Tunney's Pasture Station

Tunney's Pasture

Coordinates

45°24′13.7″N 75°44′06″W / 45.403806°N 75.73500°WCoordinates: 45°24′13.7″N 75°44′06″W / 45.403806°N 75.73500°W

Owned by

Services

Preceding station	OC Transpo	Following station
Westboro toward Baseline	Route 91	Bayview toward Trim
Westboro toward Stittsville	Route 92	Bayview toward St. Laurent
Westboro toward Kanata North	Route 93	Bayview toward Lebreton
Westboro toward Riverview	Route 94	Bayview toward Millennium
Westboro toward Barrhaven Centre	Route 95	Bayview toward Trim
Westboro toward Stittsville	Route 96	Bayview toward St. Laurent
Westboro toward Bells Corners	Route 97	Bayview toward Airport
Terminus	Route 98	Bayview toward Hawthorne

Tunney's Pasture Station is a stop on the transitway in Ottawa, Ontario. It is located at the Tunney's Pasture government office complex, on Scott Street at Holland Avenue.

The transitway in the area is in a below-grade 'trench' parallel to Scott Street. Each platform has an elevator and stairway to the ground level above; the two sides are connected by an enclosed pedestrian bridge, and the ground-level station area also has platforms for local buses.

Major criminal incident

10 May 2003: An arson at the station inflicted damage estimated at $400 000 to $500 000 CAD. The fire left portions of the station out of service for months.^[1]^[2]

Service

Notes

Route 16 has supplementary trips that start/end at Tunney's Pasture. The trips extended to/from downtown don't enter the station, but are available at the intersection of Scott Street and Holland Avenue.
Routes 87 and 98 don't serve Tunney's Pasture Station in the late evenings Monday-Friday or outside of business hours on the weekend.
Route 98 starts/ends at Lebreton Station on weekdays outside of peak periods.

Gallery

Eastbound view, from upper level, showing transitway below and a building in the Tunney's Pasture government complex.
Another eastbound view, showing the transitway and platforms.
Inside the station, the north elevator and stairways provides access to the westbound transitway platform.
View of station entrance from the corner of Scott Street and Holland Avenue.
Scene of transitway level facing eastbound.
Transitway facing eastbound from platform level.

References

↑ The Ottawa Citizen (11 May 2003). "City/Region". Ottawa Citizen. p. A9. Suspected arsons investigated
↑ "Tunney's Pasture station firebombing update". Ottawa Transit Bulletin (Ottawa Transit Riders Association). July 2003.

External links

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OC Transpo Rapid Transit Routes

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O-Train

Bus Rapid Transit Stations

West	Stittsville Canadian Tire Centre Terry Fox Teron Eagleson Bayshore Pinecrest

Southwest	Nepean Woods Beatrice Barrhaven Centre Marketplace Strandherd Longfields Fallowfield Baseline Iris Queensway

Central	Lincoln Fields Dominion Westboro Tunney's Pasture Bayview Lebreton Bay Kent Bank Metcalfe Mackenzie King Laurier Campus Lees Hurdman

East	Train St. Laurent Cyrville Blair Jeanne d'Arc Place d'Orleans Trim Millennium

Southeast	Lycée Claudel Smyth Riverside Pleasant Park Billings Bridge Heron Walkley Greenboro South Keys Airport Leitrim Riverview

Future	Tallwood

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Tunney's Pasture
Bayview
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Lyon
Parliament
Rideau
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Lees
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Tremblay
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Cyrville
Blair

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