Plan Would Dump Train From Carling: LEIPER
The (transportation master plan) serves primarily to identify capital projects eligible to collect development charges needed to accommodate predicted growth.
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This newsletter excerpt from Kitchissippi Councillor Jeff Leiper is courtesy of the city-wide community group Your Applewood Acres (And Beyond) Neighbours
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A few projects have caught my eye. First, the Carling corridor has now been changed from an expected train or tram to a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route, which I hope will be more realistically accomplished and sooner. The Baseline Rd. BRT project scored highest as a project citywide and I’m keen to see that move ahead. In our ward specifically, construction of a protected intersection for cyclists and pedestrians has been identified as a near-term project at Byron/Churchill, and in the first phase of the TMP, the City is proposing to study the feasibility of cycling infrastructure to connect Tyndall to Scott on Holland and, a priority of mine, connecting Byron to Scott along Churchill.
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Andy Haydon would have been pleased to see the Transitway returning. In a slightly different form but resurrected nonetheless.
Those of us who always favoured the Carling Route for the LRT can, I suppose, take comfort in these various BRT iterations since Andy’s original Transitway has, bit-by-bit, been converted to LRT. Maybe the new versions will eventually find themselves transitioning to light rail at some future date.
I do wonder, though, how the good people of Kanata and Barrhaven feel about these BRTs coming when it looks very much like they may be built before the future stages of the LRT which were promised to them many moons ago.
There are low or no parking developments coming to March Road in the near future. These are entirely dependent on BRT which will come into existence well after these ghettos are built. I call them ghettos because they are a giant complex with no facilities, recreation or community – nothing for the 3,000 to 4,000 kids to do (March Rd and Terry Fox). Kanata used to be about building communities, under Cathy Curry it is just making places for people to sleep. Considering North Kanata busing is being halved under the New Way To Bus, they may make the BRT, but will it have any buses?
Also, the buses go through the heart of the tech park now. Will these stops disappear and people have to walk 1 km to the BRT stop?