[IRT_BMT_IND]

Agreed.

Quebec seems to have near zero long term planning and vision for what its transit should look like outside of Montreal.

Personally I think the feds should be responsible for NCR interprovincial transit because having a bescope ottawa and gatneu system seems so stupid to me when both cities effectively are one.

Its like if waterloo regions had three separate ion systems ending right at each other's borders..dumb

One weird and very annoying quirk is that Presto and and Gatineau's Multi card are partially interoperable except in the one area where it really counts, which is being able to originate a trip on the "other" system. So you can use your Presto to transfer to an STO bus, but if you don't have a second card you still need cash or paper STO bus tickets for the reverse trip. So it's really most useful for commuters with passes, because if you need two smartcards in other use cases it makes the benefits of interoperability mostly redundant. I suspect this is because Ontario and Quebec don't trust each other to give each other write access to their respective systems and/or don't want to deal with paying each other.

 

[Bojaxs]

Well, the situation with the Alstom Citadis's in Ottawa is getting out of hand.

70% of the fleet being pulled out of service to fix the axel issues, which could take over a year to complete.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/comments/1ree185/lrt_might_be_running_but_good_luck_getting_on_the

 

[Thaboss]

Well, the situation with the Alstom Citadis's in Ottawa is getting out of hand.

70% of the fleet being pulled out of service to fix the axel issues, which could take over a year to complete.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/comments/1ree185/lrt_might_be_running_but_good_luck_getting_on_the

At this point it would be irresponsible for the govt to bring back workers to in person days from three to four days this summer

 

[drum118]

What to expect on the commute when four-day return-to-office begins​