Lees Station

Lees
Transitway station
Coordinates	45°24′59″N 75°40′13″W / 45.41639°N 75.67028°W / 45.41639; -75.67028Coordinates: 45°24′59″N 75°40′13″W / 45.41639°N 75.67028°W / 45.41639; -75.67028
Owned by	OC Transpo
Services
Preceding station   OC Transpo   Following station Campus toward Baseline Route 91 Eastbound Blair toward Trim Campus toward Stittsville Route 92 Eastbound Hurdman toward St. Laurent Campus toward Barrhaven Centre Route 95 Eastbound St. Laurent toward Trim Campus toward Stittsville Route 96 Eastbound Hurdman toward St. Laurent Campus toward Bells Corners Route 97 Eastbound Hurdman toward Airport Campus toward Tunney's Pasture Route 98 Eastbound Hurdman toward Hawthorne Campus toward Lebreton Route 99 Eastbound Hurdman toward Barrhaven Centre Carling toward Bayshore Route 101 Hurdman toward St. Laurent Carling toward Bayshore Route 103 Eastbound Blair toward Place d'Orléans Route 103 Westbound St. Laurent toward Place d'Orléans Campus toward Lebreton Route 106 Hurdman toward St. Laurent

Lees Transitway Station is a station on Ottawa's transitway. It is located south of the Queensway just to the west of the Rideau River. It serves the Lees Avenue region and the Sandy Hill Heights community.

The station has had quite a notorious history for serious incidents. Soon after the station was constructed, coal tar began seeping into the station and it was closed for two months. It was soon discovered that this industrial waste was under much of the Lees Avenue area, necessitating a 12 million-dollar cleanup operation.

The station was also the site of a deadly accident on July 18, 1994 when a 30-tonne transport truck plunged off the Queensway exit ramp into the transitway, killing two women and leaving a nine-month-old with permanent brain damage. The driver was later found guilty of dangerous driving. In July 2003, an eastbound bus approaching the station lost control due to a mechanical breakdown, and slammed hard into the station. No one was seriously injured, but it took months to repair the station.

Effective 28 June 2015, the Transitway between Hurdman Station and Blair Station is closed until 2018, meaning some routes travel via the Queensway and bypass certain stations. As well, new route 91 and all express routes do not serve St. Laurent Station eastbound toward Orleans, and all west-end express/peak routes start at Campus Station.^[1]

Services

The following routes serve Lees Station:

Regular Routes
8* 16 85 101 106

Eastbound Only
86* 87* 91 92* 94* 95 96* 97 98 99 403

Peak Periods Only
6 103

School Routes
602am

NOTES

• Route 5 is available at the corner of Main and Lees.
• Routes 8, 86, 87, 92, 94, and 96 only serve Lees Station before 6 AM and after 7 PM on weekdays, and all day weekends.
• Route 85 doesn't serve Lees Station late evenings or on weekends.
• Route 87 doesn't serve Lees Station late evenings or outside of business hours on weekends.
• Route 106 only serves Lees Station during overnight hours.

References

External links

• Lees station page
• Lees area map