During the 2021-2024 period the City is updating its 25 year vision for transportation in the City, referred to as the Transportation Master Plan (TMP). One element of the TMP is the Active Transportation Plan. The following slide set summarizes the draft Active Transportation Plan for Sandy Hill.
Learn About the Issue Since the Macdonald-Cartier bridge was constructed in 1967, King Edward Avenue, Rideau, Waller, and Nicholas streets (KERWN) have become a major interprovincial truck route. This has had significant negative impacts along this corridor and on the adjacent communities. The continued existence of a high volume of transport trucks on our roadways continues to pose … Read More
Action Sandy Hill re-affirms our position that any planning for interprovincial transportation changes must prioritize solutions that remove the non-local through truck traffic from the existing KERWN corridor. This problem exists due to the lack of proper connection between the 417 and 5/50 interprovincial highway systems within the National Capital Region (NCR) It has continued to grow and … Read More
Downtown Tunnel: In 2013, the City of Ottawa and the Province of Ontario agreed to a new initiative by co-funding a $750,000 engineering feasibility study for a downtown tunnel to connect Highway 417 to the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge (not a tunnel under the Ottawa River). More info: ASH Tunnel Response ASH Tunnel Letter To Mayor Watson City Tunnel Study … Read More
Images courtesy of the Ottawa Citizen The new footbridge over the Rideau River at Strathcona Park opened on Friday, December 4, 2015 with Mayor Watson, Councillors Fleury and Nussbaum in attendance. See the Ottawa Citizen article and video. Sandy Hill and Overbrook people held a Lantern Gathering on the bridge the same evening. The footbridge has been officially … Read More
East End Interprovincial Bridge Ph 1 Study: In 2007 the NCC, the Province of Ontario and the Province of Quebec launched another comprehensive study to determine where a new interprovincial crossing should be built. Fourteen options were evaluated at twelve locations (both east and west of downtown). The NCC elected not to move forward with any options other than … Read More
Underlying the planning for all of the above mentioned major projects (Downtown Tunnel and LRT plan, New Inter-provincial Bridge, Inter-provincial Transit Evolution, Road, Transit, and Cycling projects) is a single document the City calls the Transportation Master Plan. This document is updated every 5 years and contains all the assumptions in growth in population, car traffic, and transit … Read More
For decades the City of Ottawa has listed as one of its top priority new road projects a corridor joining Conroy Road at Walkley, through an empty corridor north of the Ottawa Hospital connecting to a re-designed interchange of Nicholas Avenue at the Queensway. A coalition (Citizens for Healthy Communities) was formed in the early 2000‟s including representatives … Read More
For immediate release: November 29, 2013 Study will evaluate feasibility of tunnel between bridge and Hwy. 417 Ottawa – The study of a possible solution to heavy traffic in downtown Ottawa will investigate the technical feasibility of connecting the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge and Highway 417 with a tunnel, with the primary goal of removing large trucks from downtown streets. … Read More
The City, together with the Province of Ontario, has committed to and is now engaged in a 750,000$ feasibility study for a tunnel downtown intended to remove the trucks from the surface streets in order to get them between the 417 and the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge. That study is just starting and is expected to take just over a … Read More