One More Weekend Done and Gone...

And I got some grocery shopping done. In fact, I think that was probably my greatest achievement over this past weekend. Lots of other stuff went on as well, of course, but a lot of that gets filed under "not my story alone to tell".

As I write this, I'm checking the job boards again. Later today, I expect assorted house chores to get some of my attention as well. Hoping to schedule any interview trips relatively early in the local morning, of course, due to expected high temperatures hereabouts.

Note About an Old Amateur Press Alliance...

...that I used to belong to.

Legends APA is an APA that I used to contribute to for about...I want to say "fifteen years" here. My memory is flawed. The public-facing blog barely lasted a year, but it's still in place in an archival role by the looks of things. And the link attached to my name goes to my old Livejournal account, long-since purged in reply to the demand that I do my Livejournalling as if I lived in Russia.

TRANSIT: Underestimating the Situation

Have a look at this:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/oc-transpo-overtime-costs-rising-1.5200845

Noting this quotation in particular from the article:

"The city handed layoff notices to 345 transit operators last August. At the time, the Confederation Line was expected to be up and running by November. That deadline and several subsequent ones have come and gone, and it's now hoped the trains will be running by September.

Many of those layoff notices have since been rescinded, but some drivers have moved on to other jobs. As of June 1, the city had 76 fewer drivers than it had in April 2018, and overall there are 140 job vacancies."

I am thinking that those layoffs were a mistake in themselves. Also, the long-standing assumption that OC Transpo will need fewer buses once the trains are up and running is an error that's going to backfire on us passengers. If the O-Train lines work as we hope, there's going to be more passengers on those buses feeding into and out of the Trillium and Confederation Lines. And more people needing to get around those portions of the city that don't get directly served by the train lines, as well.

So, they'd better not shed those buses and drivers.