Category: Transportation
City serves up options for Huntmar/Maple Grove intersection
Councillor Shad Qadri and City traffic planners have asked residents to comment on three potential new options for the Huntmar/Maple Grove intersection. You can see the new options here (via Fairwinds…
Here’s why they increased the speed limit on Eagleson to 80 km/h
We noticed a few tweets recently — both critical and celebratory — about a speed limit increase on Eagleson Road. The stretch between Katimavik and Hazeldean has been increased from 60…
FUTURE STITTSVILLE: Lots of new roads planned for our area
https://youtu.be/flge_rw6RG0?t=5s Remember that scene in Back to the Future, when Doc says to Marty: “Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads.” The opposite is true for Future Stittsville.…
Traffic impacts on Eagleson Road and Highway 417 on-ramps start Tuesday
(Media advisory) The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) will begin work on Tuesday, November 17 to widen sidewalks on the west side of the Eagleson Road Bridge over Highway…
New overnight winter parking restrictions start Sunday
(Photo via Hien Hoang, from his epic snow removal video.) (Press release) The City of Ottawa has changed its overnight parking restrictions in time for the upcoming winter. Overnight parking restrictions…
Southbound lane reductions on Eagleson overpass
(Photo: The Eagleson sidewalk was closed to pedestrians last winter because the sidewalks were built too narrow for city snowplows.) (story via Kanata North Councillor Marianne Wilkinson) As of November 2nd until mid December…
Residents pack hall for lively meeting about Minto development
(Above: About 100 people atttended the public meeting to share their perspective on the new Minto development. Photo by Shannon Lough.) There weren’t enough seats in the room for concerned residents…
Fairwinds residents meet with city staff about traffic safety
(Photo via Fairwinds Community Association.) On Friday morning ten residents from Fairwinds met with Councillor Shad Qadri, members of the Ottawa Police and staff from the city to talk about…
Abbott Street expected to be connected to Robert Grant by year’s end
Councillor Shad Qadri provided this update about construction on Abbott Street in his weekly email newsletter: Construction has been underway to extent Abbott Street East at Iber Road eastward to…
Accordion bus trial run for route 262
Stittsville bus commuters may want to sit down for this news: OC Transpo is testing out a bigger bus on route 262. Here’s a note from Shad Qadri’s weekly newsletter:…
Paving planned for Johnwoods on October 27
(via Shad Qadri) Mattamy Homes has advised that they are planning to place the toplift of asphalt on Johnwoods next week. Once they paved the road with base course asphalt…
Eagleson closed from Fallowfield to Old Richmond starting Tuesday
(via the City of Ottawa) Eagleson Road will be closed to through traffic from Fallowfield Road to Old Richmond Road, starting Tuesday, October 13 until late November. Local access will…
LETTER: Roundabouts are great for cyclists
Re: City staff rejects roundabouts for Carp Road Reading the article, the comment about them being worse for cyclists is ridiculous. I am a cyclist and a motorist and roundabouts…
LINKED: New Kanata park-and-ride costs $47,000 per spot
https://twitter.com/joeboughner/status/648986693576622080 https://twitter.com/KellyEganColumn/status/648998027152240640 Kelly Egan writes in the Ottawa Citizen about overcrowding at OC Transpo’s Eagleson park-and-ride, the city’s plan for a new lot at the corner of Innovation Drive and Terry Fox Drive…
TWEETED: Speeding on West Ridge
Here’s a tweet shared on Tuesday morning by the Ottawa Police: https://twitter.com/OPSWestTraffic/status/643772896561770496 Police had the radar gun out at a few locations around Stittsville and Kanata over the past week.…