Before
Service date checked: August 31, 2026
- Scheduled trips
- 133
- Distinct scheduled stops
- 135
- Distinct published paths
- 5
- Published service span
- 04:30–25:54
Feed fingerprint: ecc28a3727bcaff4 · 345fd07d-fb05-4eaa-8ec2-3daf8b7fcbe9
Otranspo
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Route
7
OC Transpo
Carleton ↔ St-Laurent
All imported trips are marked accessible.Imported schedule valid through: Oct 4, 2026
Verdict
What this route needs
Timetable short by 3.1 to 3.8 min in 15 hours of the day.
Buses leave about 2.1 min late and lose another 3 min along the route.
Unreliable 01:00, 19:00: a bad trip runs 26.5 min behind a normal one.
Gaps All measured hours: waits run 2.9 min longer than the timetable promises.
Fix: 3 to 4 min more running time on 1,289 trips. Needs 30 more buses.
This changes running time only. It does not move departure times, rewrite headways, or check that a driver’s shift still fits, and a scheduler has to.
- 00:00: 77% of arrivals on time, 1,265 arrivals, typically 2.5 min late
- 01:00: 86.1% of arrivals on time, 827 arrivals, typically 0.6 min late. Unreliable: a bad trip runs far behind a normal one.
- 02:00: not enough data
- 03:00: not enough data
- 04:00: not enough data
- 05:00: 100% of arrivals on time, 678 arrivals, typically 1.4 min late
- 06:00: 85.7% of arrivals on time, 1,677 arrivals, typically 1.5 min late
- 07:00: 74.5% of arrivals on time, 2,430 arrivals, typically 2.7 min late
- 08:00: 67.5% of arrivals on time, 1,760 arrivals, typically 3.1 min late
- 09:00: 75.3% of arrivals on time, 1,859 arrivals, typically 2.2 min late
- 10:00: 63% of arrivals on time, 1,936 arrivals, typically 3.5 min late
- 11:00: 68.1% of arrivals on time, 2,569 arrivals, typically 3.1 min late
- 12:00: 59.9% of arrivals on time, 2,325 arrivals, typically 3.5 min late
- 13:00: 58.4% of arrivals on time, 2,398 arrivals, typically 3.9 min late
- 14:00: 58.6% of arrivals on time, 2,360 arrivals, typically 4 min late
- 15:00: 58.9% of arrivals on time, 2,274 arrivals, typically 3.9 min late
- 16:00: 54% of arrivals on time, 1,932 arrivals, typically 4.2 min late
- 17:00: 58.4% of arrivals on time, 1,700 arrivals, typically 4.2 min late
- 18:00: 63.2% of arrivals on time, 1,832 arrivals, typically 3.3 min late
- 19:00: 57.6% of arrivals on time, 1,810 arrivals, typically 3.7 min late. Unreliable: a bad trip runs far behind a normal one.
