At long, long last...

[fajrdrako]

Good news: the bus strike is over at last. CITY AND ATU LOCAL 279 REACH TENTATIVE AGREEMENT.

So when can the buses be back on the streets?

Comments

[brashley46.livejournal.com]

Been following this from Toronto, of course ... looks like about a week to get your bus fleet back up and running.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'll be ready. Life is so much easier when there are buses. Really.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

About time. Just a bunch of egos (particularly the Mayor) who wouldn't actually listen to what the other side wanted.

And after the first three weeks, the atmosphere was so poisoned, I don't think any sort of negotiations could have been successful.

If any City Councillor (or the union members) votes this agreement down, I think they're in risk of being lynched.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Just a bunch of egos

So true.

If any City Councillor (or the union members) votes this agreement down, I think they're in risk of being lynched.

I'm the non-violent type, but I think I'd... I don't know... put a hex on them or something. A plague of boils?

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

I hope this bananarama *will* be remembered ... when the civic elections next take place in Nov. 2010.

A few councillors (Alex Cullen and Clive Doucet) acquitted themselves honorably. The rest ... GRRRR.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The Mayor is a scumbag and some of his councillors are no better.

I hope they throw the book at him for illegal election practices.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I fear that my councillor will be among those trying to vote it down. Hoping I'm wrong.

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

Then you need to contact him or her. The letter included in this post (http://community.livejournal.com/octranspo/560824.html) is a good place to start. :-)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Write to him - harass him - don't let him!

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

So when can the buses be back on the streets?

Next week sometime -- but I suspect they'll be so overcrowded to start (because not all will be back yet) that it's going to be almost as bad as pre-strike.

What I've heard is that the Transitway routes will come back first, plus mainline routes like the #2 and #7. But not the #1 except off-peak.

The Citizen says:
This is OC Transpo's tentative plan for which routes will be back first.

*Weekdays*

Will operate during their regularly scheduled day, including rush hours:
. O-Train
. All school routes, numbered in the 600s
. Rapid transit routes 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 101, 102 and 106
. Major routes 2, 7, 12, 14, 85, 86 and 118
. Peak employment route 105
. Van route 123
. Early morning routes 824, 825, 830, 835, 837, and 873

Will operate evenings and mid-day only, outside of rush hours:
. Routes 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 16, 18, 87, 111, 112, 114, 115, 116 and 117
. Local black routes numbered 121 through 178

Will not operate immediately:
. Green express and rural express routes
. Red rush hour routes other than 102 and 105

*Saturday & Sunday *
All routes that normally run on weekends will operate at full service.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

At least I get my #7, and thank goodness I don't live further south.

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

Yay! for you, and your fair city.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Hopefully the city will recover. This has been really hard on businessness, especially on Bank Street and downtown.

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

You may find a post in the OC Transpo community (http://community.livejournal.com/octranspo/560824.html) interesting.

[dejla.livejournal.com]

Oh, terrific! I hope you get your buses back soon!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I hope so too. They say it'll be a week, and then some bus lines will start up again. At last!

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo! I'm so glad for you.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It's a relief. But it was snowing again today, and the buses won't be on the roads for a week.

At least we have an end in sight.