By CTV News Ottawa, August 10, 2018
One of Ottawa’s longest and oldest cross-town buses is being re-routed.
The number 11 bus, formerly the two, is being shortened as of September 2nd. Instead of ending at Bayshore Shopping Centre in the west it will now end at Lincoln Fields Station. The bus route has also been shortened to end in the east at Confederation Square instead of the Rideau Centre.
Doug Jesner lives just off Richmond Road and takes the number 11 every day.
“That will be an inconvenience,” he said. “Sometimes you’d have to wait ten or 15 minutes to take a second bus to Bayshore. It’s okay in this weather but in the winter it wouldn’t be good at all.”
The roughly 1 hour route is extremely popular in the west end with seniors and those with disability who live in the Lincoln Fields area. Residents say it’s the easiest way to get to the Walmart at Bayshore Shopping Centre and to other neighbourhoods along the route. The 153 goes in a similar direction but it is not nearly as frequent.
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/changes-coming-to-popular-cross-town-oc-transpo-route-11-1.4048495