Lees station
{{short description|Transit station in Ottawa, Canada}}
{{confused|Lees (Manchester) railway station|Lees Station, Tennessee}}
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{{Infobox station
| name = Lees
| type = O-Train station
| style = OC Transpo
| symbol_location = ottawa
| symbol = 1big
| image = Lees Station Platform, November 2022.jpg
| image_size =
| image_caption = Lees Station LRT platform
| address =
| coordinates = {{Coord|45|24|59|N|75|40|13|W|region:CA-ON_type:railwaystation|display=inline,title}}
| line =
| other =
| structure = Trench (LRT station)
| platform = 2 (O-Train), 2 (Bus)
| depth =
| levels = 2
| tracks = 2
| parking = No
| bicycle = Yes
| baggage_check =
| opened = 1983 (Transitway)
September 14, 2019 (O-Train){{Cite news |url=https://www.octranspo.com/en/news/article/line-1-opens-sept-14/ |title=Line 1 opens on Sept. 14|last=Watson|first=Jim|date=August 23, 2019 |access-date=August 23, 2019 |website=octranspo.com}}
| closed = December 20, 2015 (Lower/transitway level only)
| rebuilt = 2015–2019
| electrified =
| accessible =
| code = 3022
| owned = OC Transpo
| zone =
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| services = {{adjstn|system=OC Transpo|line=1|left=uOttawa|right=Hurdman}}
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Lees station is an OC Transpo light rail station in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It had previously been a Transitway station, which closed in January 2016 and was converted into an O-Train station.{{cite web|url=http://www.octranspo1.com/routes/on_track_2018 |title=OC Transpo - On Track 2018 April 24 Service Change |publisher=OC Transpo |accessdate=7 April 2016}}
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.{{Cite news|url=https://nouveau.eureka.cc/Link/unimont1/news%c2%b719860829%c2%b7TTA%c2%b719860829-4826762|title=Ottawa-Carleton region offices raided in probe of coal-tar leak|last=Canadian Press|date=1986|work=Toronto Star|access-date=2019-10-17|page=A21}}
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.{{Cite news|url=https://nouveau.eureka.cc/Link/unimont1/news%c2%b719940719%c2%b7LT%c2%b7001|title=Un camion chute: deux morts|last=Lemieux|first=Julie|date=1994|work=Le Droit|access-date=2019-10-17|location=Gatineau|page=1}}
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 station{{source needed|date=October 2019}}.
In December 2015, the Transitway from Lees station to Blair station was closed; it reopened on September 14, 2019, when Confederation Line service began.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mainstreeter.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Lees-Station.pdf|title=Transit Service Adjustments during Confederation Line Construction|last=OC Transpo|date=2015-10-14}}
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. {{cite web |title=O-Train Confederation Line |url=https://ottawa.ca/en/residents/transportation-and-parking/oc-transpo-and-public-transit/o-train-confederation-line |publisher=City of Ottawa |accessdate=17 September 2019}}
Service
{{See also|OC Transpo routes}}
The following routes serve Lees as of October 6, 2019:{{cite web|url=https://www.octranspo.com/en/our-services/stations1/lees1|title=Lees {{!}} OC Transpo|access-date=October 15, 2019}}
{{OC Transpo key}}
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!Stop !Routes | |||||||
| West O-Train
|{{rint|ottawa|1}} | |||||||
| East O-Train
|{{rint|ottawa|1}} | |||||||
| A Lees Avenue, Southwest
|{{rbox|10 | #{{octc|frequent}}}} {{rbox|N39 | white;border:1.5px solid #{{octc|frequent}}|#{{octc|frequent}}}} {{rbox|N45 | white;border:1.5px solid #{{octc|frequent}}|#{{octc|frequent}}}} {{rbox|56 | #{{octc|local}}}} {{rbox|85 | #{{octc|frequent}}}} {{rbox|N98 | white;border:1.5px solid #{{octc|frequent}}|#{{octc|frequent}}}} {{rbox|R1 | white;border:1.5px solid #{{octc|1}}|#{{octc|1}}}} |
| B Lees Avenue, Northwest
|{{rbox|10 | #{{octc|frequent}}}} {{rbox|56 | #{{octc|local}}}} {{rbox|85 | #{{octc|frequent}}}} |
Notes:
- Routes N39 and N45 heading towards Rideau station do not serve this station.
References
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External links
- [http://www.octranspo.com/images/files/maps/station_layout/LEE.pdf Lees station page]
- [http://www.octranspo.com/images/files/maps/area_map/LEE.pdf Lees area map]
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Category:1983 establishments in Ontario
Category:2015 disestablishments in Ontario
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Category:Line 1 (O-Train) stations
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Category:Railway stations in Canada at university and college campuses