09-09-2015, 07:59 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-09-2015, 08:00 AM by SERIOUSLY THOUGH.)
Didn't make the international CNNs or the FOXes, but this absolute mess of a transit system welcomed commuters here yesterday. Good thing I walk to work...
Background - The municipality diverted many bus routes and closed stations in order to build a light rail train for commuters (opening in 2018). The problem is, there's this one station just South of downtown where pretty much every bus that goes southbound or eastbound goes. This station is bizzarly designed, with buses going round a kind of central area, coming and going like a giant roundabout, stopping and starting to let off and pick up everyone who wants to change bus. For some reason, they didn't predict the mayhem, and people ended up spending two more hours than usual getting to where they wanted to go as a thousand-bus girouette surprisingly couldn't actually cope with a million buses at once. A shambles.
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news...ay-morning
Background - The municipality diverted many bus routes and closed stations in order to build a light rail train for commuters (opening in 2018). The problem is, there's this one station just South of downtown where pretty much every bus that goes southbound or eastbound goes. This station is bizzarly designed, with buses going round a kind of central area, coming and going like a giant roundabout, stopping and starting to let off and pick up everyone who wants to change bus. For some reason, they didn't predict the mayhem, and people ended up spending two more hours than usual getting to where they wanted to go as a thousand-bus girouette surprisingly couldn't actually cope with a million buses at once. A shambles.
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news...ay-morning