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Route 98

Ottawa

Route 98 right now

Running: No positions observed; 10:35 a.m.
Cancelled trips now: None reported
Service alerts: 0 confirmed current notices

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Toward Ottawa · LÉPINE/FINDLAY to STATION LYON

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Toward Ottawa · LÉPINE/FINDLAY to STATION LYON

Route and live buses

Service date: October 8, 2026

0 official shapes · 55 stops · 0 vehicle markers

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Where the buses are now

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Service date: October 8, 2026
Official notices: No matching current notice in a healthy feed
Current buses: Cannot be confirmed from the current feed

Today’s schedule

Service date October 8, 2026

Towards Ottawa: 3 scheduled trips
5:00 a.m.–6:22 a.m.: 10 min median scheduled gap

Span and median gap are computed from today’s official GTFS stop_times. They are timetable measures, not observed headways or a frequency guarantee.

Next trips from the ends of the route

These are trip starts. For the time at your stop, open that stop’s departure board.

No upcoming trip start is published in the next four hours.

The realtime prediction feed is unavailable or stale. Timetable times remain labelled as scheduled only.

Buses seen now

The current healthy operator position feed contains no vehicle matched to this route.

Official notices

No matching active notice appears in the current healthy operator feed.

Planned changes

No safely matched planned change is recorded for this route.

These are Otranspo register records, separate from operator alerts. A record is attached only when its route label identifies one operator; ambiguous OC Transpo/STO number matches are withheld.

Evidence checked Oct 8, 10:36 a.m.

Scheduled service and available evidence

Did the scheduled service run?

Open dated evidence

Evidence period: Oct 1, 2026 – Oct 7, 2026

Scheduled trips with cancellation notices

—

No retained notice returned; this does not prove zero cancellations. 1 partial-capture day not counted.

Trips needing investigation

0 of 12 trips with a usable feed window (0%) had no matching position.

These counts may overlap; do not add them. A missing position confirms neither cancellation nor a no-show.

12 with position · 0 to investigate · 3 excluded · 15 scheduled trips

Current feed. No explicit notice for this route in the current feed; this does not guarantee service. Observed: Oct 8, 2026, 10:36 a.m..

Coverage, exclusions and sources

3 scheduled trips were excluded from the position check for feed or identity gaps.

Published position coverage: 12 / 15 (80%). This is not a delivered-service rate. 7 service days in this source.

Timetables retained before the service day: 7 / 7 requested days · 0 missing days.

Historical calculation: Oct 8, 2026, 9:38 a.m.

Method: explicit provider notices, archived trip windows and retained timetables. Predictions and positions alone do not prove that a bus ran or was missed.

Cancellations on this route

What these words mean →

1 partial-capture day not counted.

1 scheduled trips with counted cancellation notices from Thu, Sep 10 to Wed, Oct 7.

Not counted: 0 trips with qualifying later matching vehicle observations and 0 for trips not in that day’s timetable.

Hours with the most cancellations: 5 a.m. (1)

Latest cancelled trips

Thu, Sep 17, scheduled 05:10

A cause is shown only when STO’s own alert for that trip gives one.

Did not come (no bus seen, no notice), last 7 days: none of the trips we could check.

Buses arriving bunched

Bunching and slow spots on every route →

Not measured yet. The daily count has not reached these days, so there is no number to show.

City road work near this route

Road work and event road closures the City of Ottawa has published, measured as near this route’s path. Near is not proof that the bus is detoured: check the operator’s own alerts for that.

Event road closure
Bank at Queen
Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 a.m. to Nov 1, 2026, 5:00 p.m.
Bank traffic disruptions at Queen due to a demonstration, from September 23rd to November 1st between 7:00am and 5:00pm.
about 0 m from the route
City record updated Oct 5, 2026, 6:16 a.m..

A route counts as near when its timetable path passes within 40 m of the City’s mapped closure; a stop counts when it is within 75 m.

Source: City of Ottawa traffic events (road work and closures). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence, City of Ottawa. The City says this list is best effort and may be incomplete. City of Ottawa traffic map ↗

When this route is usually busy

From the load level STO’s buses report, over the last eight weeks. A time is marked usually busy when at least half of the trips with a reading reached standing room or fuller.

No time of day was usually busy in the last eight weeks.

When this route is usually busy	Weekdays	Saturdays	Sundays
Before 6 am	Usually seats13.8% of 80 trips	Not enough readings	Not enough readings
6 to 9 am	Usually seats12.9% of 70 trips	Not enough readings	Not enough readings
9 am to 3 pm	Not enough readings	Not enough readings	Not enough readings
3 to 6 pm	Not enough readings	Not enough readings	Not enough readings
6 to 10 pm	Not enough readings	Not enough readings	Not enough readings
After 10 pm	Not enough readings	Not enough readings	Not enough readings

Based on 56 computed days.

