OC Transpo Be Like: "My Bad, Bus is Late... Again" 🚌🤦‍♀️

The Deets

Okay, so the tea is OC Transpo is straight-up failing. Like, they can't even hit their reliability targets. New hires and tweaking routes ain't doing squat. It's giving major L.

The real reason? Their bus fleet is ancient. Half those buses are past their prime, which means more breakdowns and more time chilling in the garage. That leads to cancelled routes and fewer spare buses. It's a whole crisis.

Traffic's also throwing shade. All that east LRT construction and the fact that they ain't got enough bus-only lanes on the Transitway is causing mad delays. It's a struggle bus on a struggle bus.

And don't even get me started on the e-buses. They're supposed to be all eco-friendly and stuff, but they're stuck in manufacturing and supply chain limbo. The city's trying to snag 350 by the end of 2027, but who knows if that'll even happen. The charging stations are also lagging behind, talk about inconvenient.

To make matters worse, they've been buying used diesel buses and are considering copping even more diesel or hybrid buses in the future. It's like, are we going forward or backward?

But here's the plan, they're gonna stagger bus replacements in the future so they don't end up with a whole fleet of geriatric buses at once. Smart move, finally. Let's see if they can actually pull it off, tho.