- 20:00: 50.3% of arrivals on time, 1,116 arrivals, typically 4.9 min late
- 21:00: 65% of arrivals on time, 956 arrivals, typically 3 min late
- 22:00: 52.2% of arrivals on time, 1,128 arrivals, typically 4.7 min late
- 23:00: 64.3% of arrivals on time, 1,255 arrivals, typically 3.6 min late
- 90% or more on time
- 80 to 90% on time
- under 80% on time
- not enough data
- unreliable: a bad trip runs 20 min or more behind a normal one
| What | When | Measured | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| ProblemLate by the timetable | 08:00 · 10:00 to 00:00 | 3.1 min late · 3.8 min late | More running time |
| ProblemUnreliable | 01:00 · 19:00 | 22 min swing · 26.5 min swing | Operations, not the timetable |
| ProblemLong gaps on a frequent route | All measured hours | 2.9 min extra wait | Manage the headway |
Measurements
- Late by the timetable · 10:00 to 00:00
- medianDelaySeconds 230
- spreadSeconds 848.5
- observations 25,591
- hoursAffected 14
- suggestedRunningTimeChangeMinutes 3.8
- Unreliable · 19:00
- medianDelaySeconds 224
- spreadSeconds 1,587
- observations 1,810
- hoursAffected 1
- suggestedRunningTimeChangeMinutes 3.7
- Late by the timetable · 08:00
- medianDelaySeconds 185
- spreadSeconds 445
- observations 1,760
- hoursAffected 1
- suggestedRunningTimeChangeMinutes 3.1
- Long gaps on a frequent route · All measured hours
- excessWaitSeconds 172.5
- scheduledWaitSeconds 362
- excessSharePct 47.7
- matchedArrivals 1,445
- stopCount 134
- Unreliable · 01:00
- medianDelaySeconds 38
- spreadSeconds 1,319
- observations 827
- hoursAffected 1
- suggestedRunningTimeChangeMinutes 0.6
08:00 68→7108:00 59→6210:00 47→5110:00 46→5011:00 50→5411:00 50→5412:00 53→5712:00 52→5613:00 56→6013:00 54→5814:00 58→6214:00 49→5315:00 61→6515:00 57→6116:00 55→5916:00 54→5817:00 54→5817:00 57→6118:00 50→5418:00 48→5219:00 44→4819:00 45→4920:00 44→4820:00 46→5021:00 51→5521:00 46→5022:00 48→5222:00 47→5123:00 45→4923:00 45→49
Route check
How route 7 is doing
A plain-language summary of the strongest evidence we have. We say when the data cannot answer a question.
Bottom line
Service is unreliable often enough to affect riders.
68 in 100 arrivals were within 5 minutes of schedule · 61,574 arrivals checkedConfidence in this summary: High
Based on 61,574 arrivals over 20 weekdays, from Aug 9, 2026 to Sep 8, 2026.
Updated Sep 8, 2026, 2:32 a.m.
Where and when does it keep going wrong?
These are repeated patterns, not one bad day or an unverified rider report. They are measured the same way as the verdict above, over the same arrivals, but they are counted per stop rather than per hour, so the two lists need not match line for line.
- 8 p.m.–9 p.m.: 50 in 100 arrivals were more than 5 minutes early or late (1,116 arrivals over 9 days).
- 10 p.m.–11 p.m.: 48 in 100 arrivals were more than 5 minutes early or late (1,128 arrivals over 7 days).
- 4 p.m.–5 p.m.: 46 in 100 arrivals were more than 5 minutes early or late (1,932 arrivals over 7 days).
- 7 p.m.–8 p.m.: 42 in 100 arrivals were more than 5 minutes early or late (1,810 arrivals over 11 days).
1 current notice affects this route
- • Detour: Routes 7, 10, 48, 111 during Campus Avenue closure (Carleton University)
Problem places
- BANK / LISGAR
57 in 100 arrivals were more than 5 minutes early or late (468 arrivals over 24 days).
Open this stop - BANK / GLOUCESTER
56 in 100 arrivals were more than 5 minutes early or late (476 arrivals over 24 days).
Open this stop - BANK / SOMERSET W
55 in 100 arrivals were more than 5 minutes early or late (475 arrivals over 24 days).
Open this stop - BANK / GILMOUR
55 in 100 arrivals were more than 5 minutes early or late (470 arrivals over 24 days).
Open this stop
These are route-specific settled arrivals. They identify a repeated location and time difference, but do not prove the cause.
Check every trip and date
Open a time period to see each service day, scheduled trip, feed gap, observed public vehicle ID, and the exact counts behind this summary.
What riders want to know
- Is any trip cancelled right now?
- 0 of 12
- Possible no-shows after checking feed gaps?
- 484 of 873 checked trips need a closer look
- How late does this route get?
- The slowest 5 in 100 were more than about 15.5 min late
- Do buses bunch or leave long gaps?
- 8.9 min average predicted wait
Checks trips starting at route endpoints in the next 4 hours. This is not a historical cancellation rate.
484 of 873 trips with enough public-feed evidence had no matching position over 7 days. 49 of 922 scheduled trips were excluded because the feed record was incomplete. These are cases to investigate, not confirmed no-shows.
