OC Transpo

[YOWetal]

Originally Posted by Hybrid247

She worked at the STM for nearly 20 years, 5+ years of which was as the director of bus maintenance and another 6+ as executive director of bus operations. She did this in a city with one of the largest bus fleets and highest ridership levels on the continent. Managing STM bus services alone, which has more than twice the amount of buses than Ottawa, is a substantially larger undertaking than managing all of OC Transpo - and she excelled at it. This is exactly the type of leader you want for the GM of a transit agency.

Considering that she inherited the position in the midst of an unprecedented paradigm shift in Ottawa's workforce from in-office to remote work, which accounted for the bulk of ridership, and then having to reorganize from a downtown and commuter focused service to a more decentralized one in a largely sprawly, car-oriented city - all on a shrinking, shoestring budget - is a losing endeavor that was never going to solve OC's ridership and revenue issues. Once again, if we want better service under these new, unprecedented conditions, give her the necessary resources to do it.

Have a read at the below contradictory quotes from Brockington, and tell me OC and its GM are the issue here and not Council.

If the job is organizing the bus schedule great, but as you are saying Ottawa's challenge is about rallying support for increased funding and that is where the experience was lacking. And totally accept they might have chosen that way on purpose and for reasons unrelated to our long tangent.

She has not done this:

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/ctas-dorval-carter-says-chicago-transit-needs-funding

or this

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ttc-chair-pushes-transit-funding-as-election-issue-1.3202229