Because of how OC Transpo schedules their buses, a 2 min delay on Bank can easily snowball into a 15 min delay later down the line.

This isn't just about travel time. It's about efficiency and making movements down Bank more predictable, easier scheduling, and therefore less cancelled trips.

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I don't think you quite get it. We need to make as efficient use as possible of our small fleet while we work on healing it. How are buses sitting in stop-and-go traffic at all efficient?

When a bus is late enough, trips start getting cancelled because there is NO BUS TO REPLACE IT.

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Prioritizing the roll out of transit priority measures (dedicated bus lanes on busy corridors like Bank/Rideau/Carling, GPS-triggered lights) would also speed up trips and allow a fleet stretched thin and with a heavily interlined schedule to have more buses available instead of trapped in traffic.

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Aujourd'hui, lors de la permanence d'information, Ajay Ramachandran m'a présenté les visualisations de données qu'il a créées à partir des données GTFS sur la distribution des autobus.

Use the tool to understand how buses move around the city, how trips get shifted, and to see the cascading effects that bus lateness or non-availability have. It doesn't solve our current problems, but it gives residents the data to validate what they're experiencing every day.

Delays cause the next trip to be cancelled or require using one of the very limited spare buses available

3) Emergency bus lane and transit priority measures need to be enacted on key corridors to ensure our working buses are used as efficiently as possible. We can't have our limited bus fleet standing still in traffic.

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We are asking OC Transpo to:
- Order more high-capacity buses to properly expand and replace our aging fleet
- Increase funding for transit priority measures on corridors such as Bank St, Carling Ave, and Baseline Rd to use our limited buses as efficiently as possible