The City of Ottawa plans to invest $4.5 billion in a new “needs-based” transit network that aims to improve public transit ...

In 1983, OC Transpo introduced bus rapid transit (BRT). It started with dedicated bus lanes through the city’s centre, and eventually included separate busways. At its peak, more than 55 stops ...

Coun. Tim Tierney says Ottawa needs a southern ring road to relieve congestion on the Queensway, instead of a controversial ...

A little over a decade ago, much of what’s now the thriving communities of Bradley Estates, Trailsedge and Avalon Encore was ...

Ottawa was the first city in the world to transition from a bus rapid transit system to light rail in response to bumper-to-bumper buses, the transit service’s acting general manager Richard ...

Canada’s Slow and Troubled Path to Rapid Transit. ... Ian Austen was educated in Toronto, lives in Ottawa and has reported about Canada for The New York Times for the past 16 years.

OC Transpo buses line up along a street in Ottawa on Thursday, April 16, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld OTTAWA — It didn't feel like the glory days at the time, climbing onto a crowded bus ...