1. 2004
TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE BUDGET REVIEW
EXAMEN DU BUDGET DE 2004 POUR LE COMITÉ DES
TRANSPORTS
ACS2004-CRS-FIN-0016
That the
Transportation Committee consider, for recommendation to Council, the
applicable 2004 Draft Operating Budget and 2004 Draft Capital Budget, as
amended by the
following:
2004 DRAFT OPERATING BUDGET - Transportation, Utilities and Public Works -
Schedule 3 – Service Reductions – Enhanced Service Standard Reductions
Re: Road and Sidewalk Operations, Road Maintenance & Boulevard
Cleanliness:
1.
That Item TW3.14 (Page 234 of the 2004 Draft Operating Estimates) –
“Eliminate the painting of stop bars and crosswalk markings on residential
streets” - not be approved.
Re: Traffic Safety, Investigation and Studies:
2.
That Item TW3.24 (Page 238 of the 2004 Draft Operating Estimates) –
“Eliminate grant fro Children’s Safety Village (Ottawa-Carleton Safety
Council)” – not be approved.
Re: Active and Alternative Transportation Facilities:
3.
That Item TW3.27 (Page 239 of the 2004 Draft Operating Estimates) –
“Reduce the Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Outreach Program (including
cycling and walking encouragement and educational initiatives)” – not be
approved.
Re: Transit Services – Public
Transit – Customer Service and Customer Information
4.
That Item TW3.29 (Page 240 of the 2004 Draft Operating Estimates) –
“Reduce the quantity of route timetables printed and distributed” – out of the
$61,000 proposed reduction $32,000 not
be approved.
Schedule 3 – Service Reductions – Base Service
Standard Reductions
Re: Road and Sidewalk Operations – Road Maintenance & Boulevard
Cleanliness
5.
That Item TW3.44 (Page 251 of the 2004 Draft Operating Estimates) –
“Eliminate the removal of non-offensive graffiti such as tagging, spray painted
signs, etc., from roadside, City property such as traffic boxes, signs, bridge
structures, etc. and continue to remove only hate and offensive graffiti” – not
be approved.
6.
That Item TW3.46 (Page 251 of the 2004 Draft Operating Estimates) –
“Eliminate routine maintenance of roadside ditches adjacent to rural roads” –
not be approved.
Re: Sidewalk and Pathway
Operations
7.
That Item TW3.48 (Page 252 of the 2004 Draft Operating Estimates) –
“Eliminate winter damage repairs to the right-of-way (City boulevards and
City-owned property adjacent to sidewalks) damaged by winter snow clearing
operations” – not be approved.
8.
That Item TW3.50 (Page 252 of the 2004 Draft Operating Estimates) –
“Eliminate the practice of repairing discontinuous sections of concrete
sidewalks” – not be approved.
Re: Traffic Management
Services – Traffic Safety, Investigation and Studies
9.
That Item TW3.52 (Page 253 of the 2004 Draft Operating Estimates) –
“Eliminate Adult School Crossing Guard Program (all 22 locations)” – not be
approved.
Re: Transit Services – Public Transit
10.
That Item TW3.53 (Page 254 of the 2004 Draft Operating Estimates) –
“Reduce hours of operation of the telephone transit information call centre;
reduce staffing levels during the hours that the call centre is open; and
reduce staffing levels responding to e-mail enquiries” – not be approved.
11.
That Item TW3.54 (Page 254 of the 2004 Draft Operating Estimates)
–“Reduce the interior bus cleaning program from two to one cleaning per year” –
not be approved.
12.
That Item TW3.55 Stage Two (Pages 255-258 of the 2004 Draft Operating
Estimates) – “Reductions of hours of service or complete elimination of
selected routes, which have poor financial performance, low ridership, or
convenient alternatives available” – not be approved.
13.
That Item TW3.56 Stage Three (Pages 258-262 of the 2004 Draft Operating
Estimates) – “Reductions of hours of service or complete elimination of
selected routes, which have poor financial performance, low ridership, or
convenient alternatives available” – not be approved.
2004 DRAFT CAPITAL BUDGET -
Transportation, Utilities and Public Works
Re: Cycling Program
14.
That Order No. 903022 (Page 338 of the Draft Capital Budget– 2004
Detailed Project Listing) – Cycling Program – Education and Promotion, to accommodate the Cycling
Promotion Project, be funded from the TDM Works-in-Progress.
15.
That, when the $17 million Federal Goods and Services Tax (GST) arrive,
a part of it be applied to restore the capital costs associated with growth for
the transit system.
16.
That the following motion be referred to staff for a report to Committee
for consideration for the 2005 Budget:
That the Urban
Transit Area (UTA) be expanded to include all areas, which currently receive an
urban transit service standards; and that the additional revenues be included
in the 2004 Budget.
CARRIED as
amended
2. ROAD SAFETY AUDIT
vÉrification de sÉcuritÉ
routiÈre
Referred from
Transportation committee meeting 4 feb 04
WHEREAS
the widening of Bronson Avenue in front of Carleton University has produced a
nine lane intersection at Sunnyside and Bronson and average speeds above 70
km/h in front of the university;
AND
WHEREAS this corridor is a heavily traveled pedestrian crossing for Carleton
students and other users of Carleton's facilities;
AND
WHEREAS there have been 2 fatalities in the four years since the road was
widened in front of Carleton University and several serious injuries;
AND
WHEREAS statistics show that the severity of accidents jumps with every 10
km/hr of increased speed;
BE IT RESOLVED that the staff of the City of Ottawa
commence immediately a road safety audit to bring improvements to the Bronson
corridor in front of Carleton University.
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