Transit
A STATION FOR STITTSVILLE
The quality and reliability of transit has deteriorated over the past several years especially for us in Stittsville, letting down riders who rely on it and pushing away those who want to use it.
Stittsville needs and deserves a bus station to serve as a central transit hub for the community and fundamentally restructure how transit serves us. With a bus station, we can increase transit local coverage by anchoring more local routes within the community to the bus station, we can run a more direct service to downtown Ottawa from the Stittsville station, and we can better connect to other communities like Bells Corners and Algonquin College down Hazeldean Road and run regular service to Carp and Richmond.
Improving Bus Infrastructure
Support the expansion of bus lanes, Bus Rapid Transitways, and transit priority signaling to improve transit speed, efficiency, and quality of bus services for riders.
Supplementing with On-Demand Transit
Explore a pilot of a city-run on-demand ridesharing/taxi service similar to Metro Micro in Los Angeles to fill gaps in our transit system and service, particularly for rural residents and communities.
Community Planning
PROACTIVE PLANNING FOR GROWTH
Infrastructure and services are getting outpaced by the speed of development in Stittsville but, at the same time, housing and growth are needed to address the housing crisis and support the community.
A Community Design Plan (CDP) for Hazeldean Road, taking inspiration from the CDP for Stittsville Main Street, would allow for the community, not developers or the province, to guide and plan what Hazeldean Road should look like. A CDP allows the community to plan proactively for the housing and growth needed to support the new members of our community while taking the big picture context of ensuring the infrastructure and services needed to be able to adapt and support the growth of our community.
Ensuring Benefits from Developments
Develop a Community Benefits Agreement framework for Ottawa, similar to the one established in Toronto, to ensure that residents are ensured benefits from new developments in their neighbourhood.
Completing the Health Hub
Continue the work started by Councillor Gower on the development of the Kanata-Stittsville Primary Care Health Hub and commit to seeing it through to its completion.
Road Safety
SAFE STREETS FOR ALL
Stittsville's roads are becoming busier and increasing the risks of serious collisions and yet Ottawa only plans to end fatalities and serious injuries on our roads by 2035.
A comprehensive Vision Zero Action Plan is needed to more quickly improve road safety in Stittsville for the cyclists biking on our roads, for the students walking to school, and for the drivers in our community. A more ambitious timeline to implement policy changes like restricting right turns on red and to move through our infrastructure backlog faster including the upgrades of Stittsville Main Street and Fernbank Road is needed to meet the goal of Vision Zero sooner and make our roads safer all.
Closing Connectivity Gaps
Fill in the gaps of unconnected and broken paths, abruptly ending and missing sidewalks, and the lack of safe and accessible crosswalks throughout Stittsville like along West Ridge Drive and Iber Road.
Supporting School Streets Initiative
Support school streets initiatives to create car-free zones at schools during drop-off and pick-up that will create safe environments for students walking and biking to school.
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