ottbike
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General discussion thread on service, issues, plans, etc.
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From last weeks transit committee. Also sounds like we'll get vending machines in six stations. Didn't mention what type of products or which stations.
Sometime in the last I think year, they had a slide on fleet purchase schedule. I really want to find that again.
Sometime in the last I think year, they had a slide on fleet purchase schedule. I really want to find that again.
sm4012
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Cool to see the residential growth mapped like that, really goes to show the densification in the core areas, especially where the western expansion is set to open.
Also been really cool to see more and more electric busses hit the street, I remember when they first started showing up it felt like seeing a unicorn but now they're one of the most common.
Also been really cool to see more and more electric busses hit the street, I remember when they first started showing up it felt like seeing a unicorn but now they're one of the most common.
Just wanted to throw this in here from a Transit committee a few months ago.
casscadia
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It is great that they're adding more electric buses but they seem to be replacing over 200 longer articulated buses with the shorter electric ones, without any other increase in capacity to offset it. This is yet another way that OCtranspo has been slowly choking its capacity over the past few decades, I'm pretty sure I saw a graph of the number of buses over time compared to population, and if we stayed at the same ratio of buses per population as 2010 we'd have over a thousand now, not 700 with increasingly smaller buses....
We had over a thousand buses around 2010. The idea was that with the rail expansion, we would need fewer buses and bus drivers, but the constant issues and delays opening extensions has been hurting us. Bad planning all around.