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JCL

JCL

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These stickers are appearing on a number of buses recently...

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What you are seeing is as a result of this report last November - http://www.ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/cityc...y%20Seating.htm

EDIT - There will be a media event for the Cooperative Seating - http://ottawa.ca/cgi-bin/pressco.pl?&E...848〈=en

Here's hoping the Upass gets voted down at both schools.

If a Student wants to ride the bus, let them buy their own pass - the rest of the students don't need to subsidize them.

I believe the referendum will pass. The student associations of both universities have been lobbying the City and OC Transpo for a long time for a U-Pass.

My understanding that other cities also have U-Pass program, where the tuition pays for a pass (whether you use it or not).

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Here's hoping the Upass gets voted down at both schools.

If a Student wants to ride the bus, let them buy their own pass - the rest of the students don't need to subsidize them.

I highly doubt that'll happen. I'm going to vote yes on the 11th, and I hope both schools will pass it. A huge number of Carleton and uOttawa students live off campus and use the bus to commute, so it would be a huge help. Carleton has been putting on a massive campaign to get the u-pass passed. I'm not sure about uOttawa, but I'm sure it's about the same.

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MCIBUS

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Here's hoping the Upass gets voted down at both schools.

If a Student wants to ride the bus, let them buy their own pass - the rest of the students don't need to subsidize them.

Are High School Passes stil subsidized? I know when I went to High school in the early 80's if you lived outside the school boundaires and went to that High School you got a fre bus pass?

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JCL

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Are High School Passes stil subsidized? I know when I went to High school in the early 80's if you lived outside the school boundaires and went to that High School you got a fre bus pass?

High school students will not be part of the U-Pass program, they will continue to purchase Student Passes instead.

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jlarocque2005

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The Cooperative seating campaign has begun

The sticker dipics a person offering there seat to a senior,Person with a guide dog ect ( Similar to what the stm has on there bus/metro ) also theres a long blue sticker that dipics the Eligible persons that may use the seating and the current bylaw number re Priority Seating.

i dont think theres a need to keep track of what buses that has the new sticker.

But for those who haven't seen it 6351 is the first artic i've seen the new stickers on.

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Centralsmt

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OC has pulled 48 artics off the road. They are likely 6351 to 6398.

Ottawa Citizen Ken Gray obtained an internal memo - http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitize...om-service.aspx

That would explain the 2 40" I saw on the 12 in the last half hour!!!

Does anyone else think that both the build of the buses suppled to OC and also the maintenance standards at OC are in serious need of investigation as soon as possible?

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JCL

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Does anyone else think that both the build of the buses suppled to OC and also the maintenance standards at OC are in serious need of investigation as soon as possible?

I know that the City has pursued legal action against New Flyer, but that I think that has been dropped as a result of New Flyer opening a servicing facility in the Ottawa area and have the buses fixed at no cost. (Source: http://www.ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/cityc...CS-TRA-0020.htm and http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive...9/17/c4377.html )

As for an investigation of OC Transpo, you'll probably hear more about this in the coming weeks. There are three motions by Councillors relating to OC Transpo that is to be debated on February 24.

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Centralsmt

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Hm... 6351-6398 again, first the bolts and now this... Hopefully I'll see more HFs during on the 95 during rush hour, the only ones I see to to baseline =/

I spotted 2 of the 6351-6398 batch in service downtown early this afternoon (dont have the numbers to hand).

The stroller issue is going to be discussed yet again. Here is a link to a Citizen article I stumbled across.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa/S...2658/story.html

MCMG

There is no way in an election year any councillor would be daft enough to support banning strollers from buses!

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C.Flat

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Not all of them were pulled from service, these were the units I saw today: 6352, 6357, 6359, 6372, 6386, 6387, 6390 and 6393.
On the TV advertisement screen at Hurdman it said that 35 were taken out of service. Adding to JCL's post, 6398 was out as well.

I saw 6361, 6351 as well

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