booger the buses
Bloog, so out of it. I've been reading all day and my mind is jelly.
I stopped taking the bus a few years ago because I felt angry with the long
wait times and bad service. I discovered that walking the 7km distance
between my house and school was far faster than waiting for the various forms
of transportation that never actually got me exactly where I wanted to go.
Today I looked up the fares on the OCTranspo website, as I had to make a trip
downtown and it was too cold to walk. Did you know that they are charging
$3.00 for a trip now? And they have recently passed new rules so that people
with disabilities who are in wheelchairs and the like no longer ride for
free! Why? So you can gouge another penny from someone who likely can ill
afford it? All for a transit system so inefficient I believe we should scrap
it all together?
I have recently visited both Montreal and Toronto, two cities who have
remarkably efficient transit systems, whose vehicles actually deposit you at
your destination -- not a fifteen minute walk away -- at far less cost. And
their systems are so much bigger!
Why is Ottawa's system so crappy?
Posted by Ally at March 13, 2006 06:14 PM