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Feb 13, 2024 · The permanent closure of Wellington Street to vehicles would push downtown traffic elsewhere, resulting in "notable impacts" for commuters and an "overall increase in driver stress" for...
Feb 26, 2022 · Mayor Jim Watson calls it “the most important street in the country,” but many believe it will never reopen to traffic given the risk of a repeat occupation — or something worse. Story ...
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Barry Padolsky, an Ottawa architect specializing in heritage buildings, says more pedestrian space sounds great, but functionality needs to hold a seat at the table. "People need a reason to go there," he said "[Or] it's just going to make more of a dead zone." While added security remains top of mind for many after the truck protest, too much secu...
Gordon says you can't recreate the wide boulevards of Washington, D.C., in Ottawa because the cities aren't similar in their design and elevation. Architect Frederick Todd included this warning in the 1903 city planning report submitted to the Ottawa Improvement Commission, a body that Laurier created at the tail end of the 1890s. The preliminary r...
Ottawa does have that diagonal view from further down Wellington Street at the National War Memorial. The land for it was expropriated by the federal government after the Russell Hotel burned down in 1928, according to Paul Henry, the City of Ottawa archivist. While the city and the federal government have worked together to manage land since Ottaw...
Feb 26, 2022 · While Wellington Street is again quiet and clear after three weeks of heavy-duty mayhem, it appears the city’s oldest, most storied street will never be the same. The street remains closed to traffic as politicians, security officials and city planners discuss the fate of its five lanes.
Jun 13, 2022 · The occupation left more than three months ago and Wellington Street still looks like a series of governments and agencies remain paralyzed, unable to act. Let’s transform this into a people ...
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Jan 19, 2023 · A year into Wellington Street’s closure to traffic, brought on by a log-jam of Freedom Convoy protest vehicles and maintained amidst deliberations about its future, Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe...
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Jan 26, 2023 · Ottawa's transportation committee has greenlit a plan to eventually reopen several blocks of Wellington Street in front of Parliament Hill that have been closed to motorized vehicles ever since...
