Poor OC Transpo Pushing People To Cars: JOHNSON

Published 12/08/2023 · Updated 06/10/2024

This is a post by Occasional Transport on Twitter featuring College Councillor Laine Johnson at budget meetings saying that poor transit service in Ottawa means young people are buying cars.

In a nutshell Johnson puts into perspective what bad transit means in very practical words.

Johnson could have added that good transit helps business a great deal in so many ways. The business angle might have got her a better reception from her right-wing peers on council:

Yesterday everyone had an opportunity to talk transit, squandered the opportunity, a few “gems” even took time to degrade transit.
But one, @laine_johnson1 said what needed to be said, and what I think is a fairly succinct comment on the state of the Transit. pic.twitter.com/WgLLjwkmmR
— Occasional Transport (@OccTranspo) December 7, 2023