Transpo bus catches fire; snow, ice pellets forecast for this afternoon

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Tuesday morning’s commute is pretty much smooth sailing but snow mixed with ice pellets are expected to make for a bumpier ride home with more snow and freezing drizzle overnight.

School buses are running in Ottawa but both the Upper Canada District School Board and the Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario have cancelled transportation because of the freezing rain forecast. Schools remain open.

The city’s traffic centre reported shortly after 7 a.m. that Piperville Road was closed from Anderson Road to Farmers Way just west of Carlsbad Springs due to a double-decker OC Transpo bus on fire.

Witnesses said there were more than 50 passengers on the bus, but there were hurried off by the driver. There were no reported injuries.


@Ottawa_Traffic pic.twitter.com/7H0lhJY6QC

— Ken Bendelier (@392Challenger) January 17, 2017


Commuters should use other routes.


Piperville closed from Anderson to Farmers Way – vehicle fire. Duration unknown. Avoid area and use other routes. #otttraffic

— Ottawa_Traffic (@Ottawa_Traffic) January 17, 2017


OC Transpo was reporting a technical glitch that resulted in the MyTransit app and 560560 providing departure times that are not adjusted by real-time GPS data.

Environment Canada is predicting increasing cloudiness Tuesday and precipitation beginning by late afternoon. The high is forecast to be -2C.

Overnight, expect a low of -4C with snow and ice pellets totalling two to four cm.

The forecast for Wednesday is for periods of freezing drizzle or flurries and a high of -1C.

Thursday is expected to feature a morning low of -3C before the mercury rises to a high of 3C with a 30 per cent chance of flurries.


Forecast calls for 5 January days in a row with max > 0?, which is more common than you might imagine: it happened in 2013 and 2014. #OttWx

— YOW Weather Records (@YOW_Weather) January 16, 2017


It’s expected to barely dip below freezing overnight with a forecast high of 2C Friday.

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