Ticket machines

Customers using a ticket machine at Bayview Station.

  • Simple and intuitive interface with on-screen instructions
  • Bilingual (English and French) instructions and commands
  • Video chat with a Customer Service Representative who will guide you through the process and answer fare-related questions
  • Clear audio and video interface
  • Braille and raised text identifies function keys and machine components
  • Controls are at accessible height
  • Simple and intuitive interface with on-screen instructions
  • Bilingual (English and French) instructions and commands
  • Video chat with a Customer Service Representative who will guide you through the process and answer fare-related questions
  • Clear audio and video interface
  • Braille and raised text identifies function keys and machine components
  • Controls are at accessible height

Ticket machine locations

Customers have several options for ticket machine locations. All O-Train stations have ticket machines. When entering an O-Train station, ticket machines are located nearby the fare gates and outside of the fare-paid zone. Additionally, ticket machines are now available at each of the seven stations along the Southeast Transitway. The following stations have available ticket machines:

  • Bayview
  • Billings Bridge
  • Blair
  • Cyrville
  • Fallowfield
  • Heron
  • Hurdman
  • Innovation
  • Lees
  • Lycée Claudel
  • Lyon
  • Parliament
  • Pimisi
  • Place d’Orléans
  • Pleasant Park
  • Rideau
  • Riverside
  • Smyth
  • St-Laurent
  • Terry Fox
  • Tremblay
  • Tunney's Pasture
  • uOttawa
  • Walkley

Ticket machines are also available at:

  • 925 Belfast Road
  • Ottawa International Airport (Look for the ticket machine at the south end of the Arrivals terminal)
  • Algonquin College (on the second floor of the Algonquin Centre for Construction Excellence, near the elevators)

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Fares from ticket machines

You can pay with cash, debit, or credit. Ticket machines cannot accept $100-bills or Presto e-Purse payments.

Multiple fare payment options are available at ticket machines:

Presto services on ticket machines

At a ticket machine, you can only buy a new Presto card and add funds to your Presto card.

Some Presto services are not available at a ticket machine. To use the Presto services listed below, go to prestocard.ca or visit a Customer Service Centre as indicated.

Where to access Presto services not available at ticket machines
Online at prestocard.ca
  • Register your Presto card
  • Hotlist (block) your Presto card if it is lost or stolen
  • Transfer your balance to a new card if it is lost or stolen
  • Set up Autoload or Auto Renew
  • Get your Presto usage report for tax purposes
OC Transpo
Customer Service Centre
  • Set a Senior, Youth, or EquiPass discount on a Presto card
Select Shoppers Drug Mart stores
  • Set a Senior or Youth discount on a Presto card

Video-chat with a Customer Service Representative

Customer Service Representative speaking with a customer through video chat on a ticket machine.We're here to help button

Touch the "We're here to help" button on the screen to launch video chat. Video-chat help lets you speak with an OC Transpo Customer Service Representative. The representative can help:

  • Guide you through your fare purchase
  • Get you through the fare gates if you have valid fare that isn’t machine-readable
  • Answer all your fare-related questions

Using audio support to access video-chat

Plug your headphones into the audio jack. You will find the jack below the bottom left corner of the touch screen. The jack is labelled "AUDIO" in raised text and Braille.

Follow the audio prompts. Use the payment PIN pad to control the ticket machine. You will find the PIN pad indented into the far right of the machine.