, 190 and 199 After Stage 2 (total): 111, 114, 131, 138, 139, 153, 154, 155, 158, 164, 173, 185, 186, 187 and 199

Aha! I knew it. In September 2004 OC transport tried a new paper type to print their schedules on. They decide to use salmon coloured paper. Not sure how long they used it for but this explains why I saw such a colour on schedules from photos in the past. https://web.archive.org/web/20040811115104/http://octranspo.com/What's New/SignsOfChange_menuE.htm

Just makes more sense IMO. Those are basically old Route 167 trips that ran between Terrace Matthew and Lincoln. Since it serves LRT, it should be its own distinct route number. I said it should be Route 67, but obviously now that's a no-go. Same reason why the 88 Prince of Wales should actually be "188 Prince of Wales" so that way people don't get confused between the rare trips vs the common local service expected of the 88/164

Pretty interesting even for 1998, they got an infobox map that predates 1993, kinda looks like this.

I mean even under Mark, I think we can get the 173 to travel Bayshore via Greenbank and Richmond instead of through DuMaurier. Why Jimbo decided to run the 172 and 173 parallel after Greenbank/Banner the whole way to Bayshore is beyond me, but there's certainly room for improvement that can be done with the confines of "tackling that OC debt".