Flalex72

This is very common, and known as a "Bathtub Curve" as if you plot the reliability over time, it will be high at the start as kinks are worked out, flat in the middle and then increasing at the end as things wear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve

Tunney's has a small one on Scott immediately in front of the station. At Pimisi, there isn't a great spot to put one due to roadway constraints on the bridge.

Monthly passes are still needed to support those who transfer to STO as PRESTO E-Purse and by extension fare capping does not work for trips starting on STO.

I passed one heading EB on 417 in Arnprior Saturday night.

It lost the Pride wrap, but the OC logo on the front still has the pride flag pattern.

I found at least one heated shelter at every station I stopped at, and they're by far the best heaters of any shelter on the OC Transpo system. You feel like a rotisserie chicken inside.

At some point in 2022, the Orion badge was removed from the front of it.

4024 is outside Pinecrest, you can see it from Connaught or on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.3566406,-75.7810285,94m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

There was an orange X3-45 stopped at the Bayshore Mall stop in Ottawa this morning with an MTO enforcement SUV behind it. Bus had no markings on the drivers side that I noticed, but it looked like Book-a-Ride.

They're an Ontario Crown corp, and there are no buses built in Ontario so why would they care? They better serve their "shareholders" by buying the most reasonably priced vehicle.

This is actually a function of width - at 80", the CHML is no longer required but the clearance and marker lights are. The ProMaster is 80.3" wide, most large pickups and vans are in the 79.8-79.9" width for this reason. At 86.3 inches wide, this is why the Ford Raptor has marker lights on the grill and clearance lights on the fenders, and though it maintains the CHML it would not be required.

The multiple minibus contracts are interesting - the 6x 6m minibuses are shorter than current paratranspo buses, so I would guess they are trying a TTC style Ram ProMaster.

It's LIDAR: https://www.molinarisensors.com/ There's usually different responses depending on the detection, platform screen sensors are most likely going to trigger a speed reduction/operator alert.

Yes, I didn't catch a fleet number but it was the classic Santa Bus invero setup.

OC uses the DL2 and DL2 narrow.