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“People can’t trust the system to get them to places they need to be on time,” Horner stated, “and because of that, more and more people are opting to drive.”
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“Running and funding a transit network that people can trust isn’t rocket science,” Horner said. “We did it for decades.”
OC Transpo is one of the worst jokes in North America.
Anyone who has lived in ottawa that I’ve met around the world instantly bonds with me when I bring up OC.
“Does it still suck?”, “I remember waiting for x hours for the 95”, “You mean to tell me they stopped the direct service from Barrhaven centre to downtown and now you have to take a train?”, and “what do you mean the train wheels aren’t circular?”
Many such cases.
I remember when I liked OC Transpo: regular buses, the TransitWay, and putting the schedule on shelters. It got me around town fairly reliably.
But they managed to screw up light rail. I would have thought trains with dedicated tracks would be a guaranteed win, but no...
It's one of those things where, it it was do e right, the system would work fine.
They have managed to fumble it so badly that the easiest solution for the cities traffic problems have been made worse by it instead.
It shouldn't take me an hour to go down the parkway.