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Ward 17 · Ottawa

CAPITAL

Councillor: Shawn Menard

40
Routes: 192
Stops: 72.5%
within five minutes

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Municipality: City of Ottawa, Ontario
Geographic unit: Official City of Ottawa municipal ward 17: CAPITAL
Boundary and vintage: City ward layer · effective not published · imported August 4, 2026
Official civic contacts: Shawn Menard · 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: 40 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.

19 of 24 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 7, late by the timetable 08:00 to 23:00, 4.1 min late.

20 of 24 routes here had something measurable to report.

Arrivals within five minutes, by hour of day, across the 24 routes graded here, last 14 days

00:00: 90.1% of arrivals on time, 22,031 arrivals, typically 0.9 min late
01:00: 89.2% of arrivals on time, 8,290 arrivals, typically 1.1 min late
02:00: 82.6% of arrivals on time, 3,870 arrivals, typically 1.4 min late
03:00: 81.9% of arrivals on time, 3,659 arrivals, typically 1.5 min late
04:00: 88.8% of arrivals on time, 10,537 arrivals, typically 1.3 min late
05:00: 91.3% of arrivals on time, 30,081 arrivals, typically 1.1 min late
06:00: 89.4% of arrivals on time, 63,529 arrivals, typically 1.3 min late
07:00: 82% of arrivals on time, 81,487 arrivals, typically 1.7 min late
08:00: 67.6% of arrivals on time, 84,113 arrivals, typically 3 min late
09:00: 72.7% of arrivals on time, 83,131 arrivals, typically 2.4 min late
10:00: 79.9% of arrivals on time, 81,135 arrivals, typically 1.7 min late
11:00: 78.4% of arrivals on time, 78,497 arrivals, typically 1.9 min late
12:00: 74.8% of arrivals on time, 79,440 arrivals, typically 2.3 min late
13:00: 74.3% of arrivals on time, 74,421 arrivals, typically 2.2 min late
14:00: 73% of arrivals on time, 75,280 arrivals, typically 2.2 min late
15:00: 64.4% of arrivals on time, 77,372 arrivals, typically 3.3 min late
16:00: 59% of arrivals on time, 79,323 arrivals, typically 3.9 min late
17:00: 61.7% of arrivals on time, 81,668 arrivals, typically 3.5 min late
18:00: 70.8% of arrivals on time, 76,649 arrivals, typically 2.5 min late
19:00: 73.1% of arrivals on time, 62,029 arrivals, typically 2.4 min late
20:00: 73.8% of arrivals on time, 56,103 arrivals, typically 2.6 min late
21:00: 77.2% of arrivals on time, 50,021 arrivals, typically 2.2 min late
22:00: 80.2% of arrivals on time, 43,694 arrivals, typically 2 min late
23:00: 85.2% of arrivals on time, 34,559 arrivals, typically 1.5 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 timetable7 56 6 19 18 10 111 9 42 110 5 92 85 44 41 112 39 49 4519 routes	08:00 to 23:00 … 01:00	4.1 min late … 3.8 min late	More running time
ProblemOne hour collapses111 92 56 5 110 112 41 42 9 49 4511 routes	09:00 … 02:00	45% … 66%	Operations, not the timetable
ProblemUnreliable105 452 routes	17:00 · 09:00	30.4 min swing · 20.5 min swing	Operations, not the timetable
ProblemRunning early92 442 routes	14:00 · 01:00	1.5 min early · 2.9 min early	Less running time, or holding points

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Current service inside this boundary

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Evidence & sources

Imported municipal polygon · 40 boundary vertices · City of Ottawa ward boundaries · imported Aug 4, 2026

Route

━ 38 bus routes═ 2 train lines● 192 stops

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O-Train evidence

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How CAPITAL 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 495 route-hours. 7 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

77.8%

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

Route-hours where the timetable is short

108of 495

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

Route-hours running early

2of 495

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

Running time a short hour needs

3.8min

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

99.6%

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

Route-hours that are unpredictable

2of 495

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

How far behind a bad trip runs

25.4min

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.

40
Routes: 192
Stops: 10
Washrooms: 9
Water locations

Named ward measure72.5%within five minutes

Observed reliability

72.5% within five minutes. 210,975 of 291,163 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: 210,975
Settled arrivals: 291,163
Observed days: 20 weekdays

How this compares

Ranked 16 of 22 measured wards. 5.1 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

24 of the 36 routes serving this ward have enough evidence to compare. Least punctual first.

Route	Within five minutes	Arrivals checked
56	57.8%	41,665
7	61.0%	148,744
18	62.4%	67,101
19	63.5%	54,133
6	68.3%	133,359
9	71.6%	33,241
111	72.3%	79,665
110	72.4%	80,554
10	72.4%	78,079
42	74.8%	38,307

12 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
609	20	15	5	75.0%	Day 7 30
628	50	39	11	78.0%	Day 7 30
92	200	160	40	80.0%	Day 7 30
698	50	40	10	80.0%	Day 7 30
647	30	24	6	80.0%	Day 7 30
697	25	20	5	80.0%	Day 7 30
646	20	16	4	80.0%	Day 7 30
689	20	16	4	80.0%	Day 7 30
606	10	8	2	80.0%	Day 7 30
617	10	8	2	80.0%	Day 7 30
645	10	8	2	80.0%	Day 7 30
613	5	4	1	80.0%	Day 7 30
110	344	280	64	81.4%	Day 7 30
98	889	725	164	81.6%	Day 7 30
5	834	683	151	81.9%	Day 7 30
111	863	710	153	82.3%	Day 7 30
56	637	524	113	82.3%	Day 7 30
48	616	507	109	82.3%	Day 7 30
49	214	177	37	82.7%	Day 7 30
41	770	639	131	83.0%	Day 7 30
6	1,006	836	170	83.1%	Day 7 30
45	904	751	153	83.1%	Day 7 30
90	767	637	130	83.1%	Day 7 30
88	1,043	868	175	83.2%	Day 7 30
19	483	402	81	83.2%	Day 7 30
18	498	416	82	83.5%	Day 7 30
10	759	636	123	83.8%	Day 7 30
9	472	397	75	84.1%	Day 7 30
44	802	675	127	84.2%	Day 7 30
39	1,124	949	175	84.4%	Day 7 30
7	931	787	144	84.5%	Day 7 30
85	889	751	138	84.5%	Day 7 30
42	420	355	65	84.5%	Day 7 30
105	678	574	104	84.7%	Day 7 30
112	482	410	72	85.1%	Day 7 30
304	2	2	0	100.0%	Day 7 30

Routes serving the ward

40 scheduled routes

Bus routes · 38

Train lines · 2

Public washrooms (City data) 10

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Drinking water (City data) 9

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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 11:18 p.m.
Sample: 291,163 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:487e34db9334398f0d6e47dcf175d13f28f953d156b0e01eebdbcb25bd45bab6

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