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''OC Transpo Route 97'' is the City of Ottawa bus (transitway) between downtown and the airport. It starts at Bayshore Station at Bayshore Shopping Centre and ends at either South Keys Station or the Airport. Several trips each day start or end at Tunney's Pasture Station. Some trips also serve Bells Corners after serving Bayshore Station. Route 97 is also used as an alternative to route 96 from Bayshore Station to Hurdman Station and thus provides improved service to the central transitway, the downtown core and Bayshore Shopping Centre. This also helps on transfers at Hurdman Station, Lincoln Fields Station and Bayshore Station to local routes, some of which in the east end extend to Hurdman Station. ==History== The 97 was created when the transitway gradually expanded in the 1990s especially when the southeastern leg was created all the way to South Keys Station. In its early years the route was serving from the Bayshore area until South Keys with occasional evening and Sunday service toward the Airport. During the 1990s, an older route 96 used to follow a similar route to the 97 from Carlingwood Mall to the Ottawa Airport before it was canceled and replaced in parts by routes 87 through Carlingwood and Hunt Club, 147 through CFB Uplands and the 97. Prior to the 96's cancellation, the 97 ended previously at Billings Bridge and later at South Keys (most trips). It replaced the 96 for the Kanata portion and eventually provided the only rapid transit along the southeast Transitway towards the Airport with more expansion planned towards the west. In 2003, the 97 travelled from Stittsville to the Ottawa Airport via Kanata, Bayshore Shopping Centre and downtown. In 2004, the city suddenly introduced a major change by splitting route 97 into two different routes which included the new route 96. The 97 lost the section between Bayshore and Kanata/Stittsville, which is now served by the 96 (which also travels via Highway 417 between Queensway Station and Bayshore Station). The 97 also lost its early morning service to Pinecrest Garage to route 96, since the latter one was traveling much closer to it then the 97 - in the late 1990s the early morning trips were running from Kanata to Pinecrest Garage while travelling on the southwest Transitway from Lincoln Fields Station until Iris Station before travelling on Iris Street and Pinecrest Road to serve the Garage starting/ending the trip. () By staying on Carling Avenue and Richmond Road only, it sped up the early morning trips by several minutes. Local route 172 and route 173 provide additional service on Pinecrest Road while route 96 served the area at the 417 (the future Pinecrest Station part of the western Transitway expansion). Also, when the route was changed, the route's schedule configuration changed in some periods. In the past, numerous trips that started at the Airport were doing a longer trip to Kanata with some extending to Stittsville. Today, many trips that start from the Airport end at Tunney's Pasture Station. Many trips that end at Bayshore Station now start at South Keys Station, which in the past terminated at Lebreton Station. This occasionally forces some riders west of Tunney's Pasture Station to transfer to the 97 AIRPORT from the 97X SOUTH KEYS. In the past two years, weekday service has increased for most of the route. In their transit realignment plan for 2009, the city planned two modifications with the 97. First, they planned on extending route 97 to Bells Corners via Richmond Road. It would terminate in an undetermined hub location in the community. The change is intended to facilitate transfers for some Kanata routes as well as a future east-west rapid transit link from Kanata to Orleans. However, as of 2009, the proposal was never made nor proposed during the TransPlan consultations. Also, there was a possibility that a shuttle service would replace route 97's coverage to the Airport, based on the likelihood of service by the future north-south light-rail project directly to the Airport. However, City Council have cancelled the light-rail project on December 14, 2006 which leads to a reduced likelihood of change to service to the Airport by route 97. If the light-rail project would have been completed, there would have been a shuttle service from a proposed Lester Station to the Airport replacing route 97. Route 97 would have ended at the Hunt Club Loop. For the fall service change in 2010, route 97 operates 24 hours a day during weekdays only. Service to Bayshore Station terminates around 3 AM nightly and resumes at around 4:45 AM, meaning overnight route 97 only runs between Tunney's Pasture Station and Airport Station. Route 97 continued to not run overnight on Saturday and Sunday. Starting on September 4, 2011, selected route 97 trips have been extended via Richmond Road to/from Bells Corners. These trips start/end near the corner of Moodie Drive/Robertson Road, and replace local route 166 between Bayshore Station and Bells Corners. These trips are signed 97 BELLS CORNERS VIA BAYSHORE and operate every 30 minutes on weekdays, and hourly on weekends. Route 97 also operates 24 hours a day on Saturdays, meaning Sunday is the only day route 97 does not operate 24 hours of. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「OC Transpo Route 97」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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