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Battle lines drawn for toll road standoff
low the municipality to designate the 174 as a toll road as allowed under a subsection of the Ontario Municipal Act. During the counties council session UCPR Warden René Berthiaume had urged his fel- low mayors to be calm and wait to see if Ot- tawa city council took any official position on the matter. During a phone interview the following day, he said it is now a situa- tion for counties administration to look into but he indicated that the UCPR will oppose any toll road plans for the highway connec- tion between Prescott-Russell and Ottawa because of the potential expense both for all residents in the two counties who work in Ottawa-Orléans and also those who go there for shopping and some recreation ac- tivities. Berthiaume also hinted that Ottawa could be setting itself up for retaliation from sur- rounding municipalities. “If this (toll road idea) is the case, it’s go- ing to be a recommendation from us that Ottawa become an island to itself with pay tolls all around,” he said. One benefit that Berthiaume and other UCPR mayors observed about the whole toll road proposal that Ottawa is sending to the province. It may prompt the provincial government to provide more funding sup- port for improving transportation corridors on the east side of the city. They noted that the provincial highways west and south of Ottawa have seen millions spent on up- grading while the eastern routes have been neglected. Nomination à l’Hôpital Général de Hawkesbury M. Sébastien Racine, président du conseil d’administration, annonce la nomination de docteure Julie Maranda à titre de médecin-chef à l’Hôpital Général de Hawkesbury .
a full committee to deal with an idea that a single member of Ottawa city council has proposed. What St-Amour and other UCPR mayors didn’t know at the time was that Ottawa city council decided during its own June 12 ses-
sion to send a letter to Queens Park remind- ing the province that the city wants High- way 174 taken back as a provincial highway. If the province is unwilling to reclaim the highway as a provincial responsibility, then the City of Ottawa wants Queens Park to al-
GREGGCHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
At first it was just an idea tossed out for thought and comment by one of Ottawa’s rural ward councillors. Now the thought of making Highway 174 into a toll road has gained support at city hall, at least as a lobbying tactic against the provincial gov- ernment. It is also starting to shape up as a poten- tial explosive issue for local politicians on both sides of the highway divide between Ottawa-Orléans and Prescott-Russell. “I hope they’re not serious about it,” said Mayor Jean-Paul St-Pierre of Russell Town- ship during a June 12 discussion at the United Counties of Prescott-Russell (UCPR) committee of the whole session. Clarence-Rockland Mayor Marcel Guibord brought the issue to counties council at- tention following previous regional media reports about Cumberland Ward Coun. Ste- phen Blais promoting the idea of declaring Highway 174 as a toll road to help the city deal with the maintenance expense. High- way 174 used to be a provincial highway until the Harris Progressive Conservative downloaded it onto Ottawa, claiming the majority of traffic on it was local. Guibord urged his fellow mayors to sup- port creating a special committee to deal with Blais on the issue. The Nation Mayor François St-Amour questioned the need for
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