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Ward 15 · Ottawa

KITCHISSIPPI

Councillor: Jeff Leiper

44
Routes: 195
Stops: 71.4%
within five minutes

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Municipality: City of Ottawa, Ontario
Geographic unit: Official City of Ottawa municipal ward 15: KITCHISSIPPI
Boundary and vintage: City ward layer · effective not published · imported August 4, 2026
Official civic contacts: Jeff Leiper · Councillor · source check is older than the publication threshold · source checked August 4, 2026 · official City contact source
Mark Sutcliffe · Mayor · source check is older than the publication threshold · source checked August 4, 2026 · official City contact source
Relevant scheduled service: 44 public route records with a stop inside this boundary · operators: OC Transpo
Transit evidence vintage: Timetable import: not published · reliability window: Aug 23, 2026 – Sep 21, 2026

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Verdict

What would fix transit here

Worked out from the routes that serve this ward. Each item names the route, when it happens, and what would change it.

21 of 27 show a repeated lateness pattern consistent with insufficient scheduled running time. A scheduler should test a running-time scenario; labour, fleet, recovery and transfer impacts are not established here.

Worst here: route 12, late by the timetable 08:00 to 23:00, 4.5 min late.

Best here: route 18, observed-position lower bound, 100%.

23 of 27 routes here had something measurable to report.

Arrivals within five minutes, by hour of day, across the 27 routes graded here, last 14 days

00:00: 90.2% of arrivals on time, 23,331 arrivals, typically 0.9 min late
01:00: 89.3% of arrivals on time, 7,362 arrivals, typically 0.8 min late
02:00: 85.5% of arrivals on time, 4,253 arrivals, typically 0.5 min late
03:00: 89.7% of arrivals on time, 2,402 arrivals, typically 0.1 min early
04:00: 94.1% of arrivals on time, 7,226 arrivals, typically 0.7 min late
05:00: 94.2% of arrivals on time, 20,395 arrivals, typically 1.1 min late
06:00: 89.5% of arrivals on time, 54,786 arrivals, typically 1.2 min late
07:00: 80.7% of arrivals on time, 72,699 arrivals, typically 1.8 min late
08:00: 64.6% of arrivals on time, 77,846 arrivals, typically 3.2 min late
09:00: 71.8% of arrivals on time, 79,683 arrivals, typically 2.5 min late
10:00: 78.9% of arrivals on time, 78,075 arrivals, typically 1.9 min late
11:00: 77.1% of arrivals on time, 76,362 arrivals, typically 2 min late
12:00: 74.4% of arrivals on time, 76,610 arrivals, typically 2.2 min late
13:00: 75% of arrivals on time, 76,335 arrivals, typically 1.9 min late
14:00: 73% of arrivals on time, 77,030 arrivals, typically 2.3 min late
15:00: 63.7% of arrivals on time, 81,579 arrivals, typically 3.3 min late
16:00: 59% of arrivals on time, 87,757 arrivals, typically 3.9 min late
17:00: 61.9% of arrivals on time, 82,653 arrivals, typically 3.5 min late
18:00: 71.3% of arrivals on time, 75,373 arrivals, typically 2.4 min late
19:00: 73.6% of arrivals on time, 58,097 arrivals, typically 2.3 min late
20:00: 72.1% of arrivals on time, 53,974 arrivals, typically 2.7 min late
21:00: 76.7% of arrivals on time, 51,974 arrivals, typically 2.4 min late
22:00: 81.4% of arrivals on time, 44,646 arrivals, typically 1.7 min late
23:00: 87.9% of arrivals on time, 35,874 arrivals, typically 1.1 min late

90% or more on time
80 to 90% on time
under 80% on time
not enough data

What	When	Measured	Scenario or next investigation
ProblemLate by the timetable12 53 11 51 56 80 14 57 81 62 85 86 13 82 73 74 60 28STO 18STO 58STO 6621 routes	08:00 to 23:00 … 01:00	4.5 min late … 4.9 min late	More running time
ProblemUnreliable13 82 62 584 routes	16:00 to 18:00 … 14:00	22.5 min swing … 20.8 min swing	Operations, not the timetable
ProblemOne hour collapses53 57 56 86 12 14 51 82 62 13 60 73 28STO 66 18STO15 routes	08:00 … 18:00	45% … 40%	Operations, not the timetable
ProblemRunning early66 87 803 routes	06:00 … 01:00	1 min early … 1.5 min early	Less running time, or holding points
StrengthObserved-position lower bound18STO 28STO2 routes	All measured hours	100%	Keep what works
CaveatCoverage gap58STO1 routes	All measured hours	97%	More observation, not a service change

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Evidence & sources

Imported municipal polygon · 18 boundary vertices · City of Ottawa ward boundaries · imported Aug 4, 2026

Route

━ 42 bus routes═ 2 train lines● 195 stops

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O-Train evidence

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How KITCHISSIPPI is doing

Two different failures hide inside one on-time percentage, and they have opposite fixes. These separate them. Each figure is a share of the route-hours this site measured well enough to speak for, and the count it is out of is shown beside it.

Measured over 496 route-hours. 6 more were observed too thinly to count, and are excluded rather than assumed good.

Scheduling

Whether the timetable describes the trip that is actually made. A route late by the same amount every day is not unreliable, it is mis-scheduled, and every operator is driving a schedule nobody can keep.

Who can fix it: A service planner
What it costs: Cost unavailable until fleet, labour, recovery and transfer effects are tested.

Timetable matches the trip

76.6%

Hours where the middle arrival is within three minutes late and one minute early of the timetable.

Route-hours where the timetable is short

113of 496

Hours where the middle arrival is three minutes late or worse. Each is a candidate for a running-time rewrite.

