South Keys station

Railway station in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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South Keys

Ottawa Transitway station

South Keys station looking northwest

General information
Location| Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
Coordinates| 45°21′13″N 75°39′19″W﻿ / ﻿45.35361°N 75.65528°W﻿ / 45.35361; -75.65528
Owned by| OC Transpo
Platforms| Centre platform
Tracks| 2
History
Opening| September 2, 1995 (Transitway)
2024 (LRT)
Services
| Preceding station  |  OC Transpo | Following station

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Airport

Terminus

|  | Route 97 |  | Greenboro

toward Hurdman

Hawthorne

Terminus

|  | Route 98 |
Leitrim

toward Barrhaven Centre

|  | Route 99 |
Future services
| Preceding station  |  OC Transpo | Following station

|
|

Greenboro

toward Bayview

|  | Line 2

Reopens 2024

|  | Leitrim

toward Limebank

Uplands

toward Airport

|  | Line 4

Opens 2024

|  | Terminus

South Keys station is a stop on Ottawa's transitway system.[1] Operated by OC Transpo, it is last station at the southern end of the Transitway, just north of Hunt Club Road. The station is located in the South Keys neighbourhood of Ottawa at the south end of the South Keys Shopping Centre beside the Cineplex Odeon South Keys Cinemas, between Bank Street and the Airport Parkway. The station was opened to traffic with the southern transitway on September 2, 1995.

OC Transpo bus route 97 continues on the Airport Parkway from Greenboro to the most southern station, Airport station, while other routes such as routes 98 and 99 exit at Hunt Club Road.

Previously, City Council approved the addition of an O-Train station at South Keys (instead of Lester) in conjunction of the expansion of the north–south light rail line. The project was cancelled on December 14, 2006. In 2024, South Keys will reopen as a centre platform, light rail station. It will serve as the transfer point between the Trillium Line and the Airport Link.[2]

## Service[edit]

See also: OC Transpo routes

The following routes serve South Keys as of September 4, 2022:

Key

* v
* t
* e

| O-Train
R1 R2 | 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:

* Line 1: O-Train Confederation Line
* Route 2: Trillium Line (currently a bus route)

* Routes 5 to 99: connect to Line 1 and/or Route 2
* Routes 100 to 199: connect to Transitway
* Routes 200 to 299: Connexion (peak periods only)
* Routes 301 to 305: Shopper (limited rural service)
* Routes 404 to 406: Canadian Tire Centre events
* Routes 450 to 456: Lansdowne Park events
* Routes 602 to 698: high schools

* Route R1: replaces Line 1 when out of service
* Route R2: alternative name for current Route 2
* Routes N39 to N97: night service (replaces Line 1)
* White backgrounds: service may be limited

* Last two digits represent service area:
* 00s and 10s – Central
* 20s – Gloucester
* 30s – Orléans
* 40s – Ottawa East
* 50s – Ottawa West
* 60s – Kanata, Stittsville
* 70s – Barrhaven
* 80s – Nepean
* 90s – South Keys

Station service

O-Train replacement |  2
Rapid routes |  97 98 99
Frequent routes |  6 40 90
Local routes |  92 93 93X 96 96B 197 198 199
Connexion routes |  294 299
Shopper routes |  304
Event routes |  452
School routes |  90 92 93 96 99 640 644 649 698

* After the Airport Spur and the Trillium Line open to customers, route 97 will be retired and replaced by Line 4 which will connect riders to/from the Airport. Route 99 service to/from Riverside South will be replaced by Line 2. For service to/from Hurdman station, customers will have to transfer to route 98 or another route that travels to/from Hurdman.
* School route 693 serves the intersection of Transitway and Hunt Club, but not this station directly.

## Safety issues[edit]

This station has a history of safety concerns during the night time hours. There were several incidents involving assaults,[3] swarming[4] and vandalism[5] in the vicinity which prompted some increased safety measures. This station has a night stop which all buses use after 9 PM.[6]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "South Keys" (PDF). Station Layout. OC Transpo. December 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
2. ^ "Trillium Line South Extension". ottawa.ca. November 19, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
3. ^ "Police looking into another south-end personal robbery". CBCnews. 26 November 2013. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
4. ^ Bell, Danielle (20 November 2012). "Girls arrested after South Keys robberies". Ottawa Sun. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
5. ^ "Two boys charged after dog spray released at transit stop". Ottawa Sun. 3 November 2013. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
6. ^ "Night Stop and Safe Stop". OCTranspo. Retrieved 11 December 2014.

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* t
* e

OC Transpo services in Ottawa

O-Train lines and stations

Line 1|

* Tunney's Pasture
* Bayview
* Pimisi
* Lyon
* Parliament
* Rideau
* uOttawa
* Lees
* Hurdman
* Tremblay
* St-Laurent
* Cyrville
* Blair

Under
construction|

|  Line 1
Line 3|

* West: ● Algonquin
* ● Iris
* ● Moodie
* ● Bayshore
* ● Pinecrest
* ● Queensview
* Lincoln Fields
* New Orchard
* Sherbourne
* Kichi Zìbì
* Westboro

East: Montréal
Jeanne d'Arc
Convent Glen
Place d'Orléans
Trim

|

Line 2|

* Bayview
* Corso Italia
* Dow's Lake
* Carleton
* Mooney's Bay
* Walkley
* Greenboro
* South Keys
* Leitrim
* Bowesville
* Limebank

Line 4|

* South Keys
* Uplands
* Airport

Yards|

* Belfast Yard
* Moodie Yard
* Walkley Yard

Other|

* Public art

Transitway network

West|

* Stittsville
* Canadian Tire Centre
* Terry Fox
* Innovation
* Teron
* Eagleson
* Moodie
* Bells Corners
* Bayshore
* Pinecrest
* Lincoln Fields
* Dominion
* Westboro
* Tunney's Pasture

Southwest|

* Nepean Woods
* Beatrice
* Cambrian
* Barrhaven Centre
* Marketplace
* Strandherd
* Longfields
* Fallowfield
* Baseline
* Iris
* Queensway

East|

* Blair
* Montréal
* Jeanne d'Arc
* Place d'Orléans
* Trim
* Millennium

Southeast|

* Hurdman
* Lycée Claudel
* Smyth
* Riverside
* Pleasant Park
* Billings Bridge
* Heron
* Walkley
* Greenboro
* South Keys
* Airport
* Leitrim
* Riverview

Buses

Routes|

* OC Transpo routes

Incidents|

* 2013 Ottawa bus–train crash
* 2019 Westboro station bus crash

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