Transit Committee: 10 September 2026
On 10 September, Transit Committee made its final meeting before the October election to discuss the Customer First Action Plan, service reliability, and the bus fleet.
Topic
Electric Buses
A collection of 10 issues
Transit Committee - 11 June, 2026
Transit Committee on 11 June. The meeting provided reasons to be both optimistic and pessimistic, but this is not OC Transpo's first brush with great-sounding action plans, their capacity for long-term planning and Council's ability to supervise such an undertaking remains in question.
Transit Committee - 14 May, 2026
Transit Committee met for the fourth this year on 14 May. The frequency of meetings has increased since last year, likely in response to criticism that the Committee was not working hard enough to solve Ottawa's transit problems.
This meeting brings mostly good news. An end to the
Transit Committee - 9 April, 2026
On 9 April, Transit Committee met for its third meeting of 2026.
This is the first Transit Committee since Rick Leary joined OC Transpo. Bus reliability is improving thanks to the better weather, e-bus deliveries, and lower service requirements during summer. However, the spalling problem with Line 1'
Transit Committee - 12 March, 2026
Another month, another Transit Committee.
The spalling trouble remained unresolved and the surface network remained unreliable throughout February. Adding to these problems, an ice storm whipped through town the day before the meeting, causing Line 1's catenary wires to snap and forcing three days of R1 service on
Transit Committee - 12 February, 2026
On the 12th of February, Transit Committee met for the first time in 2026. The video of this meeting can be found here.
Since the last Transit Committee in November, bus service has continued to deteriorate, and adding to OC Transpo's troubles, most of the Line 1 fleet
Transit Committee - 11 September, 2025
Introduction
On 11 September, 2025, Transit Committee met for its fifth meeting this year. The meeting video can be found at this link.
Reliability continues to be the big issue facing OC Transpo. This meeting, councillors discussed reliability problems, the electric bus program and fleet assignments, and funding splits for
Transit Committee - 12 June, 2025
Introduction
On 12 June, 2025, Transit Committee met for the fourth time this year. You can find the meeting video here.
This meeting was presentation heavy, and as such, this update is a little longer than usual as well.
As usual, councilors talked a range of questions, some good, many
Transit Committee - 10 April, 2025
Introduction
On Thursday, the 10th of April 2025, Transit Committee held its third meeting of the year. Video link here, the meeting begins at 20:45.
This meeting was a head-turner, and featured some good discussion of OC Transpo's reliability problems, and the hard questions needed to
Transit Committee - 13 February, 2025
On Thursday, the 13th of February 2025, Transit Commission ... I mean, Transit Committee met for the first time in nearly three months to receive updates from OC Transpo's management on a variety of information. The video link can be found here.
Before we begin, note that Vice-Chair