Crystal Beach Lakeview has an opportunity to give feedback to the City about the transportation issues we experience when travelling by car or transit. The City is beginning consultation on the Transportation Master Plan (TMP), Part 2 following the approval of TMP Part 1 in 2023.
What’s this part 1, part 2 business?
The Transportation Master Plan (TMP) is the City’s blueprint for the planning, development, and operation of its walking, cycling, transit and road networks. The TMP update has two parts:
- Part 1 set out policies that guide how the City plans, builds, operates, and maintains its transportation system. Part 1 is completed.
- Part 2 is the plan for capital infrastructure and it’s underway now. The TMP Capital Infrastructure Plan will identify the transit and road projects that are needed to meet Ottawa’s travel needs and achieve the City’s Official Plan objectives. It will also identify a subset of projects that are affordable within the City’s long-range financial plans, along with the corresponding timelines for implementation.
In other words, what projects do we need to meet our objectives of being a healthy livable city? What projects can we afford?
Two surveys—issues and spending priorities
You can give your feedback for part 2 through two surveys and you can find the surveys (in various languages) here. The deadline to complete the surveys is August 30th.
Survey #1: Mapping transportation issues lets you stick pins in a map to say where you get the most frustrated trying to get around.
Survey #2: Transportation Investment Priorities lets you say how you would prioritize the spending.
Background Information
The Engage Ottawa web site for the whole Transportation Master Plan project is at:
https://engage.ottawa.ca/transportation-master-plan .You can see what has happened with the Transportation Master Plan so far, and you can read, for example, the Transporation Trends Report (download a .zip version) which presents the results of the 2022 Origin-Destination household travel survey. The Origin Destination survey provided a snapshot of residents’ daily travel, including trip origins and destinations, modes of travel, and trip purposes. The Transportation Trends Report is 76 pages long though, so you might just want to look at a summary—the Transportation Trends Highlights document (9 pages).
Also, a discussion paper, the Needs, Opportunities and Uncertainty Report, discusses the implications of the Origin-Destination survey results on how the City plans its future transit and road networks. It also provides a summary of the approach that will be used to forecast future travel activity in the next phase of the study.
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