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City buses on most routes met their schedules an average of 63 per cent of the time in the first half of 2017, a couple of notches down from the same period in the previous year and matching the transit agency’s worst performance over six years.

OC Transpo recorded its on-time performance between January and June of 2016 at 65 per cent.

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The measure dropped to 63 per cent in the last half of 2016 and stayed at that rate in the first half of 2017.

The recently updated Transpo statistics, which are now published semi-annually, also show that a higher rate of buses were late in the first six months of 2017 compared to the same period last year.

Eleven per cent of buses were late between January and June 2016, but the rate increased to 13 per cent in the last half of 2016 and stayed at that level in the first half of 2017.

Transpo measures its overall on-time performance in the weekday morning peak period between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. It separates its on-time performance by regular routes (rapid, frequent and local routes), which are those that serve most of the city, and those that run on the limited-hour “Connexion” routes and the former express routes.