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Ward 8 · Ottawa

COLLEGE

Councillor: Laine Johnson

58
Routes: 331
Stops: 77.7%
within five minutes

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Municipality: City of Ottawa, Ontario
Geographic unit: Official City of Ottawa municipal ward 8: COLLEGE
Boundary and vintage: City ward layer · effective not published · imported August 4, 2026
Official civic contacts: Laine Johnson · 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: 58 public route records with a stop inside this boundary · operators: OC Transpo
Transit evidence vintage: Timetable import: not published · reliability window: Aug 24, 2026 – Sep 22, 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.

18 of 30 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 53, late by the timetable 14:00 to 19:00, 4.2 min late.

Best here: route 84, consistently on time, 100%.

22 of 30 routes here had something measurable to report.

Arrivals within five minutes, by hour of day, across the 30 routes graded here, last 14 days

00:00: 91.6% of arrivals on time, 23,291 arrivals, typically 0.8 min late
01:00: 92.3% of arrivals on time, 7,291 arrivals, typically 0.5 min late
02:00: 83.5% of arrivals on time, 4,220 arrivals, typically 0.6 min late
03:00: 90.2% of arrivals on time, 2,625 arrivals, typically 0.1 min early
04:00: 93.2% of arrivals on time, 7,520 arrivals, typically 0.6 min late
05:00: 89.9% of arrivals on time, 29,376 arrivals, typically 1.4 min late
06:00: 91.1% of arrivals on time, 64,948 arrivals, typically 1.1 min late
07:00: 81.9% of arrivals on time, 84,078 arrivals, typically 1.8 min late
08:00: 68.6% of arrivals on time, 83,964 arrivals, typically 2.8 min late
09:00: 74.4% of arrivals on time, 83,142 arrivals, typically 2.3 min late
10:00: 81.6% of arrivals on time, 81,091 arrivals, typically 1.6 min late
11:00: 81.2% of arrivals on time, 80,599 arrivals, typically 1.5 min late
12:00: 80.1% of arrivals on time, 80,783 arrivals, typically 1.7 min late
13:00: 80% of arrivals on time, 75,530 arrivals, typically 1.6 min late
14:00: 78.3% of arrivals on time, 76,104 arrivals, typically 1.8 min late
15:00: 71.2% of arrivals on time, 77,313 arrivals, typically 2.4 min late
16:00: 64.4% of arrivals on time, 83,607 arrivals, typically 3.2 min late
17:00: 66.7% of arrivals on time, 84,942 arrivals, typically 2.9 min late
18:00: 74.2% of arrivals on time, 80,044 arrivals, typically 2.2 min late
19:00: 78.4% of arrivals on time, 66,408 arrivals, typically 1.9 min late
20:00: 76.4% of arrivals on time, 62,788 arrivals, typically 2.3 min late
21:00: 81.2% of arrivals on time, 57,334 arrivals, typically 1.9 min late
22:00: 84.8% of arrivals on time, 46,697 arrivals, typically 1.5 min late
23:00: 89.7% of arrivals on time, 35,623 arrivals, typically 0.9 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 timetable53 11 80 57 81 111 62 110 82 68 73 161 74 112 60 117 187 15818 routes	14:00 to 19:00 … 07:00	4.2 min late … 3.6 min late	More running time
ProblemOne hour collapses53 57 111 68 110 112 82 74 62 73 60 66 18713 routes	08:00 … 18:00	45% … 20%	Operations, not the timetable
ProblemUnreliable82 117 583 routes	16:00 … 14:00	33.8 min swing … 21.1 min swing	Operations, not the timetable
StrengthConsistently on time841 routes	06:00, 07:00, 08:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00	100%	Keep what works
ProblemRunning early87 802 routes	22:00 · 01:00	1.6 min early · 1.8 min early	Less running time, or holding points

Map & current service

Current service inside this boundary

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Evidence & sources

Imported municipal polygon · 23 boundary vertices · City of Ottawa ward boundaries · imported Aug 4, 2026

Route

━ 58 bus routes● 331 stops

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How COLLEGE 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 541 route-hours. 8 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

85.6%

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

Route-hours where the timetable is short

76of 541

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 541

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

Running time a short hour needs

3.6min

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

99.4%

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

Route-hours that are unpredictable

3of 541

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

How far behind a bad trip runs

29.4min

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.

