Joint Meeting

Transportation Committee and

Transit Committee

Réunion conjointe du

Comité des transports et du Comité du transport en commun.

Disposition 2/ Suite À donner 2

Wednesday, 20 June 2007

Le mercredi, 20 juin 2007

Notes: 1. Underlining indicates a new or amended recommendation approved by Committee.

Nota : 1. Le soulignement indique qu'il s'agit d'une nouvelle recommandation ou d'une recommandation modifiée approuvée par le Comité.

1. MOVING OTTAWA: THE MAYOR OF OTTAWA’S TASK FORCE ON TRANSPORTATION REPORT

EN AVANT OTTAWA : RAPPORT DU GROUPE DE TRAVAIL DU MAIRE SUR LES TRANSPORTS

ACS2007-CCS-TRC-0007 CITY-WIDE/A L’ÉCHELLE DE LA VILLE

That the Transportation Committee and Transit Committee consider the report of the Mayor’s Task Force on Transportation

RECEIVED with the approval of the following motions, which will be forwarded to City Council for consideration at its meeting of 27 June 2007.

Moved by Councillor A. Cullen:

WHEREAS the Mayor’s Task Force on Transportation has submitted its recommendations on the future of transportation in Ottawa to the Mayor in its report “Moving Ottawa: The Mayor of Ottawa’s Task Force on Transportation”;

AND WHEREAS Council has approved the scope and timing of the review of the Transportation Master Plan (TMP), including an update of the rapid transit network by November 2008;

AND WHEREAS Council recognizes that while the necessary transportation planning studies are undertaken, there is a need to move forward with interim transit investments within this Term of Council;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Committee direct staff to extract the fundamental principles underlying the Task Force recommendations, including service speed, attracting new ridership, environmental impact, alleviating pressure on the downtown core, and network integration, to be included as part of the visioning discussion at Committee in Fall 2007 as part of the RTES and TMP review;

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Task Force’s short-term and Term of Council priority capital projects be considered for inclusion as part of a Near-Term Transportation Investment report and that this report be considered by Committee on 15 August 2007;

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT staff be directed to review the operational recommendations of the Task Force report, including the evaluation of existing bus routes, security improvements at transit stations, system safety, and the greening of the transit fleet, and report back to Committee by October 2007.

CARRIED

Moved by Councillor M. Wilkinson:

WHEREAS the Environment Assessment’s for transit routes were put on hold pending the release of the Mayor’s Task Force on Transportation; and

WHEREAS the Task Force has confirmed the need to complete the transitway; and

WHEREAS the E-W environmental assessment could provide the necessary recommendations for the east and west ends of the transitway;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the staff report at the August meeting on:

a) the reinstatement of Environmental Assessments that were put on hold and,

b) a program to undertake an environmental assessment of a downtown tunnel

c) an update on the EA for the transitway from Woodroffe to Pinecrest to find a more cost-effective corridor.

CARRIED

Moved by Councillor M. Wilkinson

WHEREAS the Mayor’s Task Force has recommended completion of the transitway to the Terry Fox station;

WHEREAS the Task Force was not aware of the extension of the transitway to the Kanata West lands, including Scotiabank Place, with a further extension being considered an integral part of the Fernbank lands that were added into the urban area by the OMB;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the extension of the transitway from Terry Fox to Fernbank be added to the consideration of the Task Force recommendations.

CARRIED

Motion by Councillor C. Doucet:

Whereas the City’s Transit plans and Transit Environmental Assessments have been frozen for six months until the Mayor’s Task Force on Transportation has had sufficient time to study and make recommendations concerning the future of transit in Ottawa.

Whereas the Mayor’s Task Force has now completed its work and submitted its report to Council for consideration.

Whereas the reports recommendations compliment the city’s intra-city electric light rail plans with a regional Go Train service, similar to Toronto’s southern Ontario service.

Whereas A Go Train service for Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec will create more customers for the city’s intra-city service by providing a new rider base and reduce the need for costly, provincial road expansions as we are experiencing along highway 7 to Carleton Place and on the Quebec side of the river.

Be It Resolved: That City Council accept the report’s regional Go Train recommendations and petition the province of Ontario for the establishment of this system based on the Mayor’s Task Force recommended lines, Alexandria, Smith’s Falls, Kanata North, Stittsville/Carp/ Cumberland etc. and that this investment be made in a timely way as has been accomplished for Toronto and Southern Ontario.

CARRIED

Moved by Councillor G. Bédard:

That the Task Force Recommendation concerning separating OC Transpo from the City bureaucracy and setting up an arm’s-length operating entity with an appointed board fully accountable to City Council be the subject of a report to a joint meeting of the Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee, and the Transit Committee within 6 months.

CARRIED

Moved by Councillor J. Legendre:

That the downtown solution be undertaken once the Environmental Assessment is completed for the City Centre.

CARRIED