Beatrice station

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Beatrice
Ottawa Transitway station
Beatrice Station mosbo6.jpg
General information
LocationChapman Mills Drive at Beatrice Drive, Barrhaven, Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
Coordinates 45°16′18″N75°43′33″W / 45.27167°N 75.72583°W / 45.27167; -75.72583
Owned by OC Transpo
History
OpenedNovember 12, 2014 [1]
Services
Preceding station O-Train icon.png OC Transpo Following station
Marketplace Route 99 Nepean Woods
toward Hurdman

Beatrice station is a south-west Transitway station [2] located in the Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, suburb of Barrhaven. [1]

It is served by OC Transpo buses and opened on November 12, 2014. [1] Beatrice Station straddles the corner of Chapman Mills Drive and Beatrice Drive in the heart of Barrhaven's shopping core and is served by a notable rapid-transit route, route 99. [1] Two bus stops are located on Beatrice Drive directly to the north of the intersection, serving the rapid route 80, and Connexion route 277 on weekdays during peak times.

Connexion route 406 is extended from/to Riverview Station via Nepean Woods Station and the Vimy Memorial Bridge to provide residents with improved connections to events at the Canadian Tire Centre in Kanata. [3]

Service

The following routes serve Beatrice station as of September 5 2021: [4]

O-Train Line 1.svg O-Train Line 2.svg O-Train Line 4.svg O-Train
 E1 Shuttle Express
 R1  R2  R4 O-Train replacement bus routes
 98  39 Rapid routes
 N75 Night routes
 40  11 Frequent routes
 55  162 Local routes
 284 Connexion routes
 405 300s: Shopper routes
400s: Event routes
600s: School routes
Additional info:
StopRoutes
1A Transitway East 99  99 
2A Transitway West 99  99  406  675 
#0676 Beatrice Dr. North 80  80  277  675  680 
#1579 Beatrice Dr. South 80  80  277  680 

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "OC Transpo - Bus-only lanes and new station for Barrhaven". OC Transpo. November 2014. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
  2. "Beatrice" (PDF). Station Layout. OC Transpo. Dec 2015. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
  3. "Connexion 400 Map" (PDF). OC Transpo. November 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
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