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Yes, the plan to build a bus tunnel through downtown was never completed. The expected construction period for the tunnel would have occurred during the Mike Harris 'Commonsense Revolution' years when transit capital spending across Ontario came to a halt. It was never seriously considered once transit spending dried up and rail possibilities came on the scene.
The public urination one isn't really one I'd count when complaining about reliability, nor the medical emergencies that happen from time to time. I would say major shutdowns are definitely getting farther apart, but we aren't at the level we should be.
I never meant it to relate to the signalling system.
I mean that those particular Canadian rapid transit line with the Seltrac system has some sort of problem. Not that the problem involves the actual Seltrac system.
www.railwayage.com
Which is now shining the light on the bus system problems and the lack of drivers. Today, the main bus route to Barrhaven had cancelled trips at 2:45, 3:35, 3:45, 4:00, 4:05, 4:15, 4:20, 4:30, 4:45, 4:50, 6:10, 6:15, 6:30 p.m. Looks like they cancelled the last trip on Route 256 this morning, unacceptable.
That is true but I think it goes beyond that. They also overestimated the number of drivers that they could lay off and they under budgeted the switch over to the Confederation Line. The end result is a shortage of both drivers and buses. They dumped surplus buses immediately after the October 6th final switch-over. The whole plan was underconfigured with not enough contingencies built in. I think the budget was a driving force. The operating costs and capital cost repayment for the Confederation Line are more than the operating costs of the buses that they replaced.
