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Ride Free to and from Ottawa Bluesfest

Your ticket includes free transit to and from LeBreton Flats

Service is free for Ottawa Bluesfest ticket holders* from 3 hours before the event and 2 hours after.

Show your wristband or pass to your driver. At a station, use the video chat function on ticket machines to get through the fare gate.

Bus and O-Train schedules

Extra buses will be ready for service where needed.

O-Train Lines 1 and 2 will run until midnight on Ottawa Bluesfest Sundays to get you home. Service on Line 1 will be more frequent in the evenings too. 

Map for going to LeBreton Flats.

Travelling to and from LeBreton Flats

During Ottawa Bluesfest, some road closures and delays are expected downtown. No problem! Ditch the car, avoid traffic and parking, and take transit!

Three Park & Ride lots (BowesvilleGreenboro, and Leitrim stations) directly connect to O-Train Line Line1 2Line 2. Many Park & Ride lots across the city connect you to bus service.

To plan your trip:

Getting there

Take O-Train Line 1or a bus to Pimisi Station. Walk up the west-side sidewalk of Booth Street to access the site and join queues to enter LeBreton Flats.

Going to LeBreton Flats

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Going home

Get to the O-Train Line 1 by joining the eastbound queue (to Blair) on the east-side sidewalk of Booth Street, or the westbound queue (to Tunney's Pasture) on the west-side sidewalk. Transfer to Line 2Line 2 at Bayview Station to take the O-Train southbound. Catch a westbound bus for routes 57 Carling Campus, 61 Stittsville, 63 Innovation / Briarbrook, 74 Limebank, or 75 Barrhaven Centre / Cambrian at Pimisi C on Albert Street (north-side).

Going home

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Regular fares will apply to customers travelling to the free family Ottawa 200 celebration programming on Sunday, July 19. Evening ticket holders can ride OC Transpo for free, starting up to three hours before the show and continuing until two hours after it ends.

And don't forget, youth ages 11-18 ride for free on OC Transpo buses, trains and Para Transpo all summer long!