这就是腐败。引用一段报纸:
For riders and residents, however — whose fares and property taxes fund OC Transpo — it’s actually been a frustrating few years.
Consider:
• A 53-day transit strike in the dead of winter, 2008-09;
• A so-called “route optimization” plan designed to save $22 million that saw rerouting, merging of routes and cancelling of neighbourhood bus runs in off-peak hours, 2011;
• A multitude of delays, issues and bugs with the introduction of the Presto tap-and-go pay system, 2012-13;
• An issue with new double-decker buses that saw exhaust vented into the cabins, making at least one driver so sick he had to be hospitalized, 2012; and
• A $60-million O-Train expansion project, which was approved in June 2011, and was to be completed last September, but remains mired in trouble.
Yet next Wednesday, council is poised to approve an average fare increase of 2.5 per cent. If approved, the measure would see the single cash fare exceed $3.50 as of July 1.
It’s all fed criticism of OC Transpo services from those who say they are too expensive, too unreliable and too frustrating to bother with.
And, behind the latest problem, looms another question from the critics: If the city can’t get the O-Train to work, how can residents have confidence that the $2.1-billion Confederation Line will work once it opens in 2018?