The Lees Transitway Station is a station on Ottawa's Transitway busway. It is located south of the Queensway just to the west of the Rideau River. It serves the Lees Avenue region and the Sandy Hill Heights community.
The 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 Lees Avenue area necessitating a $12 million dollar clean-up operation. The station was also the site of a deadly accident on July 18, 1994 when a 30 ton transport truck plunged off the Queensway exit ramp into the Transitway, killing two women and leaving a nine month old with permanent brain damage. The driver was later found guilty of dangerous driving. In July 2003, an eastbound bus lost control (later discovered to be a mechanical breakdown) approaching the station and slammed hard into the station; remarkably no one was seriously injured. It took months to repair the station.
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