Lees station
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Location
It is located south of the Highway 417 just to the west of the Rideau River. It serves the Lees Avenue and Sandy Hill Heights communities, as well as the Lees Campus of the University of Ottawa.
History
The transitway station has had quite a notorious history for serious incidents. Soon after the station was constructed, coal tar began seeping into the station and it was closed for two months. It was soon discovered that this industrial waste was under much of the Lees Avenue area, necessitating a $6 million cleanup operation.[3]
The station was also the site of a deadly accident on July 18, 1994, when a 30-tonne transport truck plunged off the exit ramp of Highway 417 onto the transitway, killing two women and leaving a nine-month-old with permanent brain damage. The driver was later found guilty of dangerous driving.[4]
In July 2003, an eastbound bus approaching the station lost control due to a mechanical breakdown, and slammed into the station. No one was seriously injured, but it took months to repair the stationScript error: No such module "Unsubst"..
In December 2015, the Transitway from Lees station to Blair station was closed; it reopened on September 14, 2019, when Confederation Line service began.[5]
Layout
Lees station is a side platform station located at grade in a cutting. Above the platforms, the station's entrance building contains the ticket barrier and gives access to a plaza on the north side of Lees Avenue.
The station's artwork, Transparent Passage by Amy Thompson, features a series of forest designs on the station's glass platform walls, backed by sculptures of birds in flight along the retaining walls behind them. [6]
Service
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| Stop | Routes |
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| West O-Train | Template:Rint |
| East O-Train | Template:Rint |
| A Lees Avenue, Southwest | Template:Rbox Template:Rbox Template:Rbox Template:Rbox Template:Rbox Template:Rbox Template:Rbox |
| B Lees Avenue, Northwest | Template:Rbox Template:Rbox Template:Rbox |
Notes:
- Routes N39 and N45 heading towards Rideau station do not serve this station.
References
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External links
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- 1983 establishments in Ontario
- 2015 disestablishments in Ontario
- 2019 establishments in Ontario
- Line 1 (O-Train) stations
- Line 3 (O-Train) stations
- Railway stations in Canada at university and college campuses
- Railway stations in Canada opened in 2019