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“New Flyer” Photo by Justin S. Campbell, via Flickr. (Used under a Creative Commons License.) OC Transpo will operate a revised weekday schedule during March Break (March 11 to 15) when schools are closed and many residents are on holidays. ...

“New Flyer” Photo by Justin S. Campbell, via Flickr. (Used under a Creative Commons License.) Filed under “Hmmm”. Some councillors, and Mayor Jim Watson, won’t take the challenge to rely on the bus this week… because of a truly stunning revelation: OC Transpo service sucks. ...

“New Flyer” Photo by Justin S. Campbell, via Flickr. (Used under a Creative Commons License.) There’s a meeting this weekend among some OC Transpo users with the aim of putting together a formal Ottawa transit riders' group. The meeting is Saturday from 1 through 4:30 p. ...

Heather Cloutier shares these photos of two snowmen waiting for the bus, following Ottawa’s first snowfall of the season this past weekend. (Hopefully the bus arrived before they melted.)

October 10 – OC Transpo has revised some routes due to the delayed opening of O-Train Line 1, the Confederation Line. Several routes will be adjusted starting Monday, October 15, to improve connectivity and reduce walking distances. Route 11 – Downtown The downtown loop of Route 11 will be adjusted to improve connections to Route 12 and to rapid and frequent routes on Albert and Slater streets. ...

There once was a time when the only place you could buy a Presto card was at one of OC Transpo’s handful of customer service outlets. No more, as the transit cards are now being sold at many more locations such as Shoppers Drug Mart, Loblaws and Real Canadian Superstore. ...

The City of Ottawa has released a drone video of the Confederation Line to show construction progress as of June 2018. The line is supposed to open in November this year, less than four months away, but that may be up in the air, according to CBC Ottawa: ...

The City of Ottawa would like to remind residents of the following schedule changes for the Canada Day weekend. Client services: Ottawa City Hall and all seven Client Service Centres, including the Government Service Centre located at 110 Laurier Avenue West, will be closed. ...

[caption id=“attachment_69101” align=“aligncenter” width=“1024”] OC Transpo hopes two large projects to bring Trillium Line infrastructure up to date will improve reliability. (Lezumbalaberenjena/Wikimedia Commons/Public domain)[/caption] Taking OC Transpo has certainly changed since I first moved here in 1980. Then I was greeted by buses with 3-4 stairs to get into the bus. ...

_ (press release from the City of Ottawa) _ Mayor Jim Watson, Transit Commission Chair Stephen Blais, Garry Griffin, Shoppers Drug Mart District Manager, and Annalise Czerny, PRESTO’s Executive Vice-President, were at a Shoppers Drug Mart in Barrhaven today to announce that Presto card services will be rolling out to retailers across Ottawa. ...