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A proposed reconstruction of the western juncture of Albert and Slater streets should have a goal of turning a dead zone into a gateway for the downtown core and a redeveloped LeBreton Flats, city planners have heard.
The city’s urban design review panel has completed a formal analysis of the city’s plan to change the major east-west streets after the Confederation Line LRT opens this year.
The independent peer-review panel has experts from outside of Ottawa City Hall, including some from outside Ottawa, to critique urban design proposals before the plans go to city council.
The panel wants the city to make the new western ends of Albert and Slater streets a landmark. It will be the intersection in front of a new municipal library, which in itself will be a gateway to a redeveloped LeBreton Flats.
The city is eyeing a complete rebuild of the roads west of Bronson Avenue, part of a plan to redistribute road space through the entire Albert-Slater corridor. Albert Street is one-way westbound and Slater Street is one-way eastbound through the heart of downtown.
The Transitway will be removed from Albert and Slater streets when LRT opens, freeing up the bus-only lanes through downtown. The remaining buses bringing passengers to LRT stations will travel in the same lanes as regular vehicular traffic.
Nelson Edwards, the city’s senior project manager on the file, told the design panel last Thursday that it’s a once-in-a-generation opportunity to introduce changes to the streets, which have been under heavy bus traffic for years.
The city intends to install cycle tracks on each street between the sidewalk curb and parking spots through the core. The city hopes businesses on Albert and Slater streets will give thought to how they should animate the storefronts and sidewalks once the city has succeeded in removing the bus traffic, or what Edwards described as “cooling it all down.”
City planners are considering reducing the number of off-peak on-street parking spots. They believe thousands of indoor spaces in the area are being underused.
Panel member Ronji Borooah, the head of urban design in Markham, cautioned the city about meddling with on-street parking, knowing that motorists get testy if they can’t find parking. Get ready with a communications strategy and an outreach program, he advised.
Alex Taranu, the manager of architectural design in Brampton, warned planners about having enough space for drop-offs. It will become even more challenging to embed drop-off areas when driverless cars are legal, he said.
When it comes to the Mackenzie King Bridge, the city wants to make it a sort of civic promenade. Since it has one of the city’s best vistas to the Parliament Buildings, planners want a street design to invite people to linger and take in the views of Parliament Hill and the Rideau Canal.
The western section will involve the most work, and it’s here that the design review panel is asking the city to think deeply about the final design.
The city wants to construct Slater Street west past Bronson Avenue in a straight line, getting rid of the ramp-like road up the escarpment from Albert Street and Empress Avenue.
Emmanuelle van Rutten, director at the Moriyama & Teshima Architects’ Ottawa office, said the planners should be collaborating with the main library team to come up with a solution for the road junction. The importance of the intersection calls for its own design study, van Rutten said.
The design panel recommended the city use public art money for showpieces at each end of the corridor, rather than sprinkling art through the entire east-west stretch.
The city received praise from the design panel for putting the blueprint up for scrutiny. The design experts are usually critiquing drawings for future buildings, but this was a case of the city asking for an outside opinion on a major transportation program.
Work is moving fast. City planners want to have a road blueprint ready for political approval in April and start introducing changes in 2019.
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The city’s urban design review panel has completed a formal analysis of the city’s plan to change the major east-west streets after the Confederation Line LRT opens this year.
The independent peer-review panel has experts from outside of Ottawa City Hall, including some from outside Ottawa, to critique urban design proposals before the plans go to city council.
The panel wants the city to make the new western ends of Albert and Slater streets a landmark. It will be the intersection in front of a new municipal library, which in itself will be a gateway to a redeveloped LeBreton Flats.
The city is eyeing a complete rebuild of the roads west of Bronson Avenue, part of a plan to redistribute road space through the entire Albert-Slater corridor. Albert Street is one-way westbound and Slater Street is one-way eastbound through the heart of downtown.
The Transitway will be removed from Albert and Slater streets when LRT opens, freeing up the bus-only lanes through downtown. The remaining buses bringing passengers to LRT stations will travel in the same lanes as regular vehicular traffic.
Nelson Edwards, the city’s senior project manager on the file, told the design panel last Thursday that it’s a once-in-a-generation opportunity to introduce changes to the streets, which have been under heavy bus traffic for years.
The city intends to install cycle tracks on each street between the sidewalk curb and parking spots through the core. The city hopes businesses on Albert and Slater streets will give thought to how they should animate the storefronts and sidewalks once the city has succeeded in removing the bus traffic, or what Edwards described as “cooling it all down.”
City planners are considering reducing the number of off-peak on-street parking spots. They believe thousands of indoor spaces in the area are being underused.
Panel member Ronji Borooah, the head of urban design in Markham, cautioned the city about meddling with on-street parking, knowing that motorists get testy if they can’t find parking. Get ready with a communications strategy and an outreach program, he advised.
Alex Taranu, the manager of architectural design in Brampton, warned planners about having enough space for drop-offs. It will become even more challenging to embed drop-off areas when driverless cars are legal, he said.
When it comes to the Mackenzie King Bridge, the city wants to make it a sort of civic promenade. Since it has one of the city’s best vistas to the Parliament Buildings, planners want a street design to invite people to linger and take in the views of Parliament Hill and the Rideau Canal.
The western section will involve the most work, and it’s here that the design review panel is asking the city to think deeply about the final design.
The city wants to construct Slater Street west past Bronson Avenue in a straight line, getting rid of the ramp-like road up the escarpment from Albert Street and Empress Avenue.
Emmanuelle van Rutten, director at the Moriyama & Teshima Architects’ Ottawa office, said the planners should be collaborating with the main library team to come up with a solution for the road junction. The importance of the intersection calls for its own design study, van Rutten said.
The design panel recommended the city use public art money for showpieces at each end of the corridor, rather than sprinkling art through the entire east-west stretch.
The city received praise from the design panel for putting the blueprint up for scrutiny. The design experts are usually critiquing drawings for future buildings, but this was a case of the city asking for an outside opinion on a major transportation program.
Work is moving fast. City planners want to have a road blueprint ready for political approval in April and start introducing changes in 2019.
jwilling@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JonathanWilling
查看原文...
