Now that's some public art.

This is a tried and true Canadian tactic, Im afraid. Nothing for it.

Unrelated note. I've been looking for this flag for like 2 years. I swear male blindness is a true thing. You can't see stuff right in front of you 😂

@helps.octranspo.com We really need to have a chat about your lying arrival times. People are waiting 20+ minutes for a bus that's going to be there any minute now. Just wait a minute longer... And another... Another two... Oh this minute for sure! *Ha gotcha!* It's now two more minutes away!

Politics is a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. #MakeOttawaBoringAgain search.app/F3mfN

I mean, okay, it's not that hard to perform security via cameras - but automating surveillance is an effective step. The risk is laziness, if you expect a machine to capture all the events, then people gaming the machine, will go undetected.

Morning #Ottawa bonjour good W8514 2085 618151920 8119 315135 920 919 209135 61518 20211811525.

Lol this is real 😂

Weather update: light/very light rain starting overnight, peaking at 6:00 a.m. then starting again 4pm-8pm with light/moderate at 6ish.

Bust out the WhatsApp chats. Another shady deal.

A councilor spoke of the OC State of the Transit being a major impact event, forcing the Mayor and others to really reflect on how to act about transit I don't know if the counselor misspoke or OC had a similar display. Either way let's pretend it was ours! 2022 was simpler days -> t.co/EVMrHPSM7P

Your empire is about to collapse when you start targeting your distinguished military personnel because they asked people to follow the law. Clearing out this current US government can't come soon enough. Children, parasites, grifters and bullies. share.google/r0RWxqPc6zE3...

They know what they need to say, but they just don't want to do it, that and many are not basing their choices on the guidelines. Plus it sounds like we are still paying huge chunks of money to the LRT 1? It seems that P3 didn't protect us as it was supposed to. So great negative investment ♥️

Transit riders the pay the transit levy Transit riders keeping the system running So why are we treating our core customers like second class citizens? Roads, sewers, power lines, sprawl - none of these generate revenue But transit does So why do we demand transit to pay for itself? #Ottawa

Reminder: 99% of your transit problems are OC management and rubber stamping council. Please don't bitch out the driver - unless they are being an ass 😁 #Ottawa

Hersh is good at delegating, going for the throat nearly every time has everyone zooming out. GottaGoCampaign glossing over the problem with public toilets. The issue is not building them. It's that they get bombed out. No one wants to maintain them.

I make this augment a lot. You can travel to another city quicker then it is to get across 38km's within the city. A daily round trip, is the equivalency of driving to montreal.

Rural #Ottawa is 80% of the land, but only 10% of the population.

This current delegate is upset that it's not equitable that low density rural has to pay $11 versus high density transit in the urban paying $4. Cool. Well they can pay their Levy, and pay for increased Transit and then they can have $4.

@jleiper.bsky.social asks "do you think that this council takes transit seriously?" I'm sure they are trying, but it's been almost 6 years and we are having the near exact same conversations. So. What, another 6 years? Then we will get it? Keep throwing pasta till it sticks?

David points out that OC says fares are not a repelling force for people using transit - reliability ranks higher. Yes, but all evidence points to free transit inducing demand. But of course, even hot garbage served free... Is little to no value to nobody.

Plante roughly saying 'everyone's in the same boat with Transit having trouble' and that she couldn't find any cities that are successfully recovering. 15 second Google. globalnews.ca/news/9477981...

Yeeeep. Less creative accounting. More free transit. We should never be squeezing blood out of poverty. Upwards mobility is absolutely critical, to fight off urban decay.

🎶 You better lose yourself in the music The moment, you own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo 🎶

We're still at 82% of pre-pandemic. Which means as the city has grown, we are actually still losing modal share. But of course OC Transpo spinning this as some type of miracle event. God this is painful.

These presentations are always presented as "Hey Boss, look at what we did for you" with a lot of smoke to the posterior. Constantly reiterating big numbers and how great and awesome we keep doing things. You could cut these presentations down 40% taking out the fluff and puff.

- Electro buses are going to take till 2027 - 540-520 is our operational need - We have 734 buses - We need 744 buses - By 2027 we will transition out our rust buckets - 50 new buses by end of year

A near monthly reminder fair compliance is not why transits in the shitter or "not hitting our ridership numbers" #Ottawa Also a lot of questions that should have been a emails years ago.

#Ottawa businesses don't like it when their patrons get charged, because that shocks them into not returning. So, perhaps your patrons should follow bylaws? Or better yet, let's stop impeding the pedestrianization of the market. Then nobody, but that roving nudist, gets tickets! #Byward

Enhancements like: - slowing down the train - removing 3.5% of bus service - removing routes - slowing down bus frequency - gaslighting us daily with BS

Why should I consider the uploading of the #OTrain network from #Ottawa to #Ontario a good idea in *any* way? #transit #question

Morning #Ottawa Good Bonjour!

It's interesting to see ideas that I flushed out in my youth, and in this case, the exact name and branding 😂 - turn into multi-million dollar companies. The real difference from idea, to cash, is just finding your clients. Which is much easier in the deregulated US share.google/EehPzLWRRnlEAdTlg

Tell the city you're bringing 300 people, and multiple thousands come in tour buses. Awesome. Let's not be this city that hunts fun constantly shits on it, the city can handle inconveniences, we need to inspire bigger and better and bolder. But yeah - don't be lying on your paperwork 😂

It's interesting to see the same conversations about AI that people had about photographs, surveillance, moving pictures, any form of record keeping, databases, computers and digitalization. I wonder what the next boogeyman is going to be after AI?

For a city that has no dimes to spare, it'll be interesting to see how they do this. I bet a lot of this is going to be putting people in houses that are already underway - the mayor's just setting up the win, but the efforts, are already done. Either way, 90M/y and "homelessness ends" today.

Just another way OC looks out for its ridership. We make the process so long, so tedious, and to top it all off, we're going to charge you twice for our incompetence. #Ottawa

Anything OC transpo does is "hefty price". It's the knee jerk response to any forward progress. Meanwhile, they'll do the most union labor-intensive work - like not automating the trains. But regardless, we need to be marching towards free Transit. Not playing with price juggling schemes.

Taking ideas for a #Autowa (bad #Ottawa drivers) website. What would be the most interesting content for you? Biggest violators? Locations? Sheer audacity? I know the Facebook groups that handle the endless car crashes that are popular. Wouldn't know how to source that though.

This is like when #OttCity promoted ppl coming DT or to Market with free parking but cost of transit remains the same. If we want to incentivize behaviour and be true to our words and aspirations we need to rethink our approaches.

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Good Better Morning #Ottawa

Snow may start still at 7, but it's been mostly pushed back till 9am. The tail end is also moved up to around 3pm with flakes till 6.

Weather update for tomorrow #Ottawa Snow/rain coming in at 8am ish - and ending sometime before 6pm. Becoming slightly heavier around 1 to 3pm.

> Defending Human rights now violates human rights Human rights/Human dignity are non-negotiable. People died for them, spilled blood for them, and if need be, we'll do it again. Get fked with this religious zealotry.

And yet we’re expecting that traffic will flow smoothly when the new arena and stadium are holding events simultaneously at Lansdowne 2.0, as per the project’s rationale.

Cars Cars as far as the eye can see. We could replace pretty much every vehicle in this picture with two more buses.

It’s absolute car f*ckery on Bank Street (Christmas Market and Santa Claus parade (along QED) convergence at Landsdowne)

> Deadly SARS-like virus epicenter > Let's go camping right beside it > Oops, I'm dead #DiedSuddenly #Mystery

There’s not even “dozens of us”