Riverview station

"Riverview Station" redirects here. For station in Queensland, Australia, see Riverview railway station.

Riverview
Ottawa Transitway station
General information
Location	Earl Armstrong Road, Ottawa, Ontario Canada
Coordinates	45°16′07″N 75°41′41″W
Owned by	OC Transpo
Construction
Parking	160 spaces[1]
History
Opened	2009
Services
Preceding station OC Transpo Following station Terminus Route 74 Nepean Woods toward Tunney's Pasture Nepean Woods toward Barrhaven Centre or Citigate Route 99 Leitrim toward Hurdman

Riverview is an OC Transpo transit station located in the Riverside South community in Ottawa, Ontario. The station is located south of Earl Armstrong Road east of River Road.[2]

Riverview was officially designated as a Transitway station in the 2009 system map and was part of an eventual rapid transit corridor that would link with the existing Southeast Transitway that ends at Hunt Club Road and South Keys Shopping Centre. The corridor was intended for a previous light-rail extension towards Riverside South which was cancelled in 2006.[3]

The station is located just across from the Vimy Memorial Bridge which was completed in July 2014 and connects Riverside South with Barrhaven across the Rideau River. A rapid transit corridor along Strandherd Drive and Earl Armstrong Road is planned and would eventually connect to the Southwest Transitway near Greenbank Road and Strandherd Drive. Route 74, which previously started and ended at Nepean Woods station, was extended to/from Riverview station via the Vimy Memorial Bridge until it reverted to previous routing in June of 2021 and re-extended in the fall of 2023;[4] route 99 was also extended to Barrhaven Centre station (and later CitiGate on select trips) from its previous southwest terminus here at Riverview.

A park and ride facility with 155 parking spaces is operational at this station. A temporary park and ride area was built in the northwest corridor of River and Earl Armstrong until the completion of the permanent facility.[5]

A dedicated rapid transit corridor is currently zoned and protected by the City of Ottawa in its Ultimate Concept Transportation Master Plan which would connect Riverview through residential areas south of Earl Armstrong Road to the Trillium Line terminus at Limebank station.

The station is not to be confused with the neighbourhood of Riverview, which is located in another part of the city.

Service

See also: OC Transpo routes

The following routes currently serve Riverview:

Riverview Station Service
North O-Train	(non operational until potential stage 3 or 4 extension of Line 2 to Barrhaven Centre.)
Rapid routes	74   99
Local limited service routes	198
Connexion routes	278
Event routes	406
School routes	80   99   676   680

• After revenue service of O-Train line 2/4 is finished, Route  99  will be replaced by Route  110  between Limebank and CitiGate. Service between Limebank and Greenboro will be replaced by the O-Train Line 2. Route  74  service will also be extended to Limebank, providing connections to Line 2.
• Only 1 school trip from Route  80  serves this station during PM hours only.
• Future Routes  117  and  119  will either be available at the Station itself or nearby intersections.
• Route  299  is available at the intersection of Brian Good Avenue and Earl Armstrong Road but does not serve this station.
• School route  699  is available at the intersection of Brian Good Avenue and Earl Armstrong Road but does not serve this station directly

References

1. Steve Desroches (1 June 2009). "Increased OC Transpo Service Planned for Riverside South and Leitrim". Riverside South Community Association. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
2. "Riverview" (PDF). Station Layout. OC Transpo. December 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
3. "Report to Transit Committee and Council". 12 May 2009. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
4. "OC Transpo summer service to begin Sunday, June 20". Bay Ward Bulletin. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 June 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2009.