Mohammed Adam: If your bus happens to be late, and you have to wait in one of those unheated shelters after missing your connection, you are in big trouble.

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After some 20 years of driving, circumstances forced me to switch to public transit this fall, and it has been something of a culture shock. When you are used to getting to places with the car, it is something else to suddenly find yourself freezing outside, waiting for buses that sometimes come late, or not at all.

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My transit adventures have given me first-hand experience of OC Transpo........

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