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Open houses on highway upgrade studies
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
of Rockland.The current proposal is for the county road and the main part of Highway 174, which runs through Cumberland, up- graded to four-lane status. The section of Highway 174 from the Trim Road intersec- tion to the Innes Road “split” is already a four-lane setup. That would become a six- lane divided highway under the proposed expansion plan. The City of Ottawa’s own Master Trans- portation Plan gives higher priority to its LRT expansion project. The Highway 174 upgrade is not expected to be on the city’s capital works projects priority list for another decade or more. The UCPR has the lead on the Highway 174/County Road 17 EA and a second report from the consultants on possible alterna- tives to four-laning of the existing route is anticipated.The report should also provide more details on the pros and cons of upgrad- ing the existing route versus the suggested alternate routes. For now, both the UCPR and the City of Ottawa want to give residents in both areas a chance to see and comment on the plans for both projects. Open houses are scheduled for February 3 at the R.J. Kennedy Memorial Community Centre on Dunning Road in Cumberland, February 4 at the Bob MacQuarrie Recreation Complex on Youville Drive in Orléans, and February 5 at the Guy Faubert Hall at 954 Giroux Street in Rock- land. All open houses are from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., with formal presentations at 7 p.m.
Residents in both Clarence-Rockland and the City of Ottawa’s CumberlandWard get a chance to see just how plans for impro- ving the commute between Rockland and Orléans might affect them. The United Counties of Prescott-Russell (UCPR) and the City of Ottawa are tag-team- ing on a series of three open houses in early February that will outline plans for both the light-rail commuter train extension into Orléans that Ottawa’s transit department has in mind and the proposal for widening the Highway 174/County Road 17 connec- tion between Rockland and Orléans that the UCPR and the City of Ottawa are considering. Marc Clermont, UCPR public works direc- tor, noted that the combined open houses are the best way of addressing the two proj- ects. Both are undergoing environmental assessments (EA) but the light-rail transit (LRT) extension’s EA is getting higher prior- ity right now. “The LRT study has an important impact on our study,” said Clermont. “Both studies have to be coordinated together. In our case (highway EA), we’re much more advanced further along, with our study.” The LRT proposal calls for an extension of the existing Ottawa light-rail transit eastern line into Orléans as far as the Trim Road intersection. The question that the LRT EA has to answer concerns the final location
The Trim Road intersection in Orléans will soon have a light-rail transit station added to the giant park-and-ride lot for the benefit of commuter traffic. How this will affect plans for expansion of the highway link between Orléans and Rockland is the subject of several public meetings in early February.
for the line extension, whether it should fol- low a route down the centre of the existing Highway 174/Queensway route into Ottawa or else on either side of Orléans’ divided highway link to Ottawa.
The answer to that question will affect how any future upgrading and expansion of the Highway 174 route through Cumber- land east to the Cannan Road intersection connection with County Road 17 outside
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