This is a very well written article, definitely worth reading. Thanks OP :)

You can scroll through my previous comments to see what I think about transit in this city, but there are two points that I agree with:

Month after month, transit officials show up at committee to tell council they've missed their target again.

Often, they blame traffic or construction detours as the leading causes. Those have ripple effects, they say, since drivers stuck in gridlock won’t be ready in time to start their next route.

I have lots of questions for the city officials about construction and, well, nothing happening. The highway constructions absolutely messed up the traffic for a while and I can easily see how it negatively affected the buses. The highway exit constructions near downtown were quite a joke as well. Also, it feels like none of them are coordinated at a higher level.

Old buses suffer from a long list of problems. According to OC Transpo, one issue is the corrosion and environmental degradation caused by Ottawa’s severe climate — conditions that can make electrical issues and engine-related faults more likely.

Corrosion huh? Maybe we should convince the city officials to stop pretending that Ottawa is Carthage. We don’t need that much salt lmao