Hurdman station

Hurdman is a station on Ottawa's O-Train Confederation Line, and bus rapid transit (BRT) system, transitway.[1]

Hurdman
O-Train station
Platform at Hurdman station, looking eastbound
LocationOttawa, Ontario
Canada
Coordinates45°24′44″N 75°39′46″W
Owned byOC Transpo
PlatformsSide platforms
Tracks2
Bus stands6
Construction
ParkingNo
Bicycle facilitiesYes
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Station code560# 3023
History
Opened1983
Rebuilt2015–2019
Services
Preceding station OC Transpo Following station
Lees
toward Tunney's Pasture
 Line 1 Tremblay
toward Blair
Lycée Claudel
toward Hospital
 Route 45 Terminus
Lycée Claudel
toward Airport
 Route 97
Lycée Claudel
toward Hawthorne
 Route 98
Lycée Claudel
toward Barrhaven Centre
 Route 99

Location

The station is located just southeast of Hurdman Bridge where Highway 417 crosses the Rideau River. It is also located near the intersection of Industrial Avenue and Riverside Drive/Vanier Parkway.

There are connections from Hurdman Station to the nearby neighbourhood of Riverview to the east with a bus-only road connecting to Alta Vista Drive. There are also connections for bicycle users, as Hurdman Station is located very closely to the Rideau River bicycle path.

The station and nearby landmarks Hurdman Park, Hurdman Road, and Hurdman Bridge are named for the early settlers of the region. The station featured a small convenience store which closed with the original station. The site is relatively isolated, being almost completely surrounded by protected green space, with a few high-rise buildings on adjacent Riverside Drive. To the immediate south are two large artificial hills covering a former city landfill.

Transitway

Hurdman Station was opened in 1983 as part of the first phase of Ottawa's bus rapid transitway. It was one of the transitway's busiest stations. Previously, it was the station where the main transitway route from downtown to the west branched off in two directions: one to the east toward Orléans and the other toward South Ottawa. Connexion routes serving Kanata and Barrhaven used to have Hurdman Station as the downtown terminus before September 2013.

The original station was closed in September 2015 and was replaced with a temporary station for the duration of construction of the O-Train's Confederation Line. Demolition of the old station structure was completed in November 2015.

It fully reopened on September 14, 2019, when Confederation Line service began. It remains the terminus of the transitway to South Ottawa, as well as serving local lines.

Layout

Hurdman is an elevated side platform station; a large concourse is located at ground level and contains the ticket barrier, as well as fare-paid zone access to the Transitway terminal loop, allowing transfer between buses and the train without needing to show a transfer. Additional stairwells at the western end of the platforms give direct access to the Transitway terminal.

The station's artwork, Coordinated Movement by Jill Anholt, is a curved sculpture suspended along the station access opposite the ticket barrier.[2]

Service
Hurdman station from the southeast in 2005
Hurdman station from the same vantage point in 2019
See also: OC Transpo routes

The following routes serve Hurdman station as of October 6 2019:[3]

Key
O-Train
 98   39  Rapid routes
 40   11  Frequent routes
 55   173  Local routes
 298  Connexion routes
 406  300s: Shopper routes
400s: Event routes
600s: School routes
Stop Routes
East O-Train
West O-Train
A Night Routes  N45   N97 
B Rail Replacement and School Routes  609   613   645   R-1 
C South  40   90   93   97   98   99   190   294   299 
D South  10   45   48   49   88   92   96   199   290 
E East  9   42   44   46   291 

Notes:

  • There is a Stop F located at the other end of the bus loop which is currently only used for regional transit lines.
  • Routes  40 ,  93 ,  96 ,  99  and  199  serve this station during peak periods only.

References
  1. "Hurdman". Station Layout. OC Transpo. October 2019. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
  2. "O-Train Confederation Line". City of Ottawa. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  3. "Hurdman | OC Transpo". Retrieved October 15, 2019.
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