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Tag Archives: OC Transpo
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
Transit In Trouble: Bulldog On CFRA
CFRA’s Rob Snow and The Bulldog’s Ken Gray examine the failed light-rail tunnel at Waller Street and how both Via Rail and OC Transpo can’t make the Fallowfield rail crossing safe despite the fact that six people were killed there … Continue reading
Posted in Bulldog Ottawa
Tagged bus-train crash, light rail, OC Transpo, Ottawa, Via Rail. Fallowfield
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Who’s The Knee-Jerk Now?
Shortly after the Via Rail-OC Transpo bus crash that claimed six lives north of Barrhaven, the Citizen’s Kelly Egan and The Bulldog both came out the same day wondering why the City of Ottawa had not immediately taken safety measures … Continue reading
Posted in Bulldog Ottawa
Tagged bus, crash, Jim Watson, OC Transpo, Ottawa, Train, VIA Rail
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Staff Wants Bylaw Change After Bus Crash
This is a memo from deputy city manager Steve Kanellakos concerning measures taken and anticipated at the City of Ottawa in light of the OC Transpo-Via Rail crash near Fallowfield station that claimed six people’s lives last September. Click on … Continue reading
Fallowfield Rail Crossing Signals Out
This is a release from the City of Ottawa concerning problems at the Fallowfield rail crossing where six people were killed last year in an OC Transpo-Via Rail bus-train crash occurred: The VIA Rail railway signals at Fallowfield between Greenbank … Continue reading
Posted in Bulldog Ottawa
Tagged bus, crash, Fallowfield, OC Transpo, Train, VIA Rail, Woodroffe Avenue
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Get The Bus-Train Crossing Right
The scene after the tragic bus-train collision at Woodroffe Avenue north of Barrhaven. — Something is wrong with the Via Rail level crossing at Woodroffe Avenue just north of Barrhaven. Obviously the alarm bells went off when six people were … Continue reading
Posted in Bulldog Ottawa
Tagged bus, deaths, news, OC Transpo, Train, VIA Rail, Woodroffe Avenue crossing
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O-Train Shuttered On Sunday
This is a release from the City of Ottawa: O-Train service will be suspended for only one day from Sunday, January 19 at 12:30 a.m. to Monday, January 20 at 5:30 a.m., in order to connect new underground signal cables … Continue reading
Get OC Transpo Safety Right
Keeping our transit system safe isn’t about how many special constables Calgary or Edmonton has. It’s about how many we need. Does Ottawa require more constables because this city has more transit users? Or do more transit users mean more … Continue reading
Posted in Bulldog Ottawa
Tagged Bulldog Ottawa, bus, OC Transpo, Ottawa, safety, transit stations
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