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A group advocating for the Prince of Wales Bridge is asking federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau to not let the City of Ottawa off the hook so easily when it comes to the interprovincial crossing.
The grassroots Ottawa River Bridge (ORB), which has a core group of about five people organizing the effort, wrote to Garneau on Monday suggesting that the federal cabinet shouldn’t rescind an order from the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA).
The order compels the city to restore the rail line north of Bayview transit station so that it would be operable within 12 months of the agency giving running rights to another rail company. The order also applies to the city-owned bridge spanning the river. The other option offered by the CTA is for the city to discontinue the line, effectively removing the city’s control.
The city wants Garneau to step in, and is also asking the Federal Court of Appeal to consider hearing a challenge to the CTA’s decision.
“The concerns expressed by the City of Ottawa are legitimate. Still, we believe that rescinding this decision would allow for the city’s inaction on the bridge and railway to continue,” ORB member Elena Prokopenko says in the letter to Garneau.
The ORB would rather Garneau vary the order. The group suggests a one-year extension that would see the city return to the CTA and explain its intended use of the bridge. By April 30, 2019, the city should present a three-year strategic plan to bring the bridge to a state where it can be operational within 12 months, the ORB says.
“In addition, you may wish for the City of Ottawa and Ville de Gatineau to report back to your office in April 2019 to provide an update on their discussions regarding interprovincial transit, an activity that Mayor Watson committed to in his 2018 State of the City address,” Prokopenko tells Garneau in her letter.
The city doesn’t have the money to fix the bridge and return it to an operational rail line. It’s part of the city’s long-term transit plans — Mayor Jim Watson calls it “Phase 3B” of the third stage of LRT, with Phase 3A being LRT to Kanata — but there’s no timeline. The mayor is against spending $10 million to temporarily repurpose the bridge as an interprovincial pedestrian and cycling path.
In his own letter to Garneau earlier this month, Watson complained that the CTA made its decision without considering the discussions between local politicians about connecting the Ottawa and Gatineau transit systems using the bridge.
The CTA started the investigation after receiving information from the Moose Consortium, which raised concerns about the city removing tracks near Bayview station during the construction of the joint Confederation Line and Trillium Line station. Moose (standing for Mobility Ottawa-Outaouais: Systems and Enterprises) has ambitions of starting an interprovincial rail network using the Prince of Wales Bridge.
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The grassroots Ottawa River Bridge (ORB), which has a core group of about five people organizing the effort, wrote to Garneau on Monday suggesting that the federal cabinet shouldn’t rescind an order from the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA).
The order compels the city to restore the rail line north of Bayview transit station so that it would be operable within 12 months of the agency giving running rights to another rail company. The order also applies to the city-owned bridge spanning the river. The other option offered by the CTA is for the city to discontinue the line, effectively removing the city’s control.
The city wants Garneau to step in, and is also asking the Federal Court of Appeal to consider hearing a challenge to the CTA’s decision.
“The concerns expressed by the City of Ottawa are legitimate. Still, we believe that rescinding this decision would allow for the city’s inaction on the bridge and railway to continue,” ORB member Elena Prokopenko says in the letter to Garneau.
The ORB would rather Garneau vary the order. The group suggests a one-year extension that would see the city return to the CTA and explain its intended use of the bridge. By April 30, 2019, the city should present a three-year strategic plan to bring the bridge to a state where it can be operational within 12 months, the ORB says.
“In addition, you may wish for the City of Ottawa and Ville de Gatineau to report back to your office in April 2019 to provide an update on their discussions regarding interprovincial transit, an activity that Mayor Watson committed to in his 2018 State of the City address,” Prokopenko tells Garneau in her letter.
The city doesn’t have the money to fix the bridge and return it to an operational rail line. It’s part of the city’s long-term transit plans — Mayor Jim Watson calls it “Phase 3B” of the third stage of LRT, with Phase 3A being LRT to Kanata — but there’s no timeline. The mayor is against spending $10 million to temporarily repurpose the bridge as an interprovincial pedestrian and cycling path.
In his own letter to Garneau earlier this month, Watson complained that the CTA made its decision without considering the discussions between local politicians about connecting the Ottawa and Gatineau transit systems using the bridge.
The CTA started the investigation after receiving information from the Moose Consortium, which raised concerns about the city removing tracks near Bayview station during the construction of the joint Confederation Line and Trillium Line station. Moose (standing for Mobility Ottawa-Outaouais: Systems and Enterprises) has ambitions of starting an interprovincial rail network using the Prince of Wales Bridge.
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