At the last Annual General Meeting, we handed out a survey which asked: What neighbourhood issues are affecting you? Traffic: Too fast? Too much? Safety issues? Transit, cycling, walking: Can you do these comfortably? New development: Construction problems? Shadowing? Density? Safety: Break-ins? Other safety issues? Anything else? What are the possible solutions? What do you think would make our neighbourhood better?
Member #1 on issues or problems
-Overnight parking on Melrose between Ruskin and Carling. Double-parking both sides of street. U-turns. Blocks the traffic – my route out of my neighbourhood.
Possible solutions or ideas: More traffic enforcement on this block.
-Need an additional pedestrian crossing of Driveway/Prince of Wales, e.g. if you want to walk from ornamental gardens to arboretum.
Possible solutions or ideas: Maybe a roundabout?
Member #2 on issues or problems
-Integrated bike lanes
Possible solutions or ideas: More Laurier Street extensions into the neighbourhood.
-Density (intensification)
Possible solutions or ideas: Work more with the developers to find solutions. Urban intensification is a given and it will affect us so we need to keep city planners accountable and look for ways to encourage development so they work with us.
-Transit
Possible solutions or ideas: Encourage the LRT on Carling. Spending billions to put rail where we already have a transit system does not help diversity the use or destinations it serves. Encourage OC Transpo - through counsellors to reduce suburban transit for urban use.
Member #3 on issues or problems
-Speed on neighbourhood streets
Possible solutions or ideas: Reduce speed limit, more on street parking. NO speed bumps.
-Don’t find a real problem with volume of traffic
-Cycling lanes. More!
-Density not really a problem, the other alternative is urban sprawl – ugly, costly.
Possible solutions or ideas: Work with developers to come up with solutions.
Member #4 on issues or problems
None. Everything is great.
Member #5 on issues or problems
-Traffic volume & speed
Possible solutions or ideas: Traffic plan, calming, 40 km/hour
-Trucks on Fairmont
Possible solutions or ideas: Signs
-Development and density
Possible solutions or ideas: Where is the holistic approach rather than piecemeal tackling of the impacts.
Member #6 on issues or problems
-Increasing traffic on Bayswater Avenue – difficult to get out of driveway – more dangerous for community –traffic is from new Hickory development.
Possible solutions or ideas: Divert traffic from Hickory development onto Carling.
-No infrastructure, grocery stores, etc. -community that encourages people to use cars.
Possible solutions or ideas: Build infrastructure – grocery stores, drug stores, etc. into community development plan
Member #7 on issues or problems
-The Ruskin lot that the Ottawa Hospital now wants to build a garage on is not Hospital property. Belongs to City and has a 30 year no construction agreement signed by the hospital and neigbourhood.
Possible solutions or ideas: Transit is the solution. If structure to be built then use the hospital space available on Carling Avenue and thereby not have traffic through the community.
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