68 in 100 arrivals were within 5 minutes of schedule.
2.9 min beyond the scheduled wait, based on 1,445 arrivals at 134 high-frequency stops over 4 days.
Schedule change check
Fall schedule: before and after
This compares the official schedule that ended with the one that started August 30. Schedule changes are facts about what was planned; they do not prove that a trip ran.
Current published schedule began September 4, 2026
What the official notice says about this route
The City’s public summary did not name this route. The feed comparison below can still show a changed timetable, but it cannot tell us why it changed.
Read the official August 30 service-change notice →One comparable weekday from each published schedule
We use the first Monday after the new schedule began and the Monday one week earlier. Every figure comes from the retained official GTFS versions named below.
New schedule
Service date checked: September 7, 2026
- Scheduled trips
- 124
- Distinct scheduled stops
- 135
- Distinct published paths
- 4
- Published service span
- 05:44–24:28
Feed fingerprint: e0b417f2ea03fcf0 · 37ff8dfc-21cc-48c3-9eba-fc0d2e50b2ad
Did service improve after the change?
We will compare settled arrivals for the 14 days before and after the change. We publish the comparison only after both sides have at least 7 service days and 200 arrivals.
Still collecting: before has 31,768 arrivals over 12 days; after has 5,650 arrivals over 4 days. No improvement or decline is claimed yet.
Checksums let anyone verify which retained timetable produced the counts. A changed count does not identify a cause, cancellation, operator decision, or passenger impact.
How this route is judged: Regular all-stop route
We compare observed arrivals with the official schedule. A result needs at least 200 arrivals. Within 5 minutes is the rider-facing target used here.
What this data cannot prove
The public feed does not provide dependable passenger counts or passed-up-rider events. A missing position does not by itself prove a cancellation, no-show, short turn or cause.
See the definitions, thresholds and evidence order
- Official current feed: explicit cancellations, skipped stops and active notices.
- Matched observations: vehicle positions and settled predictions tied to the official schedule.
- Official timetable: what was planned, kept separate from what was observed.
- Rider and operator reports: leads about routes, times and places to investigate, not numeric proof by themselves.
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Live route map
Where the buses are now
Fresh vehicle positions appear on the route below. A marker stops moving when the evidence runs out. We do not invent movement.
Route and live buses
The line is the official route. Dots show published stops, buses seen now and stops named in current notices.
0 official shapes · 135 stops · 0 vehicle markers
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Markers move between GPS fixes using measured progress along the published route. They pause after one measured reporting interval, on a measured standstill, or when evidence becomes stale.
Repeated problem stops: PARLIAMENT B, BANK / SLATER, BANK / GLOUCESTER, BANK / LISGAR, BANK / SOMERSET W and 7 more. These are highlighted from route-specific settled arrivals with at least 60 observations over 3 days; the pattern does not prove a cause.
Today’s schedule
Service date September 8, 2026
- Towards Carleton
- 62 scheduled trips
- 6:00 a.m.–1:33 a.m. (next day)
- 15 min median scheduled gap
- Towards Rideau
- 3 scheduled trips
- 4:30 a.m.–5:55 a.m.
- 30 min median scheduled gap
- Towards Rideau
- 1 scheduled trip
- 9:04 p.m.–9:28 p.m.
- Scheduled gap unavailable because fewer than two distinct trips start
- Towards St-Laurent
- 67 scheduled trips
- 5:09 a.m.–1:54 a.m. (next day)
- 15 min median scheduled gap
Span and median gap are computed from today’s official GTFS stop_times. They are timetable measures, not observed headways or a frequency guarantee.
Next trips from the ends of the route
These are trip starts. For the time at your stop, open that stop’s departure board.
Towards Rideau
Starts at ST-LAURENT D
Timetable only. No usable prediction is available for this trip.
Towards Rideau
Starts at ST-LAURENT D
Timetable only. No usable prediction is available for this trip.
Towards St-Laurent
Starts at RIDEAU B
Timetable only. No usable prediction is available for this trip.
