oc transpo

Canuckflack wonders why bus riders aren’t looking out the window along the Ottawa River Parkway: So why are all the mindless automatons blindly staring towards the front of the bus, their hands tightly gripping one of three things: their coffee, their briefcase, or the handrail on the seat in front of them? ...

Over on David Reevely’s Great Ottawa Blog, there are 38 nominations (and counting) for Ottawa’s worst OC Transpo bus route . ** A sample comment: ** I vote for the 2, because it represents the worst of public transportation: Unreliable: So late or early that it's common to see 2 together after waiting an hour. ...

From today’s edition of the City Journal, columnist Mark Bourrie rants about OC Transpo . A sample: ...Make the routes so complicated that, if you get on a bus on, say, Elgin Street, you’ll have no idea where you’ll end up. ...

This was posted today on Livejournal … details about a web application to show OC Transpo bus stop schedules on your mobile phone. Even cooler is that it was created by Remino , a regular bus rider – and is ...

OC Transpo buses are featured in an episode of “Mighty Machines” (Originally found at Livejournal ) ** Related: ** Ottawa Transit Guide

Time to clean out our bookmark file … here are some interesting web sites found over the past couple of weeks: * [ The Hornet's Sting ](http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/features/hornet/index.html) The Ottawa Citizen is running a series this week on parking tickets in Ottawa. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/2010-english1.jpg) Larry O’Brien’s transportation taskforce released their plan for a new light rail network in Ottawa. The plan is ambitious, covering a huge area in a relatively short timeframe. The plan is also a brilliant piece of marketing, full of big & small details to win over voters, not to mention inspire the imagination: ...

** Related: ** Ottawa Transit Guide

We just got this email from our city councillor Peggy Feltmate, about several bus cancellations over the next week: ** ** I just received the press release below stating that a number of bus trips are being cancelled tomorrow. ...

From the ELgiN StreEt iRReguLars blog: So it looks like Ottawa’s transit plan is about to be de-railed. Anyway, if it looks like Mayor Lex Luther and his posse are about to fully capitulate on the whole idea of public transit, I offer the following plan B’s for consideration. ...