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Originally Posted by Richard Eade
Thanks for the link to Better Transit Ottawa, OCCheetos. However, I don’t see where the numbers come from.
For example, in the top graph, it has a variable labeled ‘Trips removed from schedule’ – which it describes as: “Trips removed are the number of trips that have been removed from the schedule since the schedule published on January 6th 2026.”
Yet, on January 12, 2026, OC Transpo TEMPORARILY removed 255 trips from the schedule. This is not reflected in the graph, which indicates that only 3 trips were removed on the 12th. Also, the graph shows a jump in removed trips of 142 on January 23, 2026; yet OC Transpo did not announce any additional trip removals at that time.
The Better Transit Ottawa graph seems to suggest that 127 of the removed trips were returned on March 16, 2026. I have not heard that OC Transpo has returned any removed trips. In fact, with the April 19, 2026 Spring Schedule, the number of TEMPORARILY removed trips increased to 279. The graph does show an increase on removed trips, from 105 to 216 on April 24, 2026, but even that does not match OC Transpo’s announcement.
As of its April 24, 2026 update, OC Transpo had 99 e-buses running in its fleet. The second graph from Better Transit Ottawa shows just 81 e-buses in total for April 27, 2026.
I don’t see an easy way of settling the discrepancies in the numbers.
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The discrepancies are primarily due to changes in the published scheduled data. The list of "temporarily cancelled" trips was manually defined by the maintainer of the website, so changes to the schedule data and the "trip IDs" can cause double counts or undercounts. That aspect of the graph is meant to be illustrative.
The rest of the data comes from OC Transpo's real-time data feed.
The temporary cancelled trips were, in fact, restored for the week of March 16th. School trips were not operating because of March break and so OC Transpo ran the other cancelled trips without any announcement or fanfare.
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