City of Ottawa - Alta Vista Ward 18

CITY SERVICES

Weakness: Public Transportation Services

• Underserved communities
• Irregularity
• Unreliability
• Distance
• Cost
• Lack of options

However...

• LRT
• O-Train

Strength: "Smart City"

• Adequate internet access across the city
• More efficient online access to city services

PRIORITIES FOR 2017

• Strengthening services and affordability
• Supporting community priorities, arts, economy
• Investment in sustainability
• Improvements in transportation
• Other specifics:
• Limiting property tax increase to 2%
• EquiPass
• 3.1% increase in community and social services investment
• $16 million investment in affordable housing and homelessness programs

City of Ottawa - Alta Vista Ward 18

CITY OF OTTAWA MANDATE

• Accountable and transparent municipal governance
• Guided by 7 principles

• Open decision-making
• Ethical operations
• Financial and physical resources managed effectively
• Accessible information
• Timely responses
• Accountability documents made public
• Every delegation of power has an accountability mechanism

CITY OF TTAWA

SOLUTIONS

Safe Streets Program

• Radar signs rotated through the ward
• Traffic calming lawn signs
• Centre line flex signs
• Speed pavement markings
• Liaison

TRAFFIC & SPEEDING IN ALTA VISTA

• Number one issue in the community
• One of the top service requests for Ottawa police

POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS

• Appeasing commuters and residents poses a public policy challenge
• Demands for efficient public transit

TRANSPARENCY

• City of Ottawa and Councillor Cloutier have encouraged input from the community
• Monthly updates on completed work and potential annoyance forecasts are available online

AVTC - A NECESSITY

ALTA VISTA

TRANSPORTATION

CORRIDOR (AVTC)

• Critical levels of traffic and congestion
• Will allow for growth and development in Alta Vista
• Hospital Link will improve transit service to the complex

SOLUTIONS

"The problem is in our ward, but the solution is outside our ward."

- Councillor Jean Cloutier

• Improved public transit
• Light rail transit (LRT)
• O-Train extension

AVTC - HOSPITAL LINK

• Over 25% of the population in the Billings Bridge - Alta Vista area is over 60 years of age

TRAFFIC &

AVTC - HOSPITAL LINK

• An important link between Riverside Drive and the Transitway to the Hospital Ring
• Short term:

SPEEDING

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