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Service changes

Spring 2023 service change banner

Spring service begins Sunday, April 23, 2023

Highlights

  • Routes 12 and 15 will return to their pre-construction routing.
  • Frequency on Line 2 replacement buses and Route 25 will be reduced at certain times on weekdays to reflect seasonal ridership.
  • Route 228 will be adjusted to serve Chapel Hill Station to provide a direct peak-period connection to Blair Station.
  • Rack & Roll continues on all buses!
  • NCC Weekend Bikedays returns on weekends and holiday Mondays.

Holiday service

Service information for the holidays:
Holiday Date Service information
Victoria Day Monday, May 22 Sunday schedule

Schedule adjustments

These adjustments reflect seasonal changes in ridership and improvements to service for our customers. Some trip times will be adjusted throughout the network for more reliable schedules.

Use the Travel Planner or view the route schedules to check if your regular trips are affected.

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Adjustments & improvements Seasonal changes School service

Service adjustments and improvements

The following routes will have runtime adjustments on weekdays and weekends:

Weekdays

  • Frequent Route 40
  • Rapid Route 57
  • Frequent Route 88
  • Local Route 168
  • Local Route 170
  • Local Route 171
  • Connexion Route 231
  • Connexion Route 261
  • Connexion Route 263

Weekends

  • Rapid Route 61
  • Rapid Route 62
  • Rapid Route 63
  • Frequent Route 88

Adjustments will be made to better serve customers and improve service reliability:

Improvements and adjustments
Route Service information
Frequent Route12Limited Local Route15

These routes will return to pre-construction routing and similar schedules to those followed prior to construction detours that began in 2021 (details and map).

  • Route 12: Will operate from Blair Station to Parliament Station seven days per week.
    • Will no longer serve St-Laurent Station.
    • Downtown routing will operate via Elgin and Queen streets instead of Wellington Street.
  • Route 15: Will operate between Blair Station and Gatineau during weekday peak periods.
    • Will no longer operate on weekends, midday, or evening, nor via Blair Road.
Rapid Route75

The weekday 4:07 pm trip from Tunney's Pasture will be extended to end at the Minto Recreation Centre instead of Barrhaven Centre.
Rapid Route97

Frequency between the Ottawa International Airport and Hunt Club Road will be increased to 15 minutes through most of the day.
Rapid Route99

The 3:46 pm trip from École secondaire publique Pierre-de-Blois will be shifted to depart the school at 3:53 pm.
Limited Local Route173

The 8:30 am trip from Fallowfield Station that serves École secondaire publique Pierre-de-Blois will be shifted to start at 8:25 am, to better align with the school's bell time.

The 4:00 pm trip from Barrhaven Centre that serves École secondaire publique Pierre-de-Blois will be shifted to start at 3:55 pm, to better align with the school's bell time.
Connexion Route228

Will be adjusted to serve Chapel Hill Station to provide a direct peak-period connection to Blair Station.
Connexion Route231

Morning trips will be extended to start on Innes Road, west of Frank Bender Street.
Connexion Route261

The 06:56 am trip will be shifted earlier to better accommodate customers traveling downtown for work.

Seasonal changes

Frequency will be reduced in certain time periods on the following routes, to reflect seasonal changes in ridership:

Seasonal changes
Route Service information
Frequent Route25

To reflect reduced seasonal ridership at Carleton University and La Cité:

  • Line 2 replacement bus frequency will be reduced on weekdays to depart every 12 minutes during morning peak period and every 15 minutes at all other times of the day.
  • Route 25 : Weekday frequency will be reduced north of Blair Station. It will depart every 30 minutes between 7:00 am and 9:00 am in the westbound direction, between 5:00 pm and 5:30 pm in the eastbound direction, and during the midday in both directions.
Limited Local Route56Rapid Route57

Route 56: Weekday frequency between Tunney's Pasture Station and The Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus will be reduced to 30 minutes at certain times during peak periods.

Route 57: Weekday frequency will be reduced southbound in the late evening between 11:00 pm and 11:30 pm to 30 minutes.

School service

Improvements and adjustments will be made to school service to better accommodate school-related travel requirements:

School service routes
Service information Route

A.Y. Jackson Secondary School

  • The routing of one morning school trip and one afternoon school trip will be adjusted to bring service closer to students in the Stonehaven Drive / Old Richmond Road area.
 Limited Local Route 161

Earl of March Secondary School

  • The afternoon school trip will be extended to start at Teron Station instead of starting from Terry Fox Station.
 Rapid Route 62

Longfields-Davidson Heights Secondary School

  • A morning school trip will be shifted earlier to better match ridership demand for an earlier arrival time.
 Limited Frequent Route 80

Merivale High School

  • Afternoon service will be adjusted for more suitable bus arrival and departure from the school.
 Limited Local Route 187Limited Local Route 680Limited Local Route 688

Notre Dame High School

  • Afternoon service will be adjusted to better align with school's dismissal time.
 Frequent Route 51Frequent Route 85

École secondaire publique Pierre-de-Blois

  • Both of the afternoon trips from the school will be shifted to arrive.
 Rapid Route 99

St. Francis Xavier High School

  • Two morning trips will be shifted earlier.
  • All afternoon trips will be shifted to arrive earlier.
 Limited Local Route 693

NCC Weekend Bikedays

NCC Weekend Bikedays will resume this spring! Starting May 12 until October 9: every weekend between 10:30 pm Friday and 6:00 am Monday, and between 8:00 am and 12:00 pm on Civic Holidays (May 22, July 1, August 7, September 4 and October 9), vehicles will not be able to access the westbound lane of the Sir John A. MacDonald Parkway.

The following westbound routes will be detoured from Sir John A. MacDonald Parkway between Vimy Place to Carling Avenue during the NCC Bikedays events with minimal impacts to service:

  • Rapid Route 57
  • Rapid Route 61
  • Rapid Route 62
  • Rapid Route 63
  • Rapid Route 74
  • Rapid Route 75
  • Frequent Route 87

Check the Alerts page for more information about this detour.

Read more about NCC Weekend Bikedays
on ncc-ccn.gc.ca/