Bus After Midnight, Pt. II: Overnight Service
After the train shuts down, night buses continue to provide service to the city - but with duplication, uncoordinated transfers, and inefficient blocks.
Topic
Scheduling
A collection of 9 issues
Audit of Bus Service Planning and Scheduling
On the 19th of June, the Auditor General released a wide-ranging audit focusing on scheduling and planning at OC Transpo, with a strong condemnation of both Transit Committee and OC Transpo management's practices over the past 20 years.
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.
Bus After Midnight, Pt. I: the last bus of the day
Every day at midnight, transit service stops for the night, only to resume the next morning. Shutting down a transit service is more complex than it seems though, and an examination of late night service on OC Transpo reveals some patterns that are difficult to spot during the more complex
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 - 24 November, 2025
On the 24th of November, Transit Committee met for its sixth and final meeting of the year. The meeting link, for those interested, was uploaded to YouTube here.
As the last Transit Committee meeting of the year, discussion centered around the budget. It includes $47 million in funding from the
Bus Scheduling, Part III: Efficiencies, Improvements, and Flexibility
Introduction
This is the third and final part of the series on bus scheduling. The first two parts can be found here.
Remember that OC Transpo claims that their system "permit[s] more flexibility," "increase[s] efficiency," and "reduce[s] operating costs."
In fact,
Bus Scheduling, Part II: Interlining
Introduction
This is the second part of a three-part series. To read the first part on runtimes and layovers, click here.
In this article, I will focus on the practice of interlining.
According to OC Transpo, whose memo you can read here, interlining is
essential to delivering the most
Bus Scheduling, Part I: Run Times, Layovers, and Propagating Delays
Introduction
Reliability is a major concern for both OC Transpo and its passengers. According to OC Transpo's own surveys, reliability of service is the primary concern of its riders, while Transit Committee is dominated with discussion of reliability: fleet, scheduling, customer satisfaction, plans, and more. It's