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Originally Posted by Norman Bates
...based on the information I've seen to date, the Moose initiative is giving off the vibe of vapourware.
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Please identify any inflated claims you have come across in anything we have said.
I trust you will refer to any of the extensive sources we have published via our site, or comments we have posted online. Media reports are highly varied in terms of accuracy.
Even the very welcome and complementary
OttawaSUN editorial yesterday suggested that MOOSE would be privatizing transit in the Greater NCR. But we're not privatizing something that's currently public.
Through the autonomous entrepreurial initiative of its founding companies, MOOSE is creating a whole-region transit integration service where none exists, filling a gap in the market. And once we're running, we expect that OC-Transpo's LRT and buses, and STO's buses, will be deployable to more neighbourhoods, and will see greater use. Furthermore, from the outset, we've invited OC-Transpo to be the train operator on the Smiths Falls to La Pêche line, and STO to be the operator on the Arnprior to Montebello line. MOOSE is an open consortium. If they choose not to be operators in a regional system, that's okay. If they're still thinking about it, they should hurry up. We're proceeding in discussions with other operators.
Why the NCC hasn't done what we're planning to do, under
Section 13 of the National Capital Act, we really don't understand at all. The "privatization" term would apply if the NCC initiated something like this through a PPP. But they didn't. So we are.
Joseph Potvin
Director General | Directeur général
Moose Consortium (Mobility Ottawa-Outaouais: Systems & Enterprises) |
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Consortium Moose (Mobilité Outaouais-Ottawa: Systèmes & Enterprises) |
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