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Tag Archives: OC Transpo
City Drops Some Buses On Light-Rail Detour
This is a release from the City of Ottawa. It’s doubtful this will placate opponents in the effected neighbourhood, nor should it. OC Transpo will reduce the number of buses operating along the Scott/Albert Transitway detour by up to 18% … Continue reading
Rail Crossing Politics: Bulldog On CFRA
CFRA’s Ron Corbett, filling in for Rob Snow on the Afternoon Edition, and Bulldog Ottawa’s Ken Gray discuss the political machinations concerning the rail level crossing at Fallowfield where six people were killed last September in an OC Transpo bus-train … Continue reading
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Tagged Fallowfield, Jim Watson, level crossing, OC Transpo, Ottawa, VIA Rail
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Game, Set, Match: Watson On Rail
If Mayor Jim Watson’s idea was to deflect attention away from the misdeeds of OC Transpo at the Fallowfield level crossing, he has certainly succeeded. Twice now foreign minister and Ottawa West-Nepean MP John Baird, the senior minister for eastern … Continue reading
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Tagged crash, Fallowfield signals, Jim Watson, OC Transpo, VIA Rail
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Bus Detour Issue Gets Participatory Democracy
What is nice about the issue of buses on the Slater-Albert corridor is that residents and city officials are now talking. You will remember this plan was passed in the big light-rail vote and was not found by most people.
Revenge Of The City Nerds
So our mayor Jim Watson is back on top of the Fallowfield signals question, again. You’ll remember that six people died there north of Barrhaven when an OC Transpo bus came into collision with a VIA Rail train last September. … Continue reading
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Tagged Fallowfield, Jim Watson, John Baird, level crossing, OC Transpo, VIA Rail
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Buses Run Red Lights, Video Claims
This is an internal email from OC Transpo chief John Manconi to a number of councillors and upper management: Subject: OC Transpo Bus Operations As you aware, today we are in receipt of an anonymous e-mail containing a video of … Continue reading
Watson Disputes VIA Signal Claim
This is a letter from Mayor Jim Watson:
Posted in Bulldog Ottawa
Tagged Fallowfield, Jim Watson, OC Transpo, Ottawa, signals, VIA Rail
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Watson Snatches Defeat From Jaws Of Victory
Oh Mayor Jim Watson won’t be happy with this. The Watsonator has been crowing about the faulty signals at level crossings on the VIA Rail line in south Ottawa. His Worship shifted the media and public focus from the four … Continue reading
VIA Blames Transpo For Rail Crossing Incidents
This is a release from Via Rail: On Friday, April 25th and again last evening, April 28th, at approximately 19:00, an OC Transpo bus approaching a VIA Rail crossing failed to stop at the stop line although lights were flashing, … Continue reading
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Tagged Fallowfield, level crossing, OC Transpo, Ottawa, VIA Rail
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Watson Can Declare Victory On Rail
If Mayor Jim Watson’s strategy was to deflect blame on irregularities at south Ottawa level crossings onto Via Rail, it worked. Watson was taking a PR beating recently when OC Transpo buses on four occasions ran flashing signals at the … Continue reading
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Tagged crash, Fallowfield, Jim Watson, OC Transpo, signals, VIA Rail
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Watson Wins PR War At Crash Site
Here’s how Mayor Jim Watson gets elected. His OC Transpo buses run signal lights four times at the site of the bus-train crash north of Barrhaven near Woodroffe Avenue. The Transportation Safety Board raps the knuckles of the City of … Continue reading
Move Fast On Bus Safety Changes
Change comes slowly at Ottawa City Hall: Six months after the tragic OC Transpo-Via Rail bus-train collision that claimed the lives of six Ottawans, significant safety measures come to the Woodroffe Avenue Transitway line at Fallowfield where the mishap occurred. … Continue reading
Cruel Tricks On Via Rail Line
It’s hard to believe that sick people live in our city who would vandalize train warning signals at level crossings in Ottawa. But that’s what is being considered as a possible cause of numerous train warning signal outages on the … Continue reading
Politics Hits A New Low At Crash Site
Two culprits are apparent in the continuing problems at the Woodroffe Avenue train crossing where six people died in a crash last year. The culprits: Via Rail and OC Transpo. Via Rail owns the crossing signals at the site which … Continue reading
OC Transpo Should Pay The Price: McGuire
This is a comment from mayoral candidate Mike McGuire on the post, It’s Not The Error, It’s The Coverup: Here’s what a mature organization would do if this were revealed: 1) There would be an apology to shareholders and customers … Continue reading
Making Women Safe On Transit
The Atlantic Cities looks at one of the great problems of public transit, keeping women safe. Women who aren’t bound to the bus by economic necessity cite reliability and convenience as reasons they choose to stick with their cars.
It’s Not The Error, It’s The Coverup
The point of the controversy surrounding brake flaws on OC Transpo’s double-decker buses is not that the malfunction was minor, as the Transportation Safety Board says, but that the public was not voluntarily informed of the problem by the City … Continue reading
Reader To Dump OC Transpo
This Bulldog reader minces no words on Twitter about OC Transpo service:
Bulldog OC Transpo Poll Results
OC Transpo might have missed the readership of The Bulldog when it was doing its customer satisfaction survey which overwhelmingly supported the bus service. Bulldog readers feel overwhelmingly otherwise. Here are some comments:
Are You Happy With OC Transpo? Vote
The Bulldog is conducting its own survey on OC Transpo customer satisfaction. — This week a poll commissioned by OC Transpo said 80 per cent of telephone poll respondents said the transit service was good or very good. So now … Continue reading
OC Transpo Claims Customer Support
This is a release from the City of Ottawa: OC Transpo today released the results of its 2013 Customer Survey. Overall satisfaction for transit customers is at 80%, the highest level in five years. Here’s more detail of what the … Continue reading
