Dalhousie Community Association

 Submitted by Eric Darwin on behalf of the Dalhousie Community Association. This commentary is in response to the public open house held Feb.26, 2009 and the briefing by Dennis Gratton to centretown associations on March 10, 2009. Comments are roughly ordered as in the comment sheet provided by the DOTT team. Tunney’s Pasture Station: Our preference is for a Parallel station design, ie north of the transitway. The volume of buses will be huge, and in place for an undetermined number of years or decades. In Ottawa, and for transit plans, ‘temporary’ can often turn into ‘forever’. It is important to get the buses off the street and into a contained area away from cycle and pedestrian traffic. Noise barriers and landscaping is also possible if the bus lay-by areas are off Scott Street. This will be a major transfer station; we do not see any other major stations such as Baseline, Hurdman, or Lincoln Fields built on the shoulder of a busy road with adjacent residential land uses....

Implementing the LRT – Impacts on Dalhousie Eric Darwin – 4 Feb 2009 - adapted from the BUZZ article The public attention has been focused on recent service disruptions to Ottawa transit service. Meanwhile, planning continues on the light rail transit (LRT) Downtown Ottawa Transit Tunnel (DOTT) study. The study team has identified a number of route options, station designs, and operational choices. These will be presented to the public at an open house to be held probably in the next month. The original meeting scheduled for January 29th was postponed due to the transit strike. Late in 2008 city council authorized the DOTT planning group to expand the scope of the study further west from Bayview Station to Tunney’s Pasture and Holland Avenue. As a result of extending the first phase LRT to Tunney’s, it is highly likely that most bus users travelling between the downtown and west end will change between buses and the LRT at a transfer station to be built at Tunney’s Pasture. Th...

[For current information, please visit the About Us page] --- The Dalhousie Community Association - DCA - represents residents in the area bounded by Bay Street to the east; Bayview Station / OTrain line to the west; the Ottawa River to the north; and Carling Avenue to the south. This area was Dalhousie Ward before it was joined to Centretown Ward a few years ago, which combined  become the new Somerset Ward. The association is made up of volunteers. Meetings are once a month, on the first Wednesday, at the Dalhousie Community Centre - DCC - at the corner of Empress/Somerset. Free Parking, Number 2 bus route. We meet on the ground floor, last door to the right, at 7.30pm til 9pm. You are welcome to come  ! The President is Eric Darwin, EricDarwin1@gmail.com . The DCA was founded 25 years ago (1984) and two founding members are still active in the association: Archie Campbell, who for many years was President, has been active in the association for al...