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Location | Longfields | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 45°17′06″N75°44′50″W / 45.28500°N 75.74722°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | OC Transpo | ||||||||||
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Opened | April 17, 2011 [1] | ||||||||||
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Longfields is an Ottawa Transitway station in the Longfields neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Barrhaven). The station is located on a route that runs along the south side of the CNR railway line southwest from Fallowfield Station towards Strandherd Station.
Located close to the station are École élémentaire catholique Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau, [2] Mother Teresa High School and Longfields-Davidson Heights Secondary School.
Bronze sculptures created by Erin Robertson and Anna Williams entitled, Bellwether, were installed at the Longfield Transit Station in 2011. [3] The artwork is composed of life-sized sculptures of four sheep and a border collie herding them across a green roof. [4]
Bellwether is a permanent sculptural installation, primarily located on the vegetative roofs of the transit station, which consists of four life-sized sheep and one life-sized Border collie sheepdog all cast in bronze and finished with patina. [5]
Bellwether is intended to create an overall sense of the movement of a community through a designated space. It investigates the subtleties of various roles and relationships within established groups. Playfully comparing the contemporary public transit system to traditional agricultural herding practices, the installation is suggestive of social cooperation and adaptation which are both characteristics of an effective transit system. [6]
The following routes currently serve Longfields Station:
Longfields Station Service | |
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Rapid routes | 75 |
Connexion routes | 271 273 |
Shopper routes | 305 |
Event routes | 406 456 |
The Border Collie is a breed of herding dog of medium size. Widely considered to be the most intelligent dog breed, they are descendants of landrace sheepdogs that were once found all over the British Isles, but became standardised in the Anglo-Scottish border region. They are now mostly used as working dogs to herd livestock, specifically sheep.
A herding dog, also known as a stock dog, shepherd dog, sheep dog or working dog, is a type of dog that either has been trained in herding or belongs to breeds that are developed for herding.
The Bearded Collie, or Beardie, is a herding breed of dog once used primarily by Scottish shepherds, but now mostly a popular family companion.
The Transitway is a bus rapid transit (BRT) network operated by OC Transpo in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It comprises a series of bus-only roadways and reserved lanes on city streets and highways. The dedicated busways ensure that buses and emergency vehicles on the Transitway rarely intersect directly with the regular traffic, and make it possible for them to continue at full speed even during rush hour. OC Transpo operates a network of rapid routes which use the Transitway to connect communities with the O-Train light rail system. Additional bus routes also use segments of the Transitway.
Barrhaven is a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located about 17 km (11 mi) southwest of the city's downtown core. Prior to amalgamation with Ottawa in 2001, Barrhaven was part of the City of Nepean. Its population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 103,234.
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