{"id":765984,"date":"2026-06-28T03:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765984\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T03:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:10:11","slug":"software-problem-keeps-some-electric-oc-transpo-buses-off-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765984\/","title":{"rendered":"Software problem keeps some electric OC Transpo buses off the road"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A software problem prevented dozens of OC Transpo’s electric buses from hitting the roads Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

The issue kept 133 buses at the St. Laurent garage from charging properly overnight, leaving them unready for the start of service, the city told CBC in an email.<\/p>\n

As a result, drivers and maintenance staff were forced to relocate Saturday morning to other garages not normally open on weekends, said Noah Vineberg, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 279.<\/p>\n

“[It was] a scramble just for operators to be able to get to buses as quickly as possible and on time in order to serve the public,” he said.<\/p>\n

The software issue “caused some electric buses to charge at a slower rate than normal,” wrote Troy Charter, the city’s associate general manager of transit services, in an email. <\/p>\n

OC Transpo used shuttles to take operators to different garages, Charter said, and also deployed a number of buses not typically used on weekends. <\/p>\n

That “quick action” minimized disruptions for riders, he said. <\/p>\n

The affected electric buses still had enough power to move about the garage, the city said.<\/p>\n

\"ANoah Vineberg is president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 279, which represents OC Transpo’s operators. (Nathan Fung\/CBC)City will review problem<\/p>\n

Vineberg said it took extra time to get buses on the roads Saturday, partly due to how they’re parked in the garages.<\/p>\n

“You can imagine a lot of these are are stationed in a garage bumper-to-bumper in all their charging portals,” he said.<\/p>\n

“So even if even if it’s only a certain amount of them that [didn’t charge properly], the way they line up inside of [the garage] would affect whether or not they can go out.”<\/p>\n

The software problem has been addressed, Charter wrote, and buses are charging normally now.<\/p>\n

Monitoring is in place and no further service impacts are expected, he said, adding the city will review what happened.<\/p>\n

While the issues appeared to have been resolved by the afternoon, Vineberg said the problem serves as a lesson that there needs to be better contingency plan in place.<\/p>\n

He also said he’s surprised a warning system doesn’t exist if there’s a failure with the charging system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-765984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}