Route-hours running early

3of 496

Hours where buses typically leave early. Riders who arrive on time can still watch one go.

Running time a short hour needs

3.9min

For a typical short hour, the minutes a planner would add.

Operations

Whether a bad trip is close to a normal one. A route on time on average but wildly variable has a timetable that is right and something else that is not. Padding the schedule here makes every rider’s trip longer while the bad trips stay bad.

Who can fix it: Operations, and often the road itself
What it costs: Cost unavailable until the operational cause and remedy are established.

A bad trip is close to a normal one

99%

Hours where the worst trips run less than twenty minutes behind the normal one.

Route-hours that are unpredictable

5of 496

Hours where they run twenty minutes or more behind it. Adding running time does not fix these.

How far behind a bad trip runs

21.9min

For a typical unpredictable hour, how far behind a bad trip runs.

Service, per the imported timetable

A readable view of scheduled transit, observed reliability, and public services in this ward.

44
Routes: 195
Stops: 7
Washrooms: 7
Water locations

Named ward measure71.4%within five minutes

Observed reliability

71.4% within five minutes. 173,348 of 242,618 settled OC Transpo arrivals at stops inside this ward were on time across 20 observed weekdays, from Aug 23, 2026 to Sep 21, 2026.

On-time arrivals: 173,348
Settled arrivals: 242,618
Observed days: 20 weekdays

How this compares

Ranked 17 of 22 measured wards. 6.2 points below the city median of 77.6%.

Highest: ward 22 at 85.7%. Lowest: ward 21 at 56.5%.

Only wards whose evidence meets the publication threshold are ranked. Same window and same method for each.

Which routes are pulling this ward down

27 of the 41 routes serving this ward have enough evidence to compare. Least punctual first.

Route	Within five minutes	Arrivals checked
13	55.4%	11,750
56	57.8%	41,665
12	62.5%	142,235
14	65.5%	104,258
51	66.8%	66,120
53	67.7%	91,556
11	68.0%	127,218
28	68.4%	3,687
57	69.4%	72,720
62	71.3%	61,125

14 more routes here are not ranked: school, express, shopper or event service, whose schedule result does not compare the same way.

Vehicle visibility to investigate

The current summary uses seven days. For every route, you can also open yesterday, the last 7 days, or the last 30 days and inspect the day, scheduled trip, excluded feed gaps, and every observed public vehicle ID. An absence does not prove a vehicle fault or operator decision.

Route	Scheduled trips	With a position	Without a matched position	Coverage	History
13	335	250	85	74.6%	Day 7 30
66	95	75	20	78.9%	Day 7 30
73	335	265	70	79.1%	Day 7 30
566	135	107	28	79.3%	Day 7 30
60	350	279	71	79.7%	Day 7 30
256	85	68	17	80.0%	Day 7 30
265	70	56	14	80.0%	Day 7 30
277	65	52	13	80.0%	Day 7 30
275	65	52	13	80.0%	Day 7 30
262	45	36	9	80.0%	Day 7 30
266	40	32	8	80.0%	Day 7 30
261	40	32	8	80.0%	Day 7 30
279	35	28	7	80.0%	Day 7 30
263	35	28	7	80.0%	Day 7 30
563	10	8	2	80.0%	Day 7 30
562	10	8	2	80.0%	Day 7 30
561	10	8	2	80.0%	Day 7 30
74	712	584	128	82.0%	Day 7 30
87	615	504	111	82.0%	Day 7 30
56	637	524	113	82.3%	Day 7 30
86	619	512	107	82.7%	Day 7 30
80	772	640	132	82.9%	Day 7 30
63	651	540	111	82.9%	Day 7 30
12	1,000	830	170	83.0%	Day 7 30
57	601	500	101	83.2%	Day 7 30
11	797	664	133	83.3%	Day 7 30
53	635	529	106	83.3%	Day 7 30
58	443	369	74	83.3%	Day 7 30
14	763	640	123	83.9%	Day 7 30
67	398	334	64	83.9%	Day 7 30
61	752	632	120	84.0%	Day 7 30
81	468	395	73	84.4%	Day 7 30
85	889	751	138	84.5%	Day 7 30
62	497	420	77	84.5%	Day 7 30
75	1,259	1,066	193	84.7%	Day 7 30
82	486	412	74	84.8%	Day 7 30
51	453	384	69	84.8%	Day 7 30
58	75	73	2	97.3%	Day 7 30
18	35	35	0	100.0%	Day 7 30
28	30	30	0	100.0%	Day 7 30
404	3	3	0	100.0%	Day 7 30
405	1	1	0	100.0%	Day 7 30

Routes serving the ward

44 scheduled routes

Bus routes · 42

Train lines · 2

Public washrooms (City data) 7

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Drinking water (City data) 7

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A ward-level inventory of scheduled transit, public washrooms, drinking-water locations, and observed OC Transpo bus arrivals at stops inside the ward.

How it was produced

Current imported records are assigned by point-in-polygon to the sourced ward boundary. Reliability uses one settled arrival per trip, stop, and service date in the latest 28 completed service days. On time is within ±5 minutes, with publication thresholds of 20 observed weekdays and 500 arrivals.

Imported: August 4, 2026 at 10:43 a.m.
Computed or assembled: September 22, 2026 at 6:17 a.m.
Sample: 242,618 settled arrivals across 20 observed weekdays support the reliability result.
Method or data version: ward-counts-v1 + ward-stop-settled-arrivals-purpose-aware-v3
Source checksum: ward-reliability:c07b18aae7716efa1011753269ac283d59843ea4e236991420c475e765cbac09

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