Recent content by Transit Apologist

This is correct, and you can see it in the way feeder bus routes are currently structured. Thirteen different routes (14, 36, 41, 43, 75, 92, 96, 147, 148, 149, 150, 153, MAX Teal) currently connect residential & industrial areas on the SE Green Line corridor to the Red Line. It is most likely...

"Perfectly fine" is a stretch: https://stevemunro.ca/2026/02/24/line-6-finch-west-delays-january-2026-update/ The Line 6 LRV's have been having semi-frequent mechanical-related delays of various forms. (However, Alstom is definitely not the only one at fault for Ottawa's woes; the entire...

The 28 runs through the neighbourhood in the other direction with a stop featuring a 400 metre walk to Canyon Meadows, plus carrying on to Beaverbrook for high school students. Truthfully the prior form of the 83 has pathetically low ridership anyway, so at least the new service is more...

Honestly pretty happy with these changes. Good to see several MAX precursors (the 503 and 507) and a proposal for service to Tsuu T’ina Costco. The new routes seem a lot more connective than what exists currently (especially in the south with 2 new Fish Creek crossings). Also looks like many of...

I believe they usually put those signs at bus stops near on-street parking, in an attempt to prevent cars from parking too close to the stop and blocking buses from pulling in & out. That one in particular could be very old since it's the legacy design (from before CT redid their signage to the...

I still feel that A is better for the north-central transit network in the long run, as long as extensions to North Pointe & 160 Ave come soon after. I'm not convinced that a Nose Creek line relieves the bus corridor in any substantial way whatsoever, because it's still so far from all the main...

With regards to the north line, I wouldn’t neglect the fact that route 3 (Centre Street local bus) is consistently the busiest route in the city, with the 301/MAX Green not far behind. Very few routes come anywhere near the numbers they pull - or the number of buses they use per day. Last I...

That particular car trap was strange, because it was there since the 90's, but even before West LRT no bus ever used it.

I believe the frequency decreases on several routes this signup (including the 2) are just schedule padding for slower travel times (winter road conditions). Adding 3 minutes to the midday headway wouldn't be enough to take any buses off the route. It would definitely be nice if CT would...

To be fair it's equal to or better than the service levels the 30, 106 and 449 ran separately, and it fills in some gaps/missing connections in that part of the system.

The system CT has implemented has reliable readers that are adaptable to pretty much every payment option we'd ever need. I think starting with an ultimately well-working app and saving fare cards & credit for future incremental improvements is perfectly reasonable. Would users on this forum be...

Not necessarily through the middle per se, but it would cut off the south side of the property. See the city's diagram below:

The planned extension of 50 Avenue SE would cut through the property anyway, so the motocross track would likely be closed regardless of whether or not a new garage was built. Transit has been winding down operations at Victoria Park since before Covid IIRC. Between the green line and the...

ETS did buy a few of our retired U2's to use for parts several years back, so they must still have some mechanical similarities.

Brentwood is a much busier destination, because of the university ridership (already proven by route 9). If the Teal were extended north you could shorten the 9 to end at Westbrook, because local service north of the river is already covered by routes 90 and 104. Moving NW routing from the 9 to...