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OC TRANSPO: Holiday schedule changes coming, including free New Year’s Eve service after 8 p.m.
(press release via OC Transpo) OC Transpo and Para Transpo are the safe and reliable way to travel during the holidays and are offering free service after 8 p.m. on…
OC TRANSPO: Big winter schedule changes coming December 20
(press release via OC Transpo) Starting Sunday, December 20, the next phase of OC Transpo service adjustments to accommodate O-Train Confederation Line construction will take effect. These service adjustments require…
Over 9,000 items collected for Food Bank during “Fill the Bus”
For the 30th year, OC Transpo parked buses outside of local Loblaws, Superstores and Your Independent Grocers locations across Ottawa on Saturday, asking shoppers to pack them full of food…
NOTEBOOK: Refugees, Carp River, OC Transpo, Tow Trucks
STITTSVILLE’S REFUGEE EFFORT The Kanata Stittsville Refugee Sponsorship Group (KSRSG) met again this week to work on plans for sponsoring Syrian refugees. Rev. Grant Dillenbeck from Stittsville United Church chairs the group, and…
City service changes in honour of Veterans’ Week and Remembrance Day
(Photo: Wreaths at the 2014 Remembrance Day ceremonial service at the Cenotaph on Warner-Colpitts Lane. Photo by Barry Gray.) (Media advisory) To mark this year’s Veterans’ Week, the City of Ottawa…
Accordion bus trial run for route 262
Stittsville bus commuters may want to sit down for this news: OC Transpo is testing out a bigger bus on route 262. Here’s a note from Shad Qadri’s weekly newsletter:…
LINKED: New Kanata park-and-ride costs $47,000 per spot
https://twitter.com/joeboughner/status/648986693576622080 https://twitter.com/KellyEganColumn/status/648998027152240640 Kelly Egan writes in the Ottawa Citizen about overcrowding at OC Transpo’s Eagleson park-and-ride, the city’s plan for a new lot at the corner of Innovation Drive and Terry Fox Drive…
New Park-and-Ride planned near Richcraft Recreation Complex
OC Transpo and councillor Marianne Wilkinson are hosting a public meeting on Thursday, September 27 at 7:00pm at the Richcraft Recreation Complex in Kanata North about a new Park-and-Ride. Here’s a…
OC Transpo fall service changes start Sunday, September 6
(via OC Transpo) Effective Sunday, September 6, new fall schedules go into effect on most routes and some routing changes will be implemented. In the Stittsville area Route 196 service…
Lots of room on the new Blackstone shuttle bus today
The long-awaited Blackstone shuttle bus hit the road for the first time this morning to mixed reviews. Here are a few tweets we received from one of the Blackstone residents.
Free ‘luxury’ shuttle bus starts August 31 for Blackstone, Fernbank Crossing residents
UPDATE (Sept 11): StittsvilleCentral.ca asked OC Transpo what route buses would take once OC Transpo starts serving the Blackstone community. Here’s an email response attributed to Pat Scrimgeour, AGM, Customer…
Blackstone bus expected to arrive in September
Better late than never? People in the Blackstone neighbourhood will get a long-awaited shuttle bus starting in September 2015. We originally reported on this back in February, when transit officials told…
West end councillors want faster arrival for light rail
(PHOTO: “Take the O” by Payton Chung. Used under a Creative Commons license.) Councillor Shad Qadri says he fully supports a motion put forward by fellow councillor Allan Hubley to look at…
OC Transpo makes major service adjustments June 28
(Photo: “A window on transit in Ottawa” by Jamie McCaffrey. Used under creative commons license.) On Sunday, June 28, new OC Transpo summer schedules begin, along with route improvements and…
LETTER: Bring light rail to Stittsville
Re: Ottawa infrastructure lags behind, says Stittsville transit commissioner I hope now that Stittsville is fortunate enough to have one of our own on the city transit commission that this gent…