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Westboro station

Coordinates: 45°23′47.5″N 75°45′08″W / 45.396528°N 75.75222°W / 45.396528; -75.75222
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Westboro
Ottawa Transitway station
General information
Coordinates45°23′47.5″N 75°45′08″W / 45.396528°N 75.75222°W / 45.396528; -75.75222
Owned byOC Transpo
Services
Preceding station OC Transpo Following station
Dominion Route 57 Tunney's Pasture
Terminus
Dominion Route 61
Route 62
Dominion
toward Innovation
Route 63
Dominion
toward Riverview
Route 74
Dominion
toward Cambrian
Route 75

Westboro is a station on the transitway in Ottawa, Ontario. It is located in the Westboro neighbourhood, on Scott Street between Athlone and Tweedsmuir avenues.

The transitway in the area is in a below-grade 'trench' parallelling Scott Street. Each platform has an elevator and stairway to the ground level above; the two sides are connected by an enclosed pedestrian bridge, and the ground-level station area also has platforms for local buses.

It is within walking distance of the Minto Metropole, Ottawa's tallest residential building.

History

January 2019 accident

On 11 January 2019, an accident occurred at Westboro station. Double decker bus 8155, an Alexander-Dennis Enviro500 bus purchased by OC Transpo in 2017, was driven into the lower platform at the station running as route 269 Bridlewood, ejecting several passengers from the top floor of the bus, and killing three people (one on the platform).[1] The Transitway was closed between Tunney's Pasture and Lincoln Fields as a result of the accident.

Service

The following routes serve Westboro station as of October 6 2019:[2]

O-Train
 E1  Shuttle Express
 R1   R2  O-Train replacement bus routes
 98   39  Rapid routes
 N75  Night routes
 40   11  Frequent routes
 55   162  Local routes
 284  Connexion routes
 405  300s: Shopper routes
400s: Event routes
600s: School routes
Additional info:
Stop Routes
1A Transitway West  57   58   61   62   63   64   66 
1B Transitway South  73   74   75   82   83   84   87   164   404 
2A Transitway East  57   58   61   62   63   64   66   73   74   75   82   83   84   87   164 
3A Local West  16   50   153 
4A Local East  50   153 

References

  1. ^ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/bus-crash-westboro-station-ottawa-1.4975385
  2. ^ "Westboro | OC Transpo". Retrieved December 6, 2019.