Alternatives to Ottawa Public Transit (Part Two): Bring back hitchhiking Given the abysmal service offered by OC Transpo, hereafter known as Octopus Transit, and the 19% hike in the cost of a monthly pass for seniors (albeit down from the 120% increase originally floated by the Octopi commission), it is high time to seek alternatives..
The Ottawa public transit blues A letter to the Ottawa Citizen newspaper My wife and I are newcomers to Ottawa, both of us are seniors with disabilities, and we are appalled by the abysmal bus service offered in our newly adopted city. We rely on public transit to move about as neither of us..