58
Routes: 331
Stops: 7
Washrooms: 5
Water locations

Named ward measure77.7%within five minutes

Observed reliability

77.7% within five minutes. 290,591 of 374,103 settled OC Transpo arrivals at stops inside this ward were on time across 21 observed weekdays, from Aug 24, 2026 to Sep 22, 2026.

On-time arrivals: 290,591
Settled arrivals: 374,103
Observed days: 21 weekdays

How this compares

Ranked 10 of 22 measured wards. At the city median of 77.7%.

Highest: ward 22 at 85.6%. Lowest: ward 21 at 56.6%.

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

Which routes are pulling this ward down

30 of the 58 routes serving this ward have enough evidence to compare. Least punctual first.

Route	Within five minutes	Arrivals checked
11	67.7%	131,773
53	67.9%	94,713
57	69.3%	75,476
62	71.6%	62,902
81	71.7%	104,860
111	72.1%	82,877
110	72.2%	84,521
80	73.8%	134,445
73	75.7%	28,655
187	77.5%	3,181

28 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
305	2	0	2	0.0%	Day 7 30
301	2	1	1	50.0%	Day 7 30
117	45	35	10	77.8%	Day 7 30
187	50	39	11	78.0%	Day 7 30
84	60	47	13	78.3%	Day 7 30
73	335	265	70	79.1%	Day 7 30
60	350	279	71	79.7%	Day 7 30
66	95	76	19	80.0%	Day 7 30
256	85	68	17	80.0%	Day 7 30
265	70	56	14	80.0%	Day 7 30
275	65	52	13	80.0%	Day 7 30
277	65	52	13	80.0%	Day 7 30
262	45	36	9	80.0%	Day 7 30
261	40	32	8	80.0%	Day 7 30
266	40	32	8	80.0%	Day 7 30
667	40	32	8	80.0%	Day 7 30
263	35	28	7	80.0%	Day 7 30
279	35	28	7	80.0%	Day 7 30
680	35	28	7	80.0%	Day 7 30
668	30	24	6	80.0%	Day 7 30
688	25	20	5	80.0%	Day 7 30
565	20	16	4	80.0%	Day 7 30
646	20	16	4	80.0%	Day 7 30
158	20	16	4	80.0%	Day 7 30
691	15	12	3	80.0%	Day 7 30
687	10	8	2	80.0%	Day 7 30
610	10	8	2	80.0%	Day 7 30
617	10	8	2	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
686	5	4	1	80.0%	Day 7 30
189	429	349	80	81.4%	Day 7 30
110	344	280	64	81.4%	Day 7 30
87	615	504	111	82.0%	Day 7 30
74	712	585	127	82.2%	Day 7 30
58	443	364	79	82.2%	Day 7 30
111	863	710	153	82.3%	Day 7 30
88	1,043	863	180	82.7%	Day 7 30
80	772	639	133	82.8%	Day 7 30
63	651	540	111	82.9%	Day 7 30
161	433	359	74	82.9%	Day 7 30
68	911	756	155	83.0%	Day 7 30
11	797	662	135	83.1%	Day 7 30
57	601	500	101	83.2%	Day 7 30
53	635	530	105	83.5%	Day 7 30
67	398	334	64	83.9%	Day 7 30
61	752	633	119	84.2%	Day 7 30
62	497	419	78	84.3%	Day 7 30
82	486	410	76	84.4%	Day 7 30
81	468	395	73	84.4%	Day 7 30
75	1,259	1,065	194	84.6%	Day 7 30
168	476	405	71	85.1%	Day 7 30
112	482	411	71	85.3%	Day 7 30
116	287	247	40	86.1%	Day 7 30
404	3	3	0	100.0%	Day 7 30
303	2	2	0	100.0%	Day 7 30
406	1	1	0	100.0%	Day 7 30

Routes serving the ward

58 scheduled routes

Bus routes · 58

Train lines · 0

No train line has a stop in this ward in the imported schedule.

Public washrooms (City data) 7

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Drinking water (City data) 5

The public ward snapshot publishes the count but not the individual locations for this ward. No locations are being invented.

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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 23, 2026 at 9:17 a.m.
Sample: 374,103 settled arrivals across 21 observed weekdays support the reliability result.
Method or data version: ward-counts-v1 + ward-stop-settled-arrivals-purpose-aware-v3
Source checksum: ward-reliability:5c157364c7ac5519fe2584c9cc9283c6ed3caddb5a40ace783211cd178427d0c

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