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OC Transpo

Whether you’re going from Orléans to Barrhaven or downtown Ottawa to Gatineau, OC Transpo can take you.
1500 St. Laurent Boulevard
Ottawa, ON K1G 0Z8
Canada
613.741.4390

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Whether you’re going from Orléans to Barrhaven or downtown Ottawa to Gatineau, OC Transpo can take you. We provide comprehensive transit services to nearly one million people in Ottawa. The OC Transpo fleet has over 1,000 buses and three trains serving our nearly 370,000 daily riders.

OC Transpo’s mandate is to deliver safe, reliable, and courteous service at a reasonable price. Transit use benefits the community by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, traffic congestion, and the requirement for more roads.

Press Releases

O-Payment will allow customers to pay for an adult fare by tapping a credit card or mobile wallet on fare gates at any station or fare readers on an OC Transpo bus.
Sept. 8, 2023
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More than 750 articulated, double-decker and 40-foot buses will be equipped with an operator barrier by the end of August 2021.
April 27, 2021
One gate on the west side of the Rideau Sstation has been set up to accept Visa, Mastercard, as well as smart phones and watches that use Apple Pay or Google Pay loaded with Visa...
Feb. 17, 2021
The Transitway will close from Blair to Hurdman. Route and schedule changes as well as new reserved bus lanes will reduce the impact by taking most riders around the construction...
June 15, 2015

Articles

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OC Transpo bus.
Montgomery County will begin implementing its redesigned network in June while OC Transpo riders will begin using their new routes in April.
March 19, 2025
TransLink
A rendering of TransLink's BRT route.
The funding will be distributed between 2026 and 2036 through the Canada Public Transit Fund and will help the public transit agencies upgrade, replace or modernize its public...
Jan. 28, 2025
CNW Group/Société de transport de Laval
STL bus riders can now pay their bus fare with Interac® Debit, as a contactless payment option, a first in Quebec. The contactless technology simply requires to tap with their physical bank card or mobile phone or wearable device with digital wallet on the payment terminal. This announcement marks the final step of a major research and development project on onboard credit and debit card payment—the first to launch in Canada in 2017.
The Société de transport de Laval becomes the first Quebec transit agency to accept debit card payments for fare, while OC Transpo begins testing new fare gates that will support...
June 20, 2023
City of Ottawa
The government of Canada will provide the city of Ottawa C$350 million (US$260 million) in funding through the Zero Emission Transit Fund to support OC Transpo's transition to a fully zero-emission fleet.
The federal funding will go toward the purchase of 350 zero-emission vehicles and charging infrastructure and assist OC Transpo in meeting its goal of having a fully zero-emission...
Jan. 20, 2023
Transportation Safety Board of Canada
An image showing damage to an O-Train following a September 2021 derailment that TSB determined to be caused by 12 bolts that failed because they were not adequately torqued when installed during refurbishment.
Justice William Hourigan will lead the commission evaluating the procurement, delivery and operations of the line, as well as oversee publication of recommendations from the inquiry...
Dec. 20, 2021
OC Transpo
Municipal and transit stakeholders gathered on Nov. 26 at OC Transpo’s St-Laurent Garage to showcase the transit service’s first four battery-electric buses.
The 40-foot vehicles will enter service in early 2022 and will be housed at the St-Laurent Garage, which was retrofitted to accommodate charging infrastructure for the buses.
Nov. 29, 2021
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson/Twitter
Tunnel construction began on Sept. 25 for the west extension of the Stage 2 LRT project, which includes more than two miles of tunnels.
The west extension of the O-Train Line 1 includes more than 2 miles of tunnels that will be constructed using a cut and cover method.
Sept. 28, 2020

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