Hurdman Station

Hurdman
Transitway station
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Coordinates
Owned by	OC Transpo
Services
Preceding station   OC Transpo   Following station Lees toward Stittsville Route 92 Eastbound Train toward St. Laurent Campus toward Stittsville Route 92 Westbound Lees toward Stittsville Route 96 Eastbound Train toward St. Laurent Campus toward Stittsville Route 96 Westbound Lees toward Bells Corners Route 97 Eastbound Lycée Claudel toward Airport Campus toward Bells Corners Route 97 Westbound Lees toward Tunney's Pasture Route 98 Eastbound Lycée Claudel toward Hawthorne Campus toward Tunney's Pasture Route 98 Westbound Lees toward Lebreton Route 99 Eastbound Lycée Claudel toward Barrhaven Centre Campus toward Lebreton Route 99 Westbound Lees toward Bayshore Route 101 St. Laurent Terminus Lees toward Lebreton Route 106 Lycée Claudel toward Elmvale

Hurdman Station is a station on Ottawa's bus transitway which is presently undergoing substantial renovation to accommodate light rail. Hurdman is one of the transitway's busiest stations, as it is the main hub of the transitway network east of downtown. Hurdman is where the main transitway route from downtown to the west branches off in two directions: one to the east toward Orléans and the other toward South Ottawa. Express buses serving Kanata and Barrhaven have Hurdman Station as the downtown terminus. The station is located just southeast of Hurdman Bridge where the Queensway crosses the Rideau River. It is also located near the intersection of Industrial Avenue and Riverside Drive/Vanier Parkway.

There are connections from Hurdman Station to the nearby neighbourhood of Riverview to the east with a bus-only road connecting to Alta Vista Drive. There are also connections for bicycle users, as Hurdman Station is located very closely to the Rideau River bicycle path.

The station and nearby landmarks Hurdman Park, Hurdman Street, and Hurdman Bridge are named for the early settlers of the region. The station featured a small convenience store which closed with the original station. The site is relatively isolated, being almost completely surrounded by tall grassy meadows, with only a few apartment buildings on nearby Riverside Drive. To the immediate south are two large artificial hills covering a former city landfill.

Hurdman Station, was opened in 1983 as part of the first phase of Ottawa's bus transitway. The original station was closed in September 2015 and has been replaced with a temporary station for the duration of construction of the O-Train's Confederation Line. Demolition of the old station structure was completed in November 2015.

Effective 28 June 2015, the Transitway between Hurdman Station and Blair Station is closed until 2018, meaning routes either end at Blair Station or Hurdman Station, or travel via Ottawa Road 174 to/from downtown. As well, all east-end express routes do not serve St. Laurent Station eastbound toward Orleans, and west-end express/peak routes start at Campus Station in the afternoon.

Service

See also: OC Transpo routes

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Hurdman Station at sunset in wintertime, from the southeast.

The following routes serve Hurdman Station:

Regular Routes
8 9 86B 86C 87 92 96 97 98 101 104 106 118 121 129 146 148 149

Peak-Only Routes
6 40 41 43 99 116A 116B 140 199

Special Events Routes
403 451

School Routes
602

Notes

• Route 8 has some early-morning weekend trips that start/end at Hurdman.
• Routes 41 and 43 are shortened to/from Hurdman and do not go directly downtown.
• Route 86C starts at Hurdman and travels via Viewmount, Merivale, and terminates on Colonnade in the Merivale Acres Business Park.
• Route 87 doesn't operate between Hurdman and Baseline in the late evenings or outside of business hours on weekends.
• Route 92 replaces route 96A in the Stittsville area. This route travels via Tremblay Road to serve the VIA Rail Station and starts/ends at St-Laurent Station.
• Routes 95 and 401 no longer serve Hurdman as of 20 December 2015.
• Route 96 travels via Tremblay Road to serve the VIA Rail Station and starts/ends at St-Laurent Station in the east end.
• Route 98 serves Hurdman Station during selected time periods only.
• Route 106 is extended during overnight hours to/from LeBreton via the Transitway. These trips start/end at the hospital complexes on Smyth Road in the east.
• Route 116A travels via MacFarlane between the Rideau Heights Business Park and Merivale Road.
• Route 116B travels via Antares, Auriga, and West Hunt Club to Merivale Road.
• Routes 129 doesn't operate between Hurdman and Blair on the weekends.
• Routes 129, 199, and 451 travel via Highway 417 between Hurdman and St-Laurent Stations.
• Routes 146 and 148 don't operate between Hurdman and Billings Bridge on the weekends.

External links

• OC Transpo station page
• OC Transpo area map
• Hurdman Station: Area Redevelopment Study