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Originally Posted by DTcrawler
That's why ads on the exterior of buses advertise jewellery, Sens tickets and, ironically, cars, while the ads on the interior of buses are about things like social services, STD prevention, teen pregnancy, drug addiction, etc.
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Jeez... I never really clued in on that but now that I think about it you are correct. Very astute observation and I agree with the rest of your post.
OC Transpo is a pretty poorly run organization by the looks of it.
-Lack of preparation for the rule changes regarding the bus drivers breaks. They then have the audacity to turn around and kind of shrug and imply it wasn't their fault they are short on drivers.
-For a service that is clearly short on revenue I'm surprised how little ads there actually are on the buses to start with these days. There is also no advertising on the trains or within stations. I know they said in the first year they wanted to avoid advertising to focus on wayfinding which I thought was a good idea. I would usually be the last guy advocate for more ads but there seems to be some missed opportunity here to generate additional revenue.
-The selection of 40' and artics can also be strange at times. Not often, but occasionally for myself a busy rush hour bus route will show up with a 40' when it would normally be an artic. You will often see this route run an artic until last bus. I'm sure there are semi valid reasons for this like breakdowns and such but still aggravating.
-Bus routing and timing can be peculiar in regards to transfers.
The 90 and 92 both start and finish at the same place. The 90 has 15 minute service and the 92 has 30 minute. Without fail all 4 buses will pass by each other within a MAXIMUM of 5 minutes. This stretch of road is the nexus
of the densest part of both bus routes aside from the midrises that the 90 passes by at Springland.
A 92 that gets me to South Keys in 5 minutes is just as useful as waiting for the other bus that will take me all the way to Hurdman as I can easily transfer to a Transitway bus. This phenomenon is particularly noticeable in the winter. A large heated shelter at South Keys certainly beats waiting in the sidewalk shelter.
I'm biased because these are the two busses I use but the timing of these route always seemed weird.