Source: the occupancy status in STO’s public real-time vehicle feed, which STO sets from each bus’s load sensor (seats available under 60% full, standing room under 90%, full above 90%).
Each trip counts once per time of day, at the highest load it reported.
Reports of an empty bus are left out, because older records could not tell an empty bus from one with no sensor.
A time of day needs at least 12 trips on at least 4 different days before anything is shown. Holidays are counted with their day of the week.

What does the evidence show?

Predictions against the timetable

96.4%

of eligible provider predictions were within five minutes of the timetable.

These are provider predictions, not independently measured arrivals. Missing evidence is not counted as on-time service.

Predictions in the source: 3,026
Weekdays with evidence: 20
Evidence window: Sep 9, 2026 – Oct 7, 2026

Calculated: Oct 8, 2026

1 partial-capture day not counted.

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The hours we have evidence for

Share of predictions within five minutes of the timetable. Only eligible hours are shown; an absent hour does not mean zero.

98%5 a.m.1,308 predictions · 10 days
85%6 a.m.182 predictions · 10 days

What about time of day?

2 hourly cohorts meet the thresholds of 30 predictions and 5 service days. Hourly thresholds are assessed separately from the route-wide aggregate.

Improvement or decline requires comparable periods. This single result cannot establish a trend.

Open history, reliability and route analysis

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How route 98 has been running

A short summary of what we know. We say so when we cannot answer a question.

Bottom line

Provider predictions were usually close to schedule in this dated sample.

96 in 100 eligible predictions were within 5 minutes of the timetable · 3,026 predictions checked

Prediction sample size: Larger sample

Based on 3,026 eligible provider predictions over 20 measured days, from Sep 9, 2026 to Oct 7, 2026.

Updated Oct 8, 2026, 9:32 a.m.

Where and when did predictions differ repeatedly?

These are repeated prediction-to-timetable differences, not independently measured service failures. They use the same eligible predictions as the result above, but group by stop rather than hour, so the lists need not match line for line.

No repeated prediction-difference period has cleared the evidence threshold yet.

No current official notice matches this route.

Prediction differences by stop

We do not yet have enough route-by-stop history to name a recurring problem stop. Rider reports are used as leads, not proof.

Check every trip and date

Open a time period to see each service day, scheduled trip, feed gap, observed public vehicle ID, and the exact counts behind this summary.

What riders want to know

Is any trip cancelled right now?: No live cancellation answerSTO’s live trip-update feed did not answer this check. That is a feed gap. It does not mean zero cancellations, and it is not proof of a cancellation. Open the evidence to see the schedule, retained explicit cancellation notices, and every labelled data gap.
Possible no-shows after checking feed gaps?: 0 of 12 checked trips need a closer look0 of 12 trips with enough public-feed evidence had no matching position over 7 days. 3 of 15 scheduled trips were excluded because the feed record was incomplete. These are cases to investigate, not confirmed no-shows.
How did provider predictions differ from the timetable?: At the 95th percentile, the predicted difference was 4.4 min (positive means later; negative means earlier)96 in 100 eligible provider predictions were within 5 minutes of the timetable; actual arrivals were not measured here.
What wait did provider predictions imply?: No route-level result meets the evidence threshold yet. This does not mean gaps did not happen.

Schedule change check

Published schedule: before and after

This compares the current retained official schedule with the prior retained version. Schedule changes are facts about what was planned; they do not prove that a trip ran.

Current published schedule began September 27, 2026

Selected service day from each published schedule

We check the first Monday after the new schedule began and the Monday one week earlier. Every figure comes from the retained official GTFS versions named below.

At least one selected date uses added or removed calendar-date service. Treat this as holiday or special-service context, not ordinary weekday growth.

Before

Service date checked: September 21, 2026

Scheduled trips: 0
Distinct scheduled stops: 0
Distinct published paths: 0
Published service span: —–—

Feed fingerprint: a1fd9699f40664cc · 1a4ea4f3-91a8-43db-8c05-e3b01b5bf24c

New schedule

Service date checked: September 28, 2026

Scheduled trips: 3
Distinct scheduled stops: 55
Distinct published paths: 1
Published service span: 5:00 a.m.–6:22 a.m.

Operator calendar-date records: 1 added · 0 removed

Feed fingerprint: a7e1f22955084828 · ca455c71-c30a-4e4d-8b72-2709212731cd

Did service improve after the change?

We will compare settled arrivals for the 14 days before and after the change. We publish the comparison only after both sides have at least 7 service days and 200 arrivals.

Before

September 13, 2026 – September 26, 2026

97.8 in 100 arrivals were within 5 minutes

Average: 0.7 min from schedule

Slowest 5 in 100: about 3.5 min late

1,521 · 10 days

New schedule

September 27, 2026 – October 7, 2026

94.6 in 100 arrivals were within 5 minutes

Average: 1.2 min from schedule

Slowest 5 in 100: about 5.3 min late

1,013 · 7 days

Checksums let anyone verify which retained timetable produced the counts. A changed count does not identify a cause, cancellation, operator decision, or passenger impact.

