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A National Capital Commission and City of Ottawa working group has reached an agreement in principle that would allow the city’s western light rail transit (WLRT) extension to be fully buried under the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway, the parties announced Friday.
The proposed solution addresses the NCC’s conditions and city’s financial concerns, while advancing the creation of a waterfront linear park, the parties said.
The sOlution was struck following a 100-day review process, led by a working group consisting of three city councillors, four NCC Board members, the city manager and the NCC’s CEO.
This group began meeting in December 2014, with the goal of finding a mutually satisfactory solution for the western extension of Confederation Line between the Dominion and Cleary stations.
The city and the NCC revealed the solution Friday at a joint news conference.
The NCC has said it supports the city’s western light-rail transit project, but the two sides have remained at odds over the 1.2-kilometre section of the proposed $980-million Richmond Underground line that would cross NCC land along the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway.
The city wants to run the line through a trench, 700 metres of which would be partly covered. But the NCC board declared in November that it would not approve the line unless it allowed unimpeded access to the Ottawa River shoreline and has a “minimal visual impact” on the parkway corridor landscape.
The city says it can’t afford a tunnel along the river, nor is it willing to support surface rail along Richmond Road or the Byron Linear Park.
Officials from both the city and NCC have been tight-lipped about developments on the file since Mayor Jim Watson and former foreign affairs minister John Baird met at the end of November and agreed to stop arguing about the matter publicly.
Baird has since resigned from his position and Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre has been named the new minister responsible for the NCC.
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The proposed solution addresses the NCC’s conditions and city’s financial concerns, while advancing the creation of a waterfront linear park, the parties said.
The sOlution was struck following a 100-day review process, led by a working group consisting of three city councillors, four NCC Board members, the city manager and the NCC’s CEO.
This group began meeting in December 2014, with the goal of finding a mutually satisfactory solution for the western extension of Confederation Line between the Dominion and Cleary stations.
The city and the NCC revealed the solution Friday at a joint news conference.
The NCC has said it supports the city’s western light-rail transit project, but the two sides have remained at odds over the 1.2-kilometre section of the proposed $980-million Richmond Underground line that would cross NCC land along the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway.
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The city wants to run the line through a trench, 700 metres of which would be partly covered. But the NCC board declared in November that it would not approve the line unless it allowed unimpeded access to the Ottawa River shoreline and has a “minimal visual impact” on the parkway corridor landscape.
The city says it can’t afford a tunnel along the river, nor is it willing to support surface rail along Richmond Road or the Byron Linear Park.
Officials from both the city and NCC have been tight-lipped about developments on the file since Mayor Jim Watson and former foreign affairs minister John Baird met at the end of November and agreed to stop arguing about the matter publicly.
Baird has since resigned from his position and Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre has been named the new minister responsible for the NCC.
mpearson@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/mpearson78
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