Plan Backs Kettle Island Bridge: PATTON
The controversial Kettle Island Bridge is in the city’s transportation master plan.
Transport Master Plan
Mike Patton is the former communications director for Mayor Larry O’Brien and the president of the Ottawa West-Nepean PC Association.
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You mean the plan that the Chair of the city’s Transportation Committee voted against?
Actually, there is an Ottawa-style “ringy” road around the city. It goes north along Stagecoach Road, joins with Mitch Owens Road, then meets Boundary Road, before hooking up with the 417 for access to Montreal. Other side-trips allow truck drivers to head northward through the city and onto points in Quebec north of downtown. Only in Ottawa.
Mike, the Baseline transit corridor should improve east-west traffic flow across the near west. Residents, transit, emergency vehicles, delivery vehicles have too few choices. Baseline and Carling have too many traffic lights to allow for the smooth flow of east-west traffic. 417 is clogged morning, noon and evening. The “What ever it is called this week western parkway” is too far to the north for those whose start and end points are not on the northern perimeter.
Bus corridors are set up for a pair of buses only lanes down the middle. replacing the existing median. To work properly, they must have infrequent stops (one per kilometer?). Note to staff and council, don’t pander to the selfish requests to have a stop ‘near my home’.
I have seen these corridors in action in towns/cities north of Toronto. While I am sitting in a never ending line of brake lights, buses are moving along unimpeded.
It is worth noting that this corridor was in a prior version of the Master Transportation Plan. It was removed from the most recent Plan due to the unfunded cost. A decade or two later, the cost will have risen dramatically. Oh, and the cost is not yet funded, just flagged with the catch all ‘to be paid by senior levels of government’.