Towards Rideau
Starts at ST-LAURENT D
Timetable only. No usable prediction is available for this trip.
Showing 4 of 12 trips. Open a stop for its full departure board.
Buses seen now
The current healthy operator position feed contains no vehicle matched to this route.
Official notices
- Read notice →
Detour: Routes 7, 10, 48, 111 during Campus Avenue closure (Carleton University)
Timing not published by the operator
Planned changes
No safely matched planned change is recorded for this route.
These are Otranspo register records, separate from operator alerts. A record is attached only when its route label identifies one operator; ambiguous OC Transpo/STO number matches are withheld.
Evidence checked Sep 8, 3:19 a.m.
Provisional results, published evidence
When is this route reliable?
Every hour below is backed by this route’s settled arrivals. “On time” means no more than five minutes early or late, so a bus that leaves very early counts as a failure for the waiting rider.
Evidence window: August 9, 2026 to September 8, 2026
- Within 5 minutes of schedule
- 67.5%
- Arrivals checked
- 61,574
- Weekdays with data
- 20
- How late the worst 5 in 100 were
- 15.5 min late
Patterns by hour (22)
| Hour | On time | Median | Worst 5 in 100 | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 77.0% | 2.5 min late | 11 min late | 1,265 · 6 days |
| 01:00 | 86.1% | 0.6 min late | 22.6 min late | 827 · 7 days |
| 04:00 | 91.8% | 1.2 min late | 5.2 min late | 147 · 4 days |
| 05:00 | 100.0% | 1.4 min late | 4.3 min late | 678 · 6 days |
| 06:00 | 85.7% | 1.5 min late | 9 min late | 1,677 · 8 days |
| 07:00 | 74.5% | 2.7 min late | 9.2 min late | 2,430 · 7 days |
| 08:00 | 67.5% | 3.1 min late | 10.5 min late | 1,760 · 7 days |
| 09:00 | 75.3% | 2.2 min late | 14.6 min late | 1,859 · 10 days |
| 10:00 | 63.0% | 3.5 min late | 15.6 min late | 1,936 · 8 days |
| 11:00 | 68.1% | 3.1 min late | 18.7 min late | 2,569 · 9 days |
| 12:00 | 59.9% | 3.5 min late | 17.7 min late | 2,325 · 9 days |
| 13:00 | 58.4% | 3.9 min late | 19.9 min late | 2,398 · 11 days |
| 14:00 | 58.6% | 4 min late | 15.7 min late | 2,360 · 10 days |
| 15:00 | 58.9% | 3.9 min late | 15.6 min late | 2,274 · 7 days |
| 16:00 | 54.0% | 4.2 min late | 15.8 min late | 1,932 · 7 days |
| 17:00 | 58.4% | 4.2 min late | 19.5 min late | 1,700 · 10 days |
| 18:00 | 63.2% | 3.3 min late | 17.7 min late | 1,832 · 10 days |
| 19:00 | 57.6% | 3.7 min late | 30.2 min late | 1,810 · 11 days |
| 20:00 | 50.3% | 4.9 min late | 17 min late | 1,116 · 9 days |
| 21:00 | 65.0% | 3 min late | 14.3 min late | 956 · 6 days |
| 22:00 | 52.2% | 4.7 min late | 18.7 min late | 1,128 · 7 days |
| 23:00 | 64.3% | 3.6 min late | 22.4 min late | 1,255 · 7 days |
15 hourly block(s) are below 70% across at least three service days: a repeated pattern, not one bad day.
Scheduled bus, but not observed in realtime
389 / 922 scheduled trips published at least one position across 5 service days (42.2%).
- 14:0040 / 52 trips without a position23.1%
- 20:0026 / 38 trips without a position31.6%
- 16:0038 / 58 trips without a position34.5%
- 23:0018 / 28 trips without a position35.7%
- 13:0037 / 58 trips without a position36.2%
- 10:0034 / 54 trips without a position37.0%
This is not a confirmed no-show. A missing position can mean a cancelled or missed bus, but it can also mean an unassigned trip ID or an operator-feed gap. Otranspo publishes the gap because it matters to riders while keeping the conclusion honest.
