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The National Capital Commission and the City of Ottawa have joined forces to build segregated bike lanes in front of the United States Embassy.
The $1.7-million project will see jersey barriers on the east side of Mackenzie Avenue — installed along the roadway after the 9/11 attack — replaced with bollards, behind which segregated, bi-directional bike lanes will be built between Rideau and Murray streets.
The NCC, the city and Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury all hailed the move as a major improvement for cycling along Confederation Boulevard and say the new bikes lanes will connect to existing ones on Sussex Drive, St. Patrick Street, the Alexandra Bridge and the path along the east side of the Rideau Canal.
Artist’s rendering shows proposed bike lanes on Mackenzie Avenue outside the U.S. Embassy.
The installation of the new bollards and bike lanes is to be done in conjunction with road resurfacing work on Mackenzie scheduled for 2016.
While cyclists might cheer the news, the city’s accessibility advisory committee is upset the plan means a loss of a dozen on-street parking spaces on the east side of Mackenzie — spots the committee says could be used by people with accessible parking permits.
Removing the parking spaces could also mean a loss of $20,000 a year in revenue, the city says.
The NCC is slated to contribute $875,000 to the project, while the city will pay $825,000. Those figures don’t include the cost of resurfacing of Mackenzie Avenue, or the cost of replacing the jersey barriers with bollards, which the NCC and U.S. Embassy will cover.
The city’s transportation committee will discuss the plan when it meets next Wednesday. The NCC board will discuss it in mid-November.
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The $1.7-million project will see jersey barriers on the east side of Mackenzie Avenue — installed along the roadway after the 9/11 attack — replaced with bollards, behind which segregated, bi-directional bike lanes will be built between Rideau and Murray streets.
The NCC, the city and Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury all hailed the move as a major improvement for cycling along Confederation Boulevard and say the new bikes lanes will connect to existing ones on Sussex Drive, St. Patrick Street, the Alexandra Bridge and the path along the east side of the Rideau Canal.
Artist’s rendering shows proposed bike lanes on Mackenzie Avenue outside the U.S. Embassy.
The installation of the new bollards and bike lanes is to be done in conjunction with road resurfacing work on Mackenzie scheduled for 2016.
While cyclists might cheer the news, the city’s accessibility advisory committee is upset the plan means a loss of a dozen on-street parking spaces on the east side of Mackenzie — spots the committee says could be used by people with accessible parking permits.
Removing the parking spaces could also mean a loss of $20,000 a year in revenue, the city says.
The NCC is slated to contribute $875,000 to the project, while the city will pay $825,000. Those figures don’t include the cost of resurfacing of Mackenzie Avenue, or the cost of replacing the jersey barriers with bollards, which the NCC and U.S. Embassy will cover.
The city’s transportation committee will discuss the plan when it meets next Wednesday. The NCC board will discuss it in mid-November.
mpearson@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/mpearson78
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