Tunney's Pasture station

Tunney's Pasture
Ottawa Transitway station
Tunney's Pasture with transitway in the foreground
Coordinates	45°24′14″N 75°44′06″W / 45.40389°N 75.73500°WCoordinates: 45°24′14″N 75°44′06″W / 45.40389°N 75.73500°W
Owned by	OC Transpo
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 is a station 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

The following routes serve Tunney's Pasture Station:
6 16 60 61 62 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 77 86B 86C 87 91 92 93 94 95 96 96C 97 98 105 150 151 159 164 176 261 262 263 283 403

AM ONLY
96D

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

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  Eastbound view, from upper level, showing transitway below and a building in the Tunney's Pasture government complex.

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  Another eastbound view, showing the transitway and platforms.

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  Inside the station, the north elevator and stairways provides access to the westbound transitway platform.

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  View of station entrance from the corner of Scott Street and Holland Avenue.

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  Scene of transitway level facing eastbound.

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  Transitway facing eastbound from platform level.

References

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

External links

• OC Transpo station page
• OC Transpo area map with location of main buildings of Tunney's Pasture