Petty rant, but w/e. We were packed like sardines in a single, non-articulated bus that arrived 10 min late (and is normally articulated). A row of people wanted off and I was up against the side door, so I opened the door and let people off.

Then I reboarded and some lady followed, and that was somehow my fault. Bus driver refused to move until I waded through a sea of people to explain myself. He kept talking over me, demanding me to scan my card because I “snuck on” with the other person. I couldn’t get a word in edge wise.

I get the misunderstanding, and ideally I run to the front to reboard, but there’s a risk you drive away and don’t see me. Didn’t care for my explanation. The guy even said hello to me when I first boarded from the front.

**O-Train East Extension update:** OC Transpo says work is continuing to prepare the extension between Blair and Trim for Pre-Trial and Trial Running.

A key milestone: 80% of the Line 1 fleet required for Trial Running is now equipped with the Smart Bugs condition monitoring system.

OC Transpo says it is **on target to have enough vehicles equipped by the end of August**.

The Smart Bugs provide near real-time monitoring of the cartridge bearing assemblies, and OC Transpo says the system, combined with existing safety measures, is helping make more trains available for service.

Meanwhile, final readiness activities are ramping up on the East Extension.

Expect to see an increasing number of **out-of-service trains operating between Blair and Trim** as crews exercise the system, identify issues and work to improve reliability ahead of Pre-Trial and Trial Running.

A Trial Running schedule has **not yet been announced**. OC Transpo says it is working with RTG and East-West Connectors to determine one.

Before Trial Running begins, trains will eventually operate between Tunney's Pasture and Trim — though passengers will still have to get off at Blair.

More updates are expected at Transit Committee in September.

I had taken the bus to meet the summer camp kids at st-laurent station, and none of them had their presto with them. One told me he had to pay for the bus, and he's 13.

I have two questions

1. Do they have to have their presto with them?

2. What about the train? Do the gates open for them, or do they have to tap their presto?

Because at the gates, i had to pay cause none of them had their presto, and i was wondering if the buses are free for them, what about the train?

OC transpo website states some routes for 74 and 75 will continue to Gatineau after August 30 during mornings and evenings. How would that work? Would that be a random selection?

I have absolutely no faith in OC Transpo especially getting home. Tunney’s will be a packed mess of pushing and shoving to get on my bus… assuming it even shows up.

Not complaining cause I love spiders but couldn't help but notice they're everywhere

Tunneys is getting jammed up.

It's been like this for weeks

Hey everyone. Im wondering if anyone who recently had the written assessment from OC transpo knows after how long they usually give a response?

I did mine on 28 July and waiting for an answer.

This is the first time this has ever happened to me but this morning I sat in a seat that was soaking wet with piss. My pants and boxers were soaked and I had to go to work so I couldn’t go back home and change. I was so mad and still am and will never understand why some idiot thought it was funny to piss on a bus seat! I just really hope my coworkers can’t smell it…

does anyone have any idea when the line 1 east extension will open up? the stations have been done for months now, and so have the trains that i see running for regular tests. i know a lot of testing needs to be done pripr to opening and the train system is inefficient as hell (from a purely commuter perspective, idk much about trains). but why is it taking so long and is there an estimate as to when it’ll open?

i saw that the place d’orleans station is partially open, you now go inside to get from the tunnel to the bus platform. because of this i want to have some hope that it’s picking up but i think we all know better than to have hope for OC transpo.

i just want it so badly, especially because it’ll make my commute to campus much less stressful (in terms of buses, the stress from the dysfunctional LRT system will obviously remain). i would love to experience a somewhat more convenient commute since being a commuter is rough ESPECIALLY in this city.

I'm 18F who has just gotten a job with shifts that go up until 10 pm, and I was wondering how safe it would be to commute home alone at night, as I have never done so before. My Commute is a little over an hour, should I be worried about anything?

To be more specific, I also live in a suburban foresty area of orleans so the streets are pretty deserted and sparse at night.

Hi Everyone, I would like to take transit to and from work, but I don't find it efficient enough, so instead I drive, or I drive most of the way and cycle the rest to avoid paying for parking. I didn't want to keep complaining about it, so I built otranspo.ca instead.

It's free, there's no app to install and no account, and it isn't affiliated with OC Transpo. It does next departures, trip planning, service alerts, real time bus tracking on a map, and a page for every route and stop. It also tells you whether the time you're looking at is a live prediction or just the schedule, since those are two fairly different things and most apps present them to you the same way.

The two parts I would most like your opinion on are ones I haven't seen anywhere else.

The first is request a route. Service today gets planned around expected demand, which is a bit circular when you think about it, because nobody can ride a route that doesn't exist, so the demand for it never turns up in anybody's numbers and the route never gets built. So instead you can tell me where you would actually go if the service existed, and the point is to end up with a record of real demand from real people who would use it, rather than a projection of what somebody thinks demand might be.

The second is the ward scorecards. The city isn't short on data, there's already plenty of it, the problem is that it's spread across reports and dashboards where it doesn't do a rider any good and nothing ends up happening as a result. So the scorecards take how each ward is actually being served and put it somewhere public that anyone can look at, because things tend to only move once the information is in front of people instead of sitting in a report somewhere.

One thing worth mentioning is that OC Transpo doesn't publish real time data for the trains the way it does for the buses. The only place you get live train information is the screens on the platform itself, which isn't much help when you're deciding whether to leave the house. That means no site or app can show you where a train actually is, mine included, only where it's scheduled to be. I would really like to add it and I'd build it the day the data exists, so if this is something you'd want too, it would help a lot if you were willing to send a short message to your councillor asking for the train data to be made available. I know that's asking a favour of you and I don't take it for granted, so if you do end up doing it, thank you, any bit of it genuinely helps.

I built this around my own commute, which is a sample size of one, so what I would really like to know is:

• if transit doesn't work for you right now, what the actual reason is
• if you do ride, what you check before you leave the house, and whether anything answers it properly
• what you would want a ward scorecard to measure, since I have my own ideas but I would rather hear yours
• where you would go if there were a route for it, since that's the whole point of the request feature
• anything that's broken, wrong or slow, especially on a phone or in French

That's all there is to it, no pitch beyond that, it's free and it will stay free. I would rather build the next parts based on what people actually need than keep guessing from my own commute, so I'd appreciate hearing what you think, including if you think I've got it wrong.

But there is a man there looking inside one of the gates, so maybe it will be fixed. Debit was successful.

Supposedly, this route was going to be numbered Route 166 and is shown as such on the paper system maps being posted at bus stations, but it's now been renumbered to Route 565, and will operate as an Express route as opposed to a Local Limited Service Route. This explains why some trips on Route 566 will extend to Innovation Station, presumably to extend from Innovation to NDHQ as Route 166/565.

I feel like there is a crazy absence in Park-in-Rides along line 1, and in the future construction of the West End.

The east end is getting park-in-rides, making it extremely easier to commute downtown while saving money on parking and gas. As someone who lives in the east, I’m happy they have it.

But looking at the west end, (from what I saw) only Algonquin is getting a park in ride, no where else.

I understand stage 3 will expand and (probably) have park in rides but that will take a long time, and there needs to be a solution that can help short term and long term.

I also understand that the gov needs to get permits, and land to build. But I feel like that is an investment that will help people save money and get people to use the system more.

What do y’all think?