Transit action for Bank Street is actually possible
In the Centretown Buzz...
By Simon Callsen
Apr. 8 2025
While many have given up on the bus, many of us have not, or don’t have another option.
Routes 6 and 7 are two vital bus routes that combined move more people than any bus route in the city. In OC Transpo ridership data from January to September 2024 (collected via an MFIPPA request to the City of Ottawa), the two routes were consistently in the top five in numbers of weekday bus riders, and individually were just behind first-place route 88.
​Despite how important these routes are, it’s rare that these buses ever arrive on time when you need it, or even show up at all. Too often, they are stuck in traffic.
If our goal is to regain the trust of transit riders in Ottawa, we need to fix this...
Bank Street transit that works for all
In the Glebe Report...
By Sam Chiappetta
Apr. 11 2025
As the warm spring air began its seasonal return, I was happy to see that restaurants had started to open their windows and Bank Street was teeming with people heading to a Charge’s game or to visit one of the many shops we are lucky to have right at the heart of our neighbourhood. However, I also saw a street filled with bumper-to-bumper congestion, cars and pedestrians weaving dangerously around each other, and cramped buses stuck in heavy traffic. And this was no extraordinary occasion: as a popular destination and major transit corridor, Bank Street is often uncomfortably packed. Undesirable already, this situation is set to worsen as Ottawa’s population continues to grow and we get closer to Lansdowne 2.0, with its expected negative effects on traffic unaddressed...
