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Mere months before the opening of Ottawa’s Confederation Line LRT, Gatineau city council will decide on Tuesday whether it will give the green light to planning its own light rail system.
Council is largely basing its decision on input from its municipal transit agency, the Société de transport de l’Outaouais. A second study will be made available in the next year and will elaborate on potential routes and budget estimates. It could also elaborate on how it would affect Ottawa’s transit system, such as connecting with the Confederation Line’s Bayview station, said Aylmer ward Coun. Audrey Bureau.
“I think it’s prudent to say that we are going to depose it or advocate for the project that’s the most ambitious and more extensive.”
Bureau said council could decide to change the plan back to buses pending the release of the second STO study, but at least the provincial government will have already prioritized the more extensive system. If Gatineau goes ahead with the project, it would afford more flexibility to the city later on.
Bureau said it’s important to be “precautious and ambitious” with these projects to assure funding from the provincial and federal levels of government.
It’s been five years since the National Capital Commission, in partnership with the City of Ottawa and the STO, released a report on how to best integrate transit between Ottawa and Gatineau. According to Canadian Census data from 2016, 19.6 per cent of Ottawans use public transit to get to work, compared with 14.5 per cent of people in Gatineau.
The Interprovincial Transit Strategy Report proposed expanding the LRT from Bayview station, across the Prince of Wales Bridge, up to Montcalm in Hull, with an alternate route snaking down from Hull to the Rideau Centre. It was recommended in the report that the “extension of O-Train to Gatineau” be implemented by 2021.
Streetcar service once ran across the Alexandra Bridge between Hull and Ottawa, but when the Hull Urban Transport Company was formed in 1946, it was the end of the line for streetcars on the Quebec side. Streetcars on the Ottawa side were discontinued in 1959 thanks to soaring electricity prices and the increased popularity of diesel buses.
Now, more than 50 years later, Gatineau and Ottawa have established a joint committee to discuss interprovincial transportation issues.
“We see that the two cities want to work together and we want to have a technology to be able to respond to the needs of a region, and not just as two distinct cities.”
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Council is largely basing its decision on input from its municipal transit agency, the Société de transport de l’Outaouais. A second study will be made available in the next year and will elaborate on potential routes and budget estimates. It could also elaborate on how it would affect Ottawa’s transit system, such as connecting with the Confederation Line’s Bayview station, said Aylmer ward Coun. Audrey Bureau.
“I think it’s prudent to say that we are going to depose it or advocate for the project that’s the most ambitious and more extensive.”
Bureau said council could decide to change the plan back to buses pending the release of the second STO study, but at least the provincial government will have already prioritized the more extensive system. If Gatineau goes ahead with the project, it would afford more flexibility to the city later on.
Bureau said it’s important to be “precautious and ambitious” with these projects to assure funding from the provincial and federal levels of government.
It’s been five years since the National Capital Commission, in partnership with the City of Ottawa and the STO, released a report on how to best integrate transit between Ottawa and Gatineau. According to Canadian Census data from 2016, 19.6 per cent of Ottawans use public transit to get to work, compared with 14.5 per cent of people in Gatineau.
The Interprovincial Transit Strategy Report proposed expanding the LRT from Bayview station, across the Prince of Wales Bridge, up to Montcalm in Hull, with an alternate route snaking down from Hull to the Rideau Centre. It was recommended in the report that the “extension of O-Train to Gatineau” be implemented by 2021.
Streetcar service once ran across the Alexandra Bridge between Hull and Ottawa, but when the Hull Urban Transport Company was formed in 1946, it was the end of the line for streetcars on the Quebec side. Streetcars on the Ottawa side were discontinued in 1959 thanks to soaring electricity prices and the increased popularity of diesel buses.
Now, more than 50 years later, Gatineau and Ottawa have established a joint committee to discuss interprovincial transportation issues.
“We see that the two cities want to work together and we want to have a technology to be able to respond to the needs of a region, and not just as two distinct cities.”
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