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Variants API

A variant is a variation of a route, distinguished by its intermediate destination points.

New in v4

Stops, routes, trips, variants, and destinations services will have the concept of effective times:

  • effective-from and effective-to attributes on results from these services
  • effective-on query parameter accepted by these services

The effective attributes represent the time frame that the results are valid. They indicate when a piece of service begins and ends operating. Effective time ranges will correspond with Winnipeg Transit’s seasonal schedule changes. They will help you determine what service is new and what is ending when the Primary Transit Network launches on June 29, 2025. This includes identifying new stops and routes introduced by the network. It will also help in determining which routes will no longer be in service.

Different effective periods do not necessarily mean a major change in services. The BLUE route will continue to be in service after June 29, 2025 and will operate similarly to before that date. There may be some variability in service on the same route or at the same stop between effective periods. For example, an existing route may visit a new stop. Or an existing stop may be visited by a route that did not service it before.

Visit winnipeg.ca for more information about the new Primary Transit Network and its Feeder routes.

Valid URL Parameters

effective-on Return variant(s) in effect at the provided time. Allows querying for variants in future service that hasn't started yet.
name Matches variants with the given name.
stop Only return variants which service the stop identified by the given stop number.
stops A comma-delimited list of stop numbers. Don't include this if stop has been specified.
Common parameters:
usage The style of names to return.
  • long: The default, yields more verbose names.
  • short: Yields terser names.
json-camel-case Return camelCase keys when returning data in JSON format.
  • false: The default, legacy behaviour. Returns hyphenated keys like 'stop-schedule' or 'effective-to'
  • true: Returns camelCase keys like 'stopSchedule' or 'effectiveTo'.

Examples

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Identity

  • variants/17-1-G
  • variants/16-1-K?usage=long
  • variants/F5-1-F?effective-on=2025-07-07T12:00:00
  • variants/22-0-P?effective-on=2025-06-29T05:00:00
  • variants/1
  • variants/invalid

Filter

  • variants?stop=10064
  • variants?stop=10064&effective-on=2025-07-02T15:00:00
  • variants?stops=10064,10065
  • variants?name=osbo
  • variants?stop=10064&stops=10065,10066

Wildcard

  • variants:16
  • variants:16-1
  • variants:16-1-K
  • variants:osb
  • variants:F5?effective-on=2025-06-29T19:00:00
  • variants:

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Noteworthy Results

key A unique identifier for this variant.
name The variant name. See the usage parameter for formatting options.
effective-from The date and time when this variant will begin operating (i.e., the beginning of the Transit schedule change this variant is in)
effective-to The date and time when this variant will end operating (i.e., the end of the Transit schedule change this variant is in)
destinations An xlink to the destinations service for this variant.