John McNeish, an OC Transpo users wonders why OC Transpo bus shelters seem to be disappearing?

I just put my bike away for the season and had begun to take OC Transpo buses for the winter when I noticed two curious phenomena regarding downtown bus shelters.

A bus shelter outside a long-term care facility in the Glebe disappeared just before the Bank Street reconstruction and had not returned, so I wrote to Mr Chernushenko requesting his intervention to have it rescued and brought back.

I had only just finished pressing “send” on my e-mail, and stepped out for a coffee on Elgin Street when I noticed that the OC Transpo shelter on the west side of Elgin Street at O’Connor has also disappeared. Then I noticed that no more than four small people — one and half sitting on the tiny bench, and two and half standing — can fit into the shelter behind the gas station on the West side of Bank at McLeod; everyone else has to stand outside in the wind and cold and rain and sleet.

I instantly understood what is happening: someone at OCTranspo has been shrinking the bus shelters until they disappear!! This is serious. We need a Christmas fairy at OC Transpo to reverse the evil spell on downtown bus shelters so that all of us shivering blue little elves will not freeze in the winter winds.

Could you help Mr Chernushenko and OC Transpo make the Downtown/Centretown bus shelters re-appear?

Internet site reference: http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2011/12/17/the-amazing-disappearing-oc-transpo-shelters/