Share this Story : Avoiding transit app outage is one thing, but community group says greater accuracy a must, too Copy Link Email X Reddit Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News Avoiding transit app outage is one thing, but community group says greater accuracy a must, too “Improving communication would really lower the temperature of people’s frustration with the buses. If you had more accurate information, you would be less frustrated." Author of the article: Robyn Best, Special to the Citizen Published Feb 22, 2025 • Last updated 0 minutes ago • 3 minute read Join the conversation You can save this article by registering for free here .
Or sign-in if you have an account. A photo of the Transit app taken on the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 21, 2025.
Photo by Gord Holder / POSTMEDIA Article content Wednesday night into Thursday morning, OC Transpo riders found themselves unable to get real-time updates on their phones as the Transit app was down. The shutdown came as “an update was performed that resulted in an outage to the system that feeds real-time prediction data to these travel tools,” City of Ottawa transit spokesperson David Jones said in a statement. Advertisement 2 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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