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TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE AND TRANSIT COMMITTEE JOINT REPORT 9
1. TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN (TMP) UPDATE, 2008
JOINT COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS AS AMENDED
That City Council:
1. Approve the 2008 Transportation Master Plan (TMP), as detailed in Document 10, as amended, including:
a. The location of the southern terminus of the North-South LRT service at the Riverside South Town Centre;
b. The addition of the Hospital Corridor BRT;
c. The supplementary transit corridors as outlined in Table 4;
d. The road projects as outlined in Annex B of the TMP document;
2. Direct staff to prepare a submission, including any necessary studies and business plans, to Build Canada and any other federal and provincial government grants or programs, to seek partnership funds for Increment 1 transit projects in the Transportation Master Plan following final budget approval.
3. Direct staff to undertake the following actions to initiate the implementation and mitigate risks as outlined in the KPMG Risk Assessment (Document 8):
a. Examine a range of procurement options and explore any other existing and potential fiscal tools that could be used for the top priority projects, and report back to the appropriate Standing Committee(s) and Council in February, 2009;
b. Expand the scope of the Downtown Ottawa Transit Tunnel Environmental Assessment to include the LRT extension to Tunney’s Pasture and Blair Station;
c. Commence work immediately on the Environmental Assessment for the Western Parkway Corridor, subject to budget approval;
d. Seek delegated regulatory authority from the federal Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities.
4. Direct staff to include approved transit projects in the Draft 2009 Transit Capital Budget, to be tabled in January 2009.
5. Refer the following Motion to budget:
That final Council approval for each arterial road project be contingent on having received and reviewed Class A estimates which are less than a year old for each project.
6. Refer the following to staff:
That construction of the West Transitway from Pinecrest to the Southwest Transitway be included in Phase 1 of the Transportation Master Plan Transit Network.
7. Amend Table 7.2 Modified Arterial needs: “Recommended Deletions of 2008 TMP compared to 2003 TMP” to include the widening of Albert Street to 6 lanes.
8. Approve that the Prince of Wales Bridge and other potential corridors be identified on the maps/schedules as a proposed interprovincial transit corridor.
9. Approve that the TMP include a statement that the projects included in Phase 1, Increment 1 be approved.
10. Approve that the projects identified beyond Increment 1 be considered as Council’s current vision and that they be revisited prior to the completion of Increment 1 projects.
11. Direct staff to contact Infrastructure Ontario and ascertain interest in their implementation of the rapid transit portion of the Transportation Master Plan on behalf of the City.
12. Direct staff to contact the provincial and federal governments and ascertain interest in financing including undertaking a shared long term debenture method to finance the Transportation Master Plan.
13. Approve the addition of a Recommendation 3e as follows:
Direct staff to examine the methodology and costs for the implementation of full transit priority measures along the Rideau/Montreal Road corridor.
14. Direct staff to review further the proposal for single tracking electric LRT to Riverside South to seek opportunities to advance the project.
15. Amend Table 4 at King Edward Avenue, Sussex to Rideau to read under “Proposed Transit Service Improvements” Dedicated southbound bus lanes from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
16. Instruct staff to look into the feasibility and cost of temporarily making two lanes on Riverside Drive “buses only” and using the planned buses only lanes on the Queensway compared to the $40 million cost of the bridge (Nicholas connection).
