City setting up motor vehicle control zone for Canada Day weekend
Posted Jun 23, 2022 09:12:00 PM.
The City of Ottawa is organizing a motor vehicle control zone in downtown Ottawa over the Canada Day weekend in anticipation of any vehicle protests in the area.
A motor vehicle control zone will be in effect from Wednesday, June 29 at 8 a.m. until Monday, July 4 at 6 a.m and stretches from Booth Street in the west, Laurier Avenue to the south, and Sussex Drive/Colonel By Drive in the east.
- The roads are not closed. Residential and business traffic, as well as pedestrians, cyclists and public transit are permitted to enter and exit the control zone.
- Motor vehicles taking part in any form of demonstration, event, protest or rally will not be permitted.
- Barricades, heavy equipment or police officers and vehicles will be at various access points surrounding the control zone, to filter lawful traffic onto those streets.
- There is no on-street parking or stopping as indicated by posted signage on roads in the control zone.
- Parking within the control zone is only available in parking lots and garages. These may be busy, so plan your travel times appropriately.
- Motorists failing to observe temporary no-stopping signage may be ticketed and towed.
- Expect traffic delays in the control zone and on surrounding roads.
- The removal of the control zone, currently planned for Monday July 4 at 6 a.m. may be delayed should conditions warrant it. Temporary parking signage will remain in effect until removed by the City.
Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury questioned with a post on Twitter why the zone does not include the ByWard Market.
Feels like groundhog day.
How many times do @OttawaPolice and @ottawacity repeat the same issues by not including the #ByWardMKT in the red zone?
They eventually get there but never include the area as part of internal reviews