A bridge too close: Residents gird for Kettle Island fight (Ottawa Citizen)
September 23rd, 2008 Posted in News and Commentary
Be sure to read the front page story in the Sept. 23rd Ottawa Citizen, which is very supportive of stopping the Kettle Island bridge. Click here to see the article.
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September 25th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Other then environmental issues. I don’t understand why Ottawa, nor Ontario’s resident should pay for a bridge that only quebecois will use. We already pay the prime fees to have the prestige to live on this side of the river. Now we have to deployed our community, our landscape, our funds to accomodate a population that choose to live on the other side to save money.
September 25th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
A few links from the local news today..
http://www.eastottawa.ca/article-253531-Kettle-Island-bridge-debate-boils-over.html
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=50af0738-330e-4c78-8b40-5b6e6d2d8b6b&p=1
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=7d5e6350-b494-40ea-82b9-a2e1c012c783
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=a21af44e-e095-460f-92b7-c0ee1ab9609e
Thanks for taking the time to maintain this site!
September 25th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
It’s a shame that both the Sun and the CBC give the impression that these were all Manor Park residents, when in fact the people came from a variety of communities. If the rest of Ottawa perceive that it’s simply one neighborhood complaining, they will have no mercy on Kettle Island.
It’s important to stress that this affects a dozen neighborhoods, and for that matter, everyone in Ottawa who loves our green space, and cultural icons like the RCMP Musical Ride.
September 26th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
I’m really shocked to learn about the Kettle Island Bridge project. The article in the Citizen is the first I’ve heard of it. I live in Rockliffe Mews. This development has been here 8 years. It is relatively new. Most of the homeowners in this neighbourhood have only recently been able to landscape their homes, install air-conditioning, etc.etc. – the luxuries one can indulge in over time, but for which there is seldom any real recompense when selling. If we are forced to relocate by this development, we will all lose a significant investment, not to mention the privilege of living in the community we have all chosen. One of the delights of living in Rockliffe Park, and one of the reasons we chose to live here as opposed to buying a bigger house in Orleans, is the proximity to both natural landscapes and the city centre. We paid more for our home because we very much wanted to back onto protected land, rather than face another home. It would be nigh impossible to find this sort of location again at going real estate rates. Quite apart from which, I don’t want to move. I like my home, my neighbours, the community and the location.
These objections are, of course, purely subjective. However, it is clear from the little reading I have done that this project will destroy for all Ottawans a very beautiful and unspoiled area of the city, and that it will not, in the long term, solve any of the motivating traffic issues.
I’ll certainly be keeping an eye on developments henceforth.
Thank you for this site and for keeping us all up to date.
September 26th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Remember that absurd boat ride with the press put on by the Orleans councillors.
I think that our group’s leaders and/or politicians should put on our own press conference. We could call it, “what is behind those trees” and bring the press to the neighbourhoods beside the Aviation Parkway. Show them the high density developments on Ogilivy Road. The executive townhouses on Cummings. Children playing in the school yard at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel elementary school (right beside Aviation Parkway). Show them the high density apartments at Montreal Road. The Montfort Hospital. The hundreds of workers at CMHC. The Rockcliffe Base which will some day be neighbourhoods. Say, what if, one of those transports is carrying chlorine gas or propane and there is an accident. What about the pollution (diesel is the worst). Show them how the NCC solution to King Edward is to make the same mistakes at Aviation Parkway. Tell them to weigh that.
September 27th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
le choix privilégié du corridor 5 est aberrant. Nous habitons le projet domiciliaire Tecumseh et cette nouvelle route passerait a moins de 30m de la ligne de notre terrain. La pollution, le bruit et la vibration seraient INACCEPTABLES. Nous nous opposons fermement a ce choix. De plus, pourquoi ce choix fait-il abstraction des 100,000 personnes qui seraient directement affectes? Pourquoi ce choix favorise-t-il la circulation (1800 camions/jour-3000 voitures/jour) au détriment des gens? Il défavorise aussi fortement les patients de l’hôpital Montfort.La pollution est reelle. Présentement nous avons une piste cyclable a l’emplacement choisi. Il est impensable qu’en 2008 qu’une solution telle que l’ile Kettle et un parcours de 4 voies soient retenus. Des murs anti-bruit ont été construits a la bretelle de la 50 via Maloney et les gens habitant le secteur affirment qu’ils perçoivent ENCORE intensément le bruit et les vibrations. Ce mur est donc un ÉCHEC total.
NON AU PONT ILE KETTLE
La solution a PRIVILÉGIÉR serait le corridor Lower Duck .
October 7th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Politicians in Ottawa have been on a fast track to destroy more of Ottawa (and Canada) than ever before, though it has always been a hobby of municipal, provincial and federal governments, supported by the NCC.
When they want to do something, it’s HURRY HURRY feedback NOW… when they have to do something, it’s WAIT WAIT we can’t do it right now……… There have been tons of studies about bridge locations, transit and more, and the only thing that ever happens is that the consultants get paid, the study goes on a shelf and taxes go up to pay for it.
We need to sit down and do a study, using input from people only, to see what people who actually travel between provinces, East to West and North to South to see what they would like. Maybe we don’t need a bridge, but we need to adapt an existing bridge to a rail bridge, or double decker one of the existing bridges……… we need to think creatively to make something that will still be useful in 10 years, not just an eyesore or something that is overloaded in a year……..
Before we destroy neighbourhoods, parkland or anything, we need some sober second thought.
Emailing a government that (fingers crossed) will not be returning is a waste of time, and even if they were back, they do what they bloody well want to anyway.
I left Ottawa because of the idiocy that goes on. Politicians have destroyed my beautiful city and I mourn her loss.
The NCC is no longer the National Capital Commission, but the Nuking Communities Capriciously. Time to make them answer to their cavalier actions.
February 12th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
le choix privilégié du corridor 5 est aberrant.
La pollution, le bruit et la vibration seraient INACCEPTABLES. Nous nous opposons fermement a ce choix.
NON AU PONT ILE KETTLE
La solution a PRIVILÉGIÉR serait le corridor Lower Duck .