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[LTC3355]

Matt Demers, on 03 April 2012 - 08:32 PM, said:

It is people's posts like the one you made that make this place look bad and unenjoyable. If you want to act like a prick here, please by all means leave. We don't need this garbage from you.

oh stop being a baby..

[D. DeLarge]

LTC3355, on 03 April 2012 - 07:39 PM, said:

yeah that's it.. some of you guys on here make me laugh, that's why maybe I ask dumb questions cause you all get so worked up and go over the top anytime someone AKA *Me* asks a question you all think they or I should already have an answer for or find on there own..

If that's the logic behind your questions, expect very little help from anyone on here in the future.

Your reputation is starting to precede you.

[Chris W]

OK this has got to stop!!

First of all, Matt is NOT being a baby! He's got a point. You have been engaging in a bit of a flame war, not just with Matt but with Kevin. Now we all know your other account was banned for, oh right! TROLLING!!! This should be a discussion about Peterborough Transit, not the site of the latest flame war.

We on the board deserve respect, respect that's hard-earned from many years of fanning, operating and working in the industry. There's a simple solution. You can't give that to us, There's the door.

Now can we just talk about Peterborough Transit again, PLEASE!?

[LTC3355]

do they have automated next-stop announcement system.. I did Google it but only found old articles on the mayor not wanting it,but nothing saying if they ever got it..

[Chris W]

NO! The screen at the front of the bus is for decoration only. Honestly, think before posting.

[Matt Demers]

LTC3355, on 03 April 2012 - 10:11 PM, said:

do they have automated next-stop announcement system.. I did Google it but only found old articles on the mayor not wanting it,but nothing saying if they ever got it..

After your charade of asking questions just for the purpose of pissing us off, do you think we should honestly trust you that you are asking this question genuinely?

[Bus_Medic]

You know both of you are falling into his trap like a couple of suckers, right?
Ignore it and it'll stop.

[t_harris01]

the driver of our charter informed me that it will still be awhile for the AA systems on all Ptbo buses to be working...plus i noticed they put the website on the side of their buses as well which were never on their buses before i moved from Ptbo...looks good on the side

[LTC3355]

t_harris01, on 03 April 2012 - 11:32 PM, said:

the driver of our charter informed me that it will still be awhile for the AA systems on all Ptbo buses to be working...plus i noticed they put the website on the side of their buses as well which were never on their buses before i moved from Ptbo...looks good on the side

thank you t_harris01, so not all the buses have the system? or some do but not all are up and going as of yet?

[t_harris01]

i believe either most do or they all do but are just not active

[TheAverageJoe]

t_harris01, on 04 April 2012 - 04:31 PM, said:

i believe either most do or they all do but are just not active

the funny thing is even the Orion V has it too!

[t_harris01]

exactly yet it wont be on the road anymore

[Marc]

t_harris01, on 04 April 2012 - 04:31 PM, said:

i believe either most do or they all do but are just not active

Can't say I've seen any buses where it's not working (unless the driver's forgotten to activate it).

Does the system work on GPS?

Was wonder after being on the Chemong yesteday which isn't going along Hilliard and Towerhill due to road works and the system went quite for a while but then picked up some stops inc Walmart depsite approaching fron the opposite direction to normal.

[general682002]

Marc, on 29 April 2012 - 01:20 PM, said:

Can't say I've seen any buses where it's not working (unless the driver's forgotten to activate it).

Does the system work on GPS?

Was wonder after being on the Chemong yesteday which isn't going along Hilliard and Towerhill due to road works and the system went quite for a while but then picked up some stops inc Walmart depsite approaching fron the opposite direction to normal.

I don't know if the company and transit have worked together to keep it working, and that product what Peterborough is using is not the only system, others are inadequate as well.

[Marc]

general682002, on 29 April 2012 - 01:25 PM, said:

I don't know if the company and transit have worked together to keep it working, and that product what Peterborough is using is not the only system, others are inadequate as well.

Umm I wasn't saying it was inadequate, I was commenting on the fact that a chunk of a bus route was taken out due to roadworks (And give it's only a temporary change, not worth cost of reprograming the system) that it picked up some stops.

personally I think the system is pretty good and seems to work quite well on the routes I travel the most (Chemong, SSFC, Highland) and can't think of why it would work as well for the other routes.

[Marc]

Did anyone get to the transit review open house last Thursday?

I wasn't able to go due to work commitments but my wife did. Having read the newletter they put out I can see some good ideas in there.

As to the man who's picture was in the Examiner article on Friday, the comment from my wife was that first he ranted at the head of the Acessible Transit Committee who there simply to find out what was going on, then at the head of the Driver's Union before going off at the guy from Dillon Consulting and not once did he have say anything positive about any of the reivew'd recommendation.

From the guy's reaction and the letter in Saturday's people I think some people forget it's there to provide the best possible service to as many people as possible and some times that's gonna mean a few people will have some inconveience so a lot more people can get access to transit it's gonna happen

[Cimon8000]

wondering if any of the ex-UTAH classics(#28 to 35) being retired yet? if not when are they expected to be retired? thank you

[Marc]

The draft of the fianl report on Transit is up on the city website.

http://www.peterboro...inal+Report.pdf

Goes to the Committee of the Whole Monday night.

It's a big read - 150 pages!!

In the intro section is mentions that Major Bennet be turned in an employment bus for peak hours (which could impact Americredit and Global Telesales). I'm just wonder if perhaps it should be pushed more the fact it goes to Costco (which I have used it for a number of times) plus it providers an alternative to the Lansdowne and Monaghan buses for getting to Lansdowne place.

[t_harris01]

Was in Peterborough yesterday...the destination signs now include a route number instead of just a name

[t_harris01]

I got word from the nice folks at the Peterborough Transit garage,,,that 5 (unofifcially) retired classics including #14 will be back in service on Peterborough streets in September for Trent and school runs. Also, our only Orion V bus # 04, is being repaired and will also be back on the road starting September 2012 for High School runs for Thomas A Stewart S.S. So Peterborough might be the place to visit to see 04 and other classics running this fall