Arrival check: the last prediction within ten minutes of arrival, counted once per trip, stop and service date. Trip check: the timetable kept before each service day, matched to recorded positions. Exact IDs are preferred; an OC timetable suffix is matched only to one trip on the same route and date with an overlapping time window. Missing timetables, ambiguous matches and feed gaps stay labelled; they are not confirmed no-shows. Sources and limitations.
See all stops and route patterns
Stops and stations
7 official stop patterns
Each row below is one exact stop order published in the official schedule. Short turns and alternate destinations stay separate.
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Towards Carleton: ST-LAURENT D to CARLETON A
65 stops · 619 imported trips
Scheduled from Sep 4, 2026 to Oct 4, 2026
Published weekly days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
12 official service records
3 added dates and 23 removed dates
- View stops and calendar →
Towards Carleton: RIDEAU A to CARLETON A
25 stops · 146 imported trips
Scheduled from Sep 4, 2026 to Oct 4, 2026
Published weekly days: Monday, Saturday, Sunday
7 official service records
3 added dates and 22 removed dates
- View stops and calendar →
Towards Rideau: ST-LAURENT D to RIDEAU A
41 stops · 15 imported trips
Scheduled from Sep 4, 2026 to Oct 4, 2026
Published weekly days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
5 official service records
0 added dates and 1 removed date
- View stops and calendar →
Towards Rideau: CARLETON A to RIDEAU B
30 stops · 145 imported trips
Scheduled from Sep 4, 2026 to Oct 4, 2026
Published weekly days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
12 official service records
3 added dates and 23 removed dates
- View stops and calendar →
Towards St-Laurent: CARLETON A to ST-LAURENT C
71 stops · 623 imported trips
Scheduled from Sep 4, 2026 to Oct 4, 2026
Published weekly days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
12 official service records
3 added dates and 23 removed dates
- View stops and calendar →
Towards St-Laurent: RIDEAU B to ST-LAURENT C
42 stops · 19 imported trips
Scheduled from Sep 4, 2026 to Oct 4, 2026
Published weekly days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
7 official service records
1 added date and 6 removed dates
- View stops and calendar →
Towards St-Laurent: ST-LAURENT / DUNBARTON to ST-LAURENT C
13 stops · 2 imported trips
Scheduled from Sep 4, 2026 to Oct 4, 2026
Published weekly days: Saturday
2 official service records
1 added date and 5 removed dates
Official feed version 37ff8dfc-21cc-48c3-9eba-fc0d2e50b2ad
Source checksum e0b417f2ea03fcf035ed795c07b47461157b81b0c43d43639094105ed66b0a4a
Evidence behind this pageOpen the definition, method, sources, dates, coverage, and known limits.
What is being shown
The current public route group, its published schedule variants and stop patterns, current operations, and matching observed reliability where available.
How it was produced
1 current GTFS route record variants are grouped by operator and public route number. Stop patterns remain tied to their published variant; aggregated reliability records are not merged into an invented percentile.
Evidence dates
- Collected or observed
- Computed or assembled
- Sample
- 61,574 settled arrivals across 1 matching reliability records.
- Coverage
- 7 published stop patterns containing 287 stop calls are available on this page.
- Method or data version
- last-prediction-within-ten-minutes-v1; 37ff8dfc-21cc-48c3-9eba-fc0d2e50b2ad; e0b417f2ea03fcf035ed795c07b47461157b81b0c43d43639094105ed66b0a4a
Sources
Limits to keep in mind
- Schedule variants can apply on different dates. A grouped route is not a claim that every pattern operates today.
- Accessibility fields report only what the operator publishes; an unknown value is not confirmation of access.
Rider evidence
Community reports
Signals below are moderated community aggregates, not official operator notices or reliability scores.
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Emergency: call 9-1-1. Check official OC Transpo or STO notices before travelling.
Source: currently imported OC Transpo GTFS. Check the Alerts panel for current official notices and each stop page for observed departures.