How this route is judged: Regular all-stop route

We compare the last eligible provider prediction for each scheduled arrival with the official schedule. These are not independently measured arrivals. A result needs at least 200 eligible predictions. Within 5 minutes is the rider-facing target used here.

What this data cannot prove

The public feed does not provide dependable passenger counts or passed-up-rider events. A missing position does not by itself prove a cancellation, no-show, short turn or cause.

See the definitions, thresholds and evidence order

Official current feed: explicit cancellations, skipped stops and active notices.
Matched observations: vehicle positions and settled predictions tied to the official schedule.
Official timetable: what was planned, kept separate from what was observed.
Rider and operator reports: leads about routes, times and places to investigate, not numeric proof by themselves.

Provisional results, published evidence

How did predictions compare with the timetable?

Each hour compares the last eligible provider prediction for a scheduled arrival with the timetable. “Within 5 minutes” describes that prediction difference, not a measured arrival or proof that a bus ran.

Evidence window: September 9, 2026 to October 7, 2026

Within 5 minutes of schedule: 96.4%
Eligible predictions checked: 3,026
Weekdays with data: 20
95th-percentile predicted delay: 4.4 min late

Patterns by hour (2)

Patterns by hour (2)
Hour	On time	Median	95th percentile	Evidence
05:00	97.9%	0.5 min late	3.6 min late	1,308 · 10 days
06:00	85.2%	0.6 min late	8.2 min late	182 · 10 days

No repeated pattern below 70% is yet established across at least three service days.

Scheduled bus, but not observed in realtime

12 / 12 scheduled trips published at least one position across 4 service days (100.0%).

05:000 / 12 trips without a position100.0%

This is not a confirmed no-show. A missing position can mean a cancelled or missed bus, but it can also mean an unassigned trip ID or an operator-feed gap. Otranspo publishes the gap because it matters to riders while keeping the conclusion honest.

Prediction check: the last eligible provider prediction no earlier than ten minutes before the scheduled arrival, counted once per trip, stop and scheduled Toronto calendar date. It is compared with the timetable, not an independently measured arrival. Trip-position check: the timetable kept before each service day, matched to recorded positions. Exact IDs are preferred; an OC timetable suffix is matched only to one trip on the same route and date with an overlapping time window. Missing timetables, ambiguous matches and feed gaps stay labelled; they are not confirmed no-shows. Sources and limitations.

Dated service

Trips scheduled that day

The timetable, notices and what the live feed says are shown apart. Seeing a bus on the map does not prove you can board it.

Service day

October 7, 2026 October 6, 2026 October 5, 2026 October 4, 2026 October 3, 2026 October 2, 2026 October 1, 2026

October 7, 2026 · 3 trips in the retained timetable · retained notices; capture coverage unverified

In short: 3 with a matched position · 0 with no matching position (to investigate) · 0 with an unknown outcome.

05:00– 06:02
Trip sto:62730194Vehicle position matchedFirst / last feed position: 5:09 a.m. EDT / 6:03 a.m. EDT; not actual start or end times.
05:10– 06:12
Trip sto:62731261Vehicle position matchedFirst / last feed position: 5:07 a.m. EDT / 6:12 a.m. EDT; not actual start or end times.
05:20– 06:22
Trip sto:62731389Vehicle position matchedFirst / last feed position: 5:21 a.m. EDT / 6:23 a.m. EDT; not actual start or end times.

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Evidence behind this pageOpen the definition, method, sources, dates, coverage, and known limits.

What is being shown

The current public route group, its published schedule variants and stop patterns, current operations, and reliability from matching eligible final provider predictions where available.

How it was produced

1 current GTFS route record variants are grouped by operator and public route number. Stop patterns remain tied to their published variant; aggregated reliability records are not merged into an invented percentile.

Computed or assembled: October 8, 2026 at 9:32 a.m.
Sample: 3,026 eligible settled provider predictions across 1 matching reliability records.
Coverage: 1 published stop patterns containing 55 stop calls are available on this page.
Method or data version: last-prediction-within-ten-minutes-v1; ca455c71-c30a-4e4d-8b72-2709212731cd; a7e1f22955084828484cca5e8f1ebff9e785c70984ad5dd93b872a5d64ace6e4

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Limits to keep in mind

Schedule variants can apply on different dates. A grouped route is not a claim that every pattern operates today.
Accessibility fields report only what the operator publishes; an unknown value is not confirmation of access.

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Rider evidence

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Emergency: call 9-1-1. Check official OC Transpo or STO notices before travelling.

Source: currently imported STO GTFS. Check the Alerts panel for current official notices and each stop page for observed departures.

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Route 98 right now

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Toward Ottawa · LÉPINE/FINDLAY to STATION LYON

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LÉPINE/FINDLAY to STATION LYON · 55 stops

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What about time of day?

Where and when did predictions differ repeatedly?

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Cancellations on this route

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Buses arriving bunched

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When this route is usually busy

What does the evidence show?

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What about time of day?

Where and when did predictions differ repeatedly?

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What riders want to know

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New schedule

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New schedule

How did predictions compare with the timetable?

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