17. Approve that any former LRT corridors converted to preferred BRT routes include a process of public consultations.
2. centrepointe town centre - baseline station/ transitway functional design and algonquin/city archives projects
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
That City Council:
1. Approve the Baseline Station/Transitway Functional Design Plans, as described in this report and as filed with the City Clerk, to guide Rapid Transit Network and Centrepointe Town Centre (CTC) planning and implementation including that for the City’s Archives/Library Technical Services Facility and the Algonquin College Project;
2. Approve the updated CTC Concept Plan, attached as Document 1, as being consistent with the Baseline Station/Transitway Functional Design Plans as set out in Recommendation 1; and the development plans for the City’s Archives/Library Technical Services Facility and the Algonquin College Project;
3. Approve the initiation of the environmental assessment for the long-term rapid transit network from Baseline to Norice, as well as the preliminary/detailed design and construction work required to implement the first phase of the Baseline Station/Transitway Functional Design Plans to support the CTC Concept Plan and implementation, including the provision of City funding in the amount of $23.6 million to cover the estimated cost of immediate infrastructure investments as set out in Document 2 (Table 1);
4. Authorize the transfer of funds in the amount of $0.6M from account 904822 Pedestrian Crossing (Baseline-Algonquin) to account 904683 South West Transitway (Baseline-Norice);
5. Authorize the transfer of funds in the amount of $10M from Investing in Ontario revenues and $6.6M from the Transit Capital Reserve Fund, subject to approval as part of Council’s consideration of the draft Operating and Capital Budgets scheduled for the first week of December 2008;
6. Identify, as a priority within the Transportation Master Plan (TMP) Phase 1 Increment 1 Transit Implementation Priority the $44.9M necessary, as set out in Document 2 (Table 2), for the next phase of the Baseline Station/Transitway Functional Design Plans to immediately follow the first phase in 2009;
7. Waive City policy pertaining to the policy for the disposal of real property including internal and external circulation, notice and marketing of surplus properties, and declare the parcel of vacant land, consisting of approximately 1.115 hectares (2.85 acres), being part of Lot 34 Concession 2 Rideau Front and shown as Parcel 1 on the Annex “A” plan set out in Document 3, as surplus to the City's needs;
8. Authorize the transfer of the property outlined in Recommendation 6 to Algonquin College to allow the College to proceed with the implementation of Phase I of the Algonquin Project (the Centre for Construction Trades and Building Sciences) subject to the execution of an agreement between the City and Algonquin College based on the conditions set out in Document 4, and authorize the City Manager to prepare and execute the agreement; and
9. Direct staff to continue to work with Algonquin College on the planning and implementation of Phase II of the Algonquin Project as well as exploring joint development opportunities for the City and the College in implementing the remainder of the updated CTC Concept Plan as set out in Document 1, including securing additional public and private sector funding to the benefit of both parties.
TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE REPORT 23A
1. bus time point zones for the société de transport de l’outaouais (sto) – king edward avenue, george street and york street
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS AS AMENDED
That Council:
1. Reaffirm the removal of the bus waiting areas on York Street, George Street and King Edward Avenue, and designate a bus waiting area on the east side of Cumberland Street between Rideau and George Street to be in effect at all times;
2. Approve the designation of a bus-only lane, southbound, on King Edward Avenue, from Monday to Friday, 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., with implementation to occur as phases of the construction are completed;
3. Direct City staff to carry out a study of the area between St-Patrick Street, King Edward, Laurier Avenue East and Sussex in consultation with appropriate stakeholders, to identify and consider all traffic operational measures as well as bus waiting areas for STO and OC Transpo operations in Ottawa, including any necessary changes to transit routings, and to report back to Transportation Committee and Council by April 2009 on measures to improve the overall situation;
4. Approve that funding for this study be considered in the 2009 budget;
5. Direct staff to continue to work to identify any required changes to OC Transpo inter-provincial services resulting from Council’s directions on STO operations in Ottawa, and to report back to Transit Committee as required;
6. Approve that compliance monitoring of laybys be carried out in consideration of the community and report back to committee;
7. Direct staff to continue to work with STO both directly and as part of the Interprovincial Rapid Transit Study to identify and recommend the longer-term arrangements for transit services between Gatineau and Ottawa, to report back to Transporttion Committee, Transit Committee and Council one year from now, or earlier at the conclusion of the Interprovincial study, and to continue the interim use of the Union terminus until that time; and,
8. Direct staff to update Committee on the opportunity to use the MacDonald-Cartier Bridge as a lay-by for STO buses; and that staff be directed to pursue this matter with the appropriate Federal agencies and report back to Committee.
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