traffic & transit

_ (press release) _ ** Ottawa ** – Queen Street between Lyon Street and O’Connor Street will reopen to east- and westbound traffic starting Tuesday, November 22. This section of Queen Street has been operating as a one-way since April to allow for work related to the Queen Street Renewal project as part of the O-Train Confederation Line Light Rail Transit (LRT) project. ...

A pair of Blackburn Hamlet residents are fed up with what they call shoddy transit service and are circulating a petition to ask OC Transpo to make changes. Residents Jean Clark and Erica Fraser started the petition to Ottawa’s transit commission a few weeks ago. ...

_ (press release) _ ** Ottawa ** – The City of Ottawa wants to remind residents that overnight parking bans and on-street parking fees have changed in the past year. ** Fee changes ** The annual fee structure for on-street parking permits remains unchanged from 2015, but monthly fees now change by season. ...

_ (press release) _ ** Ottawa ** – Construction is underway for a vital transit link for west-end residents, the West Transitway Extension. The project was celebrated today by Mayor Jim Watson, Councillor Keith Egli, Chair of the City’s Transportation Committee, Councillor Stephen Blais, Chair of Transit Committee, west end Councillors and the Honourable Bob Chiarelli, Minister of Infrastructure for Ontario and MPP for Ottawa-West Nepean. ...

_ (press release) _ (Ottawa, ON) –The Ottawa Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police has investigated a lost wheel incident on Highway 417. At approximately 6:18pm on November 06th 2016, a pick-up truck was traveling E/B on Highway 417 near Riverside Dr. ...

_ ** Update: The Ottawa Sun reported that the signs were the result of a computer code error. ** _ If you’re in North Gower, keep on driving your tractor, it’s totally cool. These signs should be ignored, Councillor Scott Moffatt tweeted. ...

Twitter user @frpaul1 uploaded this video to YouTube Tuesday with some close calls on the new O’Connor bike lane, mostly with pedestrians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAl3ktMNaJk  “Hopefully the adjustment period to the new bike lane will be short. I really want this to be successful infrastructure,” he wrote in the video description. ...

_ (press release) _ ** Ottawa ** – The O’Connor Street Bikeway, a new cycling link that, makes bike travel through downtown Ottawa easier and safer, was officially opened today by Mayor Jim Watson, Somerset Ward Councillor Catherine McKenney and Capital Ward Councillor David Chernushenko. ...

_ (press release) _ ** Ottawa ** – Rideau Street between Sussex Drive and Dalhousie Street will be closed to all vehicular traffic until the end of December. This closure takes effect on Wednesday, October 19 at 8 p.m. The closure is necessary to accommodate construction on the O-Train Confederation Line light rail transit (LRT) project. ...

_ (press release) _ ** Ottawa ** – New on-street markings have been installed along Somerset Street East in Sandy Hill to improve the cycling network between Range Road and King Edward Avenue. ** Advisory Cycling Lanes (Range Road to Chapel Street) ** ...