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Stage 2 Update (Transit Committee) - 11 September, 2025

At Transit Committee, staff presented a Stage 2 update to council. This was a truncated version, due to time constraints, so this article will mostly be a photo dump, providing photos for those who do not wish to trudge through the meeting. Timestamp at 4:49:00. The relevant document

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

Stage 2 Update (Transit Committee) - 12 June, 2025

Introduction This is the second part to my update on the Transit Committee meeting on 12 June, focusing on Stage 2 updates. The first part, covering everything else, can be found here. The relevant documents are a report to city council at this link and a motion here. Stage 2

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

Renee Amilcar leaves OC Transpo, path forward is unclear

Introduction Renée Amilcar announced early this month that she would resign from her position as General Manager at OC Transpo, and move to Montreal as head of Mobilé Infra Québec. This has both written annd unwritten implications for the future of OC Transpo. This indicates problems bubbling beneath the surface,

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

Stage 2 Update (Transit Committee) - 17 March, 2025

On the 17th of March, a Monday, Transit Committee met for the second meeting of the year. Video link. Meeting begins at 16:50. The Stage 2 update presentation begins at timestamp 3:35:30 in the video. Introduction In January, the city disbanded the LRT Subcommittee. Light rail updates,

Transit Committee - 17 March, 2025

On the 17th of March, a Monday, Transit Committee met for the second meeting of the year. Video link. Meeting begins at 16:50. Routine Update Renée Amilcar was unavailable, and the regular was presented by Bart Cormier, Director of Strategic Communications and External Relations at OC Transpo. The presentation

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

Transit Commission Meeting - 25 November, 2024

On Monday, the 25th of November, the Transit Commission met to discuss the budget, which was carried to City Council with some amendments. On the 13th of November, the City of Ottawa released its draft budget for 2025. The full Transit budget book can be found as a PDF here.