O-Train Numbers ‘Fluctuate’ … Like Accuracy

“Due to other ongoing maintenance requirements, the number of trains available for revenue service will continue to fluctuate.”

Press release from Troy Charter, Interim General Manager, Transit Services

So how many trains will be available for service next week?

Well it’s hard to say. The service will “fluctuate.” That’s a good word to muddy the waters about accuracy. This from the people who gave us that pre-O-Train service whopper of all time: “On-time and on-budget.” The rest is history.

So how many trains does the transit service have out there next week? Why a fluctuating number … which says nothing. Which is probably the point. Maybe the kind of fluctuating number is embarrassing to Charter, the city and OC Transpo. A little late for that now … the whole O-Train service is embarrassing. One of the few things that is true about our failed O-Train experiment is the high level of embarrassment.

The truth … city-hall style.

Perhaps embarrassment is fluctuating. Just like the anger of the citizenry of this community about the train. It fluctuates from high to really high, which is a more accurate assessment than the number of trains that will be available next week. Accuracy at Ottawa City Hall tends to fluctuate in lock-step with the amount of embarrassment.

All this after mayoral candidate and Kitchissippi councillor Jeff Leiper said in his newsletter that he and Mayor Mark Sutcliffe agreed that OC Transpo communications must be clearer.

Yeah… that’s the ticket. Clearer … yeah.

If service fluctuated as quickly as train numbers increased, why the whole thing would be “on-time and on-budget.”

Ken Gray

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