Terry Fox Station &
Park & Ride

FACTS    

 Terry Fox Station

Location

Terry Fox Transitway Station is located adjacent to Kanata City Walk Centrum Shopping Centre and Highway 417 in the heart of Kanata. The new station serves as the transit hub for a community of 106,000 residents that is expected to grow to 172,000 by 2014. Terry Fox station provides convenient transit services in a modern, accessible facility.

Construction Facts
Project cost  $11.8 million
Province of Ontario funding one-third of costs
Completion date  February 21, 2005
Design Consultant McCormick Rankin Corporation
Architect David S. McRobie Architects Inc.
General Contractor  R. W. Tomlinson Ltd.
Project Partners City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario and Kanata City Walk Centrum

Rare Geological Find

Rock FormationA unique rock formation is exposed next to Terry Fox Station. The white-to buff-coloured sandstone belongs to the Nepean Formation — a sedimentary unit formed more than 460 million years ago. 

Professor Allan Donaldson of Carleton University reported that “Such a remarkable preservation of primitive organic structures is extremely rare in sandstones.” 

The site has been granted recognition as an “Area of Natural Scientific Interest” by the Province of Ontario.
  

Station Features

  • Park & Ride lot with 515 spaces

  • Multi-modal station serving Greyhound inter-city bus service

  • Gateway convenience store selling transit passes and tickets — coming soon!

  • Departures display screen, pay phones, emergency call boxes, printed timetables, benches and closed circuit TV

  • Shelters with push-button heaters and emergency call boxes

  • Night Stop service after 9 p.m.

  • Enhanced lighting levels and emergency power

  • Landscaping to improve aesthetics — spring 2005

Accessibility logoAccessibility Features

  • Large-format posted schedules and bus stop flags NEW!

  • Bus stop information in Braille and tactile lettering NEW!

  • Barrier-free sensor doors NEW!

  • Accessible benches and pedestrian crossings

  • Platform edge tactile demarcation

  • Push button emergency call boxes and direct-dial info line

Transit Info

  • Approximately 5,500 passenger boardings and alightings a day

  • Average of 300 buses per day

  • Frequent Transitway service to downtown on route 96

  • Crosstown service on route 118

  • Local Kanata service provided by routes 160, 161, 165 and 658

  • Direct service to the Scotiabank Place on route 404