OC Transpo to offer free service on Canada Day as part of summer schedule

An O-Train on Line 1 pulls into Bayview Station in this undated image. (Natalie van Rooy/CTV News Ottawa)

OC Transpo will be offering free service on Canada Day and extending O-Train Line 2 and Line 4 service hours on July 1 and on Sundays during Ottawa Bluesfest.

Transit Services general manager Renée Amilcar outlined the summer service changes in a memo to councillors Tuesday morning, which includes changes to service for major events.

On Canada Day, service will be free all day on OC Transpo buses and O-Train Lines 1, 2 and 4. Amilcar says Line 1 will operate from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m., with enhanced frequency in the evening. Lines 2 and 4 will operate from 7 a.m. to 1 a.m., one hour longer than normal.

Additional buses will supplement service levels “where needed,” Amilcar said.

For Ottawa Bluesfest, service on O-Train Lines 1, 2 and 4 will be extended in the evening on Sundays to end at midnight.

“Line 1 will operate with enhanced frequency in the evening on event days,” Amilcar said. “Additional buses will supplement service levels where needed.”

Amilcar reminds people heading to Bluesfest that transit fares to and from the event are included with your ticket.

Fans with tickets to Redblacks games will also have a transit fare included with the ticket to the game.

OC Transpo summer schedules

Construction adjustments:

• Route 14 St-Laurent will be detoured along Montreal Road and Vanier Parkway to accommodate a watermain replacement project on McArthur Avenue between North River Road and Vanier Parkway
• Route 66 will be detoured off Carling Avenue between Herzberg Road and Moodie Drive

Seasonal service changes

• Amilcar says the 600-series school routes will not run during the summer
• Route 25 will have a minor reduction to reflect reduced ridership levels normally seen on this route during the summer.
• Route 125 to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum and Route 139 to Petrie Island will return to the summer. Amilcar says weekend service to the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum will be provided by an extension on Route 8
• Minor schedule adjustments will be made on Route 110 seven days a week, and on Routes 8, 33, 63, 70, and 74 on Sundays.

The full schedule is available at www.octranspo.com.