Tag: Transit

Upcoming consultation: Stage 2 O-Train West Connectivity Enhancement Study

As you may be aware, the City of Ottawa is undergoing a Connectivity Enhancement Study (click to view) for all Stage 2 LRT stations. This study will answer questions such as how you will access each station and ask you whether you feel the new paths and connections will allow you to get where you need to go.

It is anticipated that the period for public comments for the stations that impact you – Lincoln Fields, Queensview, and Pinecrest – will be announced shortly, possibly this week, and be open for comments for two weeks. We strongly encourage you to participate in this study to provide feedback on the placement and appropriateness of the connections to LRT stations.

We will share more information as soon as the opportunity is available on the City’s Stage 2 LRT website. We would have preferred to host a public meeting, but given the current circumstances, we must communicate by email instead. Please contact us at qtncommunity@gmail.com if you would like to discuss further.

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Update on LRT work in Connaught Park (noise bylaw exception)

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We are sharing, on behalf of Coun. Kavanagh’s office, the following update on LRT work in Connaught Park. We hope it provides some clarification on the noise this past evening and some clarity on when it might re-occur. If you have any concerns with this work please contact the Stage 2 LRT team directly and copy Coun. Kavanaugh as well as the association if you wish to share your feedback.

KEV has been granted a noise bylaw exception for concrete pouring of one single shaft tonight June 19th from 4am – 7am in the area of the transitway.

For this one night prior to notification being sent on Monday, they’ve committed the following:

  1. Only concrete trucks will be used for one pour, and they will access the site via the Transitway only
  2. Broadband back-up alarms would be used and no other activity or equipment will be operational until daytime
  3. They are giving their word that this work will not keep residents awake or be disruptive to any residents, understanding that if this is not the same their subsequent noise by-law exemptions requests will be at risk

Then, the rest of the work would resume on Wednesday after notifications of the noise exemption have been issued.

The regular noise exemption is listed below.

KEV has been granted a noise bylaw exemption permit from June 23rd to July 31st for flyover bridge drilled shaft concrete pouring work in Connaught Park. The equipment required for these works are a drilling rig, crane, generator, and misc trucks.

The closest residents to these works are approximately 130 metres away on Connaught Ave. KEV is currently drafting a public notice with the intention of distributing the day the work is set to begin.

KEV has provided the following rationale for night work for this particular activity:

  1. We have to maintain a concrete delivery temperature of 20C for our shafts; typically ice would be used to reduce the temperature of the concrete, however since we are using a self-consolidating concrete mix we don’t have much opportunity for adding ice.
  2. Moving the concrete placement to 4am, with wetting aggregates during the daytime, and using chilled water and the allowable amount of ice is the only way for us to meet the delivery temperature requirements
  3. For these reasons we request a start time of midnight so we have enough time to clean out the shaft, get it inspected, place the rebar cage and center it, after which the concrete placement can start.

Update on Connaught Park: Your Feedback and Start of Construction

Your feedback is instrumental

We would like to thank the over 30 individuals who included us on their emails while participating in the Connaught Park landscaping plan consultation. In addition, we’re aware of many more individuals who took the time to provide thoughtful and meaningful input on this important project. We continue to work with the involved parties to ensure your suggestions are both understood and meaningfully considered – we will provide periodic updates as we pursue tangible solutions.

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While we are engaged on the LRT projects in QTN, for project updates and official communications we encourage you to subscribe to the City’s official Project newsletters – for the west extension as well as all the stations you wish to follow. Public notices, by mail, are only distributed within limited areas so to ensure you receive a copy of these important messages please make sure to subscribe to the appropriate station newsletters.

What’s next? Construction is starting

The City has made us aware of an imminent public notice related to the commencement of construction in Connaught Park (click here to access it). To begin this project, utility relocation will commence in Connaught Park next month followed by similar work on Connaught and Hanlon later this summer (~June). Prior to this commencing you will see signage, fences, and construction equipment being erected in Connaught Park (Note: the baseball diamond will become a staging site for several years).

Following this, construction on the tunnel portion of the LRT will begin – including the cut and cover section on Connaught Ave. Detours and delays are expected but access will remain throughout (e.g., steel plates as covers similar to what you might see with sewer work). Construction this year will focus primarily on the substructure with completion of the superstructure next year.

Additionally, excavation work will be beginning on the south side of the current OC Transpo facility and we have been informed that crews will be using Queensview Drive and exiting towards Pinecrest (i.e., not through the neighbourhood).

We hope that this update provides some clarity on what you might see while walking the neighbourhood during these challenging times. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact ourselves (qtncommunity@gmail.com) or the Stage 2 Project Team (stage2@ottawa.ca).