Marketplace station

Marketplace is a Southwest Transitway station in the Barrhaven neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.[1] The station is located at the Riocan Marketplace shopping centre, an extensive commercial zone which contains big-box stores and department stores.

Marketplace
Ottawa Transitway station
LocationMarketplace Ave, Barrhaven
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
Coordinates45°16′11″N 75°44′34″W
Owned byOC Transpo
History
OpenedApril 17, 2011
Services
Preceding station OC Transpo Following station
Barrhaven Centre
toward Cambrian
 Route 75 Strandherd
toward Tunney's Pasture
Barrhaven Centre
Terminus
 Route 99 Beatrice
toward Hurdman

A temporary bus terminal[2] served the neighbourhood. This street facility was replaced on 17 April 2011 by the permanent transitway station and a new southerly terminus at Barrhaven Centre station which became the main connection point for local bus routes.[3]

Route 177 travels north via the Transitway towards Fallowfield Station during AM peak, and provides residents in Cambrian with improved connections. These trips do not serve Longfields Drive between Jockvale Road and Marketplace Avenue, or Marketplace Avenue between Longfields Drive and the Transitway, and instead travel via Jockvale Road northbound directly to Barrhaven Centre station.

Starting 19 July 2014, route 99 has selected trips extended to/from Barrhaven Centre Station via Nepean Woods Station, Beatrice Station, and the Vimy Memorial Bridge, providing a connection to Riverside South and Greenboro Station.[4]

Service
See also: OC Transpo routes

The following routes serve Marketplace station as of October 6 2019:[5]

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
1A Transitway South 75   80   99   170   171   173   175   176   275   305 
2A Transitway North 75   80   99   170   171   173   175   176   275   305   406   456 

Public art

Artist Cheryl Pagurek was chosen as the winner of a competition to provide public art in Marketplace Corridor.[6] Her artwork, titled, Currents, features video imagery of the Jock River on a large screen. The images in the video present a link between a nearby body of water in an area of urban development.

The images used in Currents are sourced from various collections, including the City of Ottawa Archives, the Canada Science and Technology Museum, the Goulbourn Museum, the Nepean Museum, and private collections. Currents can also be viewed through a mobile device as you commute.

References
  1. "Marketplace" (PDF). Station Layout. OC Transpo. Dec 2015. Retrieved March 2016. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. System Map, effective September 5, 2010
  3. Barrhaven / Southwest Transitway proposal - Transplan 2011
  4. "OC Transpo - Routes 94 and 99 extended". OC Transpo. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
  5. "Marketplace | OC Transpo". Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  6. "City of Ottawa Commissions, Southwest Transit Extension: Market Place Corridor". Archived from the original on 2013-04-10. Retrieved 2013-03-12.
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