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Ottawa transit rider information

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One region, two networks

Ottawa and Gatineau should work like one trip for residents while OC Transpo and STO remain unmistakably separate. We compare the same facts to learn from each network, never to manufacture a ranking.

Compare without conflating

Same method, distinct identity and provenance.

Ottawa

OC Transpo

119
Routes
5,584
Stops
24
Civic areas
1,362
Built cycling network (km)
20
Observed weekdays

76.8% within five minutes
3,323,006 settled arrivals; a provisional result that strengthens continuously.

177 washrooms and 112 water locations — City of Ottawa data.

Gatineau

STO

103
Routes
1,876
Stops
19
Civic areas
401
Built cycling network (km)
7
Observed weekdays

82.5% within five minutes
673,892 settled arrivals; a provisional result that strengthens continuously.

32 washrooms and 21 water points — community OSM mapping, not City-verified.

The regional network, per the imported timetables

  • 7,460 stops
  • 222 routes
  • 177 public washrooms (City data)
  • 112 locations with drinking water (City data) — places, not spouts

Wards

24 wards imported, with provenance and effective dates.

See the ward cardsSee Gatineau district report cards

Observed reliability

Observations are published now: 20 weekdays. They remain provisional until the 20-weekday baseline (0 still accumulating) and update hourly.

Explore routes, hours, and trips without a position

How on-time is measured — and why the number fell

Until 4 August 2026 we counted every prediction the agency archived. A single arrival is predicted dozens of times, and 42.23% of those records carried a delay of exactly zero — not because the bus was on time, but because the agency republishes the timetable for a vehicle it has not yet located.

We now count one observation per arrival: the last prediction made within ten minutes of the scheduled time. Measured both ways over the same archive, that is 86.7% against 77.4%. The figure fell because the method was corrected, not because service got worse.

Scope: buses only. The agency publishes no realtime data for the O-Train, so no rail line appears in the archive at all. At 25 of the 61 stations, served by both bus and rail, the figure describes only part of what stops there.

Read the versioned correction record

Our data

Every City dataset we use is recorded in the registry with its licence, cadence and last import. The map’s Data panel renders that registry live.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Ottawa.