r/OCTranspo

Is anyone else having this issue? I purchased a monthly pass via autorenew in June for July. But when I tap my card, rather than acknowledging I have a monthly pass till July 31, the machine shows that I have $23 in my account and I have paid $0.00 for my fare.

When I tap again within the transfer window, it shows a transfer and the time. On the website, it says fare payment $0 and the transfer window.

This would all be fine, however, I use STO to get home from work and I need to have a monthly pass loaded, so I can tape first on the STO bus and I don’t know if STO would acknowledge my monthly pass under these circumstances.

I phoned Presto and the person refused to acknowledge this was a problem saying I am not being charged so there is no issue. When I explained the STO concern they said that’s not their problem and they cannot help me. Eventually they said have a good day to force me off the phone.

Anyone else experiencing Schrödinger’s monthly pass? I don’t have it, so fare payment but I do have it so payment is $0.

As much as we complain about the service provided by OCTRANSPO, thank you for the free service on Canada Day.

Ottawa and Boston have North America’s busiest low-floor LRT lines and both run double trainset MU’s. Some 15 years ago, RTG proposed a CAF LRV similar to this one that was used in Europe, but the city rejected it because of insufficient experience. So RTG was forced to find an alternative which was a modified version of the Alstom Citadis. Boston is now replacing its LRV Green Line C trams with these.

Would it have been a better solution?

I was on the 67 Tunneys this morning 7:30am and the bus stopped at one of the stops between Pinecrest and Lincoln Fields to let people on. There are no stops there that the bus is set to stop at. This happened last month too where the bus stopped at two places between Pinecrest and Lincoln Fields. The bus stopping and opening the doors clear the stop request for Lincoln Fields. So I was just wondering, why are they stopping at stops that aren't for their bus to let people on who aren't waiting for that bus?

I would really appreciate if OC Transpo operators or employees can please assist me with there radio setup they have on there buses i would like to know how there setup is please reach out

Hurdman station eastbound platform is closed, to head east you must go to the west platform. I guess there's some kind of repairs needed between Lees and UOttawa, all trains are down to one track east and west bound. Every other train is east, the other is west.

Has anyone else seen OC Transpo routes in places they normally never go?
Over the years I’ve noticed a few strange things:
• I saw an 80 to Barrhaven Centre passing through Lincoln Fields, even though it doesn’t normally go there.
• I saw an 87 at Lincoln Fields, which also isn’t part of its normal route.
• I once saw a Route 7 with its destination sign still saying “Carleton,” but it was driving in the Richmond Road/Woodroffe Avenue area

Hey, this is a question for nighttime drivers or people who ride the bus late at night.

I occasionally commute from downtown to a suburb past midnight for either school or work… a few years ago I noticed a couple people asking the driver late if they could stop a bit early and one person in particular asked if the driver could let them off at the stoplight before the park and ride that happens to be my stop. For context, the light is at an intersection of a residential road and the transitway.

Ever since, if it’s past like 1 am, I’ll sometimes politely ask the driver if they might be able to let me off at the light so that I don’t have to walk through the park and ride to get home.

I really appreciate stopping early because it saves me time obviously, but it’s also a bit of a safety thing… as a twenty year old girl, a dark empty parking lot at 1am isn’t my idea of a good time. I’m never insistent because obviously I know I’m asking them for a favour, but frankly, after 1 the bus is never busy and usually they have to stop at the light anyway.

No driver has ever had a problem with my request, until tonight. It was around 1:30am and I asked the driver and he didn’t respond aside from shaking his head, but still let me off. But before I left, he said to me: “we’re really not supposed to do this…not that you care.”

Now, if he hadn’t stopped early I genuinely wouldn’t have blamed him, but this comment was pretty strange to me considering that I saw him stop early for two other people earlier that night. Maybe me being the third to ask was the thing that annoyed him? Three strikes you’re out? Idk.

This same night, a guy I had never met before started talking to me at Tunneys and got on the bus with me and spoke with me the entire ride, so I was actually more concerned with my safety than I usually am… which is why I asked to be let off early… but I can’t help but wonder if the driver had been overhearing our conversation and might’ve just made some assumptions about my character based on what I’d been saying to the guy. It’s more the “not that you care” comment that strikes me as odd.

All this to ask: how do you feel about asking the driver to stop early at night? Do you, as a nighttime driver, mind?

It is bound to happen when the shortages of articulate buses cutting into the majority rush hour scheduling issues. I'm wondering who came up with this idea in the past to allow this arrangements to happen without proper assessment.

has anyone heard of an update on when they at least plan to start testing?

Last fall OCT announced that starting in April, trains would come every 7 minutes during weekday midday periods. But just now I saw trains were every 10 minutes. They seem to have enough trains to run double now, so what is the holdup?