Bojaxs
Senior Member
Wow! Stunned! OC Transpo has just named Rick Leary as their new General Manager.
What is Ottawa thinking!?
What is Ottawa thinking!?
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urbanclient
Active Member
Surprise turns to unsurprise when considering the general service cuts and lack of fixes since the derailments and public inquiry 4-5 years ago...
Amare
Senior Member
I apologize for the stupidity of your politicians and higher level civil servants Ottawa.
If you thought the OC Transpo was bad now, this clown is going to run things down and degrade it to a level you've never experienced before.
How does this idiotic buffoon keep getting hired? Is the evidence from him crippling and running down transit systems in Boston and Toronto not enough proof?
urbanclient
Active Member
It's a big club and you ain't in it. When you get into that club, you rarely fail downwards.
Obsidian
Active Member
When you see stuff like this it means this is the outcome the people who higher him are fine with.
The city of Ottawa doesn't want to invest more in their system so they hire a guy who will be ok with it.
IRT_BMT_IND
Active Member
Given the tribulations that OC Transpo has faced post LRT would the system be better off in a counterfactual where they built a bus tunnel downtown to deal with the congestion on Albert and Slater and left the rest of the transitway system as-is? OCT could have used either battery buses, or dual mode or battery trolleybuses to deal with the ventilation problem (battery bus technology was less developed when the LRT was being planned, but OCT could have installed trolley wire on the transitway without dealing with NIMBY objections and it would have been a fraction of the cost of building rail).
I would say OC Transpo really needs a David Gunn or even Andy Byford like figure to fix the mess. Someone who for instance has the balls to tell city council that replacing the trains will be the only way to really fix the LRT, so they need to find the money if they want a system that works.
I would say OC Transpo really needs a David Gunn or even Andy Byford like figure to fix the mess. Someone who for instance has the balls to tell city council that replacing the trains will be the only way to really fix the LRT, so they need to find the money if they want a system that works.
JJTheJetPln
Active Member
I can't wait for all the slow zones!
Kyle Campbell
Senior Member
We already have those
Amare
Senior Member
Ottawa clearly doesnt know what they're doing, and they are content with having their system being put into a rundown state.
The fact that they hired an imbecile in Rick Leary goes to show it.
JJTheJetPln
Active Member
Now you can have more!
legoswmonkey
New Member
It won't just be slow zones. Rumours have been swirling the last week or so that they're planning to shut the entire line down for 6 months over the summer. I won't place much stock in them until a better source reports on it but the Mayor isn't ruling it out: https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...down-as-spalling-issue-continues-on-vehicles/
Amare
Senior Member
From the CTV article above:
Sutcliffe said Leary’s “number one job” is to do a “full assessment” on O-Train Line 1.
“And make recommendations on the best way forward to restoring full service for our passengers,” the mayor said.
Lol, yeah good luck Ottawa. Your system is about to get completely de-railed, these people arent serious.
Sutcliffe said Leary’s “number one job” is to do a “full assessment” on O-Train Line 1.
“And make recommendations on the best way forward to restoring full service for our passengers,” the mayor said.
Lol, yeah good luck Ottawa. Your system is about to get completely de-railed, these people arent serious.
urbanclient
Active Member
Electrified rail. A truly novel concept. I am ever grateful for our brave Canadian pioneers. I'm sure these are just teething problems for a brand new line...
Tuscani01
Senior Member
Though if Leary turns things around - it could show that maybe he wasn't the problem.