TRANSPORTATION

COMMITTEE

COMITÉ DES TRANSPORTS

 

AGENDA

ORDRE DU JOUR

 

Ottawa-Carleton Centre

Champlain Room

Time: 1:30 p.m.

Release Time:

Friday, 12:00 noon

WEDNESDAY

19 APRIL/AVRIL 2000

MERCREDI

Centre Ottawa-Carleton

Salle Champlain

Heure: 13h 30

Heure de communication:

vendredi 12 h

 

 

Committee Members / Membres du Comité:

D. Holmes (Chair/président) M. Bellemare, W. Byrne, R. Cantin, Davis, C. Doucet, H. Kreling, J. Legendre M. McGoldrick-Larsen, M. Meilleur

 

Committee Co-ordinator / Coordonnatrice du comité

Rosemary Nelson, 560-1243

 

 

CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES

That the Transportation Committee confirm the Minutes of the meeting of 5 April 2000.

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

INQUIRIES

 

PUBLIC HEARINGS

1. BANK STREET AND MCLEOD STREET INTERSECTION MODIFICATIONS  

- Director, Mobility Services and Corporate Fleet Services report dated

29 Mar 00

That the Transportation Committee recommend Council approve:

1. the proposed roadway modifications as shown in Annex C, and;

2. that westbound left turns and straight-through movements at the intersection of Bank and McLeod Street be prohibited at any time, bicycles excepted.

2. MODIFICATIONS TO PRESTON STREET TO ACCOMMODATE AN OUTDOOR PATIO AT 434 ½ PRESTON STREET  

- Director, Mobility Services and Corporate Fleet Services report dated 6 Apr 00

That Transportation Committee recommend that Council approve:

1. the functional design for the modifications to Preston Street (Regional Road 73) as illustrated in Annex B, subject to the proponent:

a. funding 50% of the total cost of the proposed road works shown; and,

b. executing a Legal agreement with respect to (a) above.

3. BRONSON AVENUE/GLADSTONE AVENUE INTERSECTION MODIFICATIONS  

- Director, Mobility Services and Corporate Fleet Services report dated 29 Mar 00

That Transportation Committee recommend Council approve:

1. the intersection modifications for Bronson Avenue at Gladstone Avenue (as shown in Annex B, Ainley Group drawing #GB-01), which incorporates the following measures;

a. Gladstone Avenue narrowings;

b. lane realignment, lane reduction and introduction of eastbound and westbound left-turn lanes for the Gladstone approaches;

c. cycling facilities for the Gladstone Avenue approaches;

d. the closure of the Petro Canada gas station easterly access situated on Gladstone Avenue at Bronson Avenue, and;

2. that staff forward the approved recommendations to the City of Ottawa, such that they may be included in the City’s tender documents and implemented as part of the Gladstone sewer/road rehabilitation and streetscaping project.

4. MODIFICATIONS TO RIVERSIDE DRIVE BETWEEN UPLANDS DRIVE AND KIMBERWICK CRESCENT TO ACCOMMODATE COGNOS EXPANSION  

- Director, Mobility Services and Corporate Fleet Services report dated 30 Mar 00

That the Transportation Committee recommends Council approve the construction of a right-turn lane on Riverside Drive at the Cognos driveway located approximately 130 m. south of Uplands Drive as described in the report subject to the proponent, Cognos Incorporated:

a. funding the total cost for the roadway modification plus any associated utility relocations, and;

b. executing legal agreements with respect to the above.

REGULAR ITEMS

5. ALTA VISTA DRIVE/SMYTH ROAD PLANNING STUDY - STAFF RESPONSE  

- Planning and Development Approvals Commissioner report dated 5 Apr 00

That Transportation Committee recommended Council approve this report as the response to the City of Ottawa resolution of 16 February 2000 (attached at Annex "A").

 

TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNALS

6. RURAL TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNALS - COST-SHARING

- Director, Mobility Services and Corporate Fleet Services report dated 31 Mar 00

That Transportation Committee recommend Council approve that the Region continue to fully fund only those intersection locations that are 100% warranted. If Committee wishes to proceed with a cost-sharing arrangement for traffic control signals in the rural municipalities for the rest of 2000, staff recommend that the following be adopted:

1. that Council agrees to enter into a cost-sharing arrangement for the installation of unwarranted traffic control signals in the rural townships, where;

a. the cost sharing formula will be based on the warrant percentage as calculated by the Council’s current traffic control signal warrant process (i.e. the Region paying the warranted share and the requesting municipality the unwarranted share), and;

b. the conditions and procedures as set out in Annex A, guide and regulate the process; and;

2. that Transportation Committee allocate funds for the Region’s share of the signals from the New Traffic Control Signal capital account to an upper limit of $500,000.00.

 

RESPONSE TO MOTIONS/INQUIRIES

7. Motorcycle Racing - Heron Park

- Inquiry TC-17-99

- Director Mobility Services and Corporate Fleet Services report dated 29 Mar 00

That Transportation Committee recommend Council approve that staff, in conjunction with the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Police Services, undertake a pilot project to assess the effectiveness of rumble strips as speed control devices, in the Heron Park area and for the specific purpose of deterring late-night motorcycle racing.

NEXT MEETING 3 May 2000