TOWN AND GOWN COMMITTEE – Housing Working Group MANDATE: To discuss study, recommend and find ways to implement policies, by-laws, actions and practices aimed at improving the overall condition and quality of rental housing within Sandy Hill; be it existing or proposed. The group will also discuss planning policies at the municipal level as they relate to improving … 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
On November 15, 2013, the City’s Transportation Committee met to review the draft 2013 Transportation Master Plan which outlines the transportation vision for the City to 2031 and beyond. One item that is always mentioned in these Transportation Master Plans is the need for a solution to the downtown interprovincial truck problem. In the past, that solution has … Read More
110 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1J1 May 31, 2013 Dear Mayor Watson: Thank you for taking the initiative to reach out to us in your May 27, 2013 email on the interprovincial crossing project. Action Sandy Hill (ASH) is very interested in your offer of further communications on this matter and we will make our views … Read More
May 21, 2013 Update: On May 14th, 2013, the NCC announced the results of the Phase 2B study as decided by the “Evaluation Committee” regarding the “technically preferred corridor” for a new inter-provincial bridge in the east end of the NCR. The choice was Kettle Island (via Aviation Parkway-Montée Paiement). Kettle Island was preferred over 2 other corridors … Read More
Ever since the Macdonald-Cartier bridge was built in the 1960’s Lowertown and the Northwest section of Sandy Hill have continued to struggle/deteriorate in large part because 2,500 heavy trucks (1600 of which are tractor trailers) per day travel down Waller, Rideau, and King Edward streets. This truck route is a major impediment to the revitalization of Rideau Street … Read More