City of Ottawa’s upcoming transit commission meeting cancelled

By Dani-Elle Dubé

The City of Ottawa has cancelled its upcoming transit commission meeting at city hall.

The meeting was scheduled for Wednesday and would have been the first since February 19.

Wednesday’s meeting was scheduled to include a verbal update on the Confederation Line and bus service, as well as updates on detours for the rest of the year.

According to the meeting's agenda uploaded to the City’s website, those detours include Rideau Street starting in the spring. The update says the street will be closed to traffic for the reconstruction of the Rideau right-of-way from Dalhousie Street to Sussex Drive.

Because of the construction, buses will be forced to detour from Rideau with the majority of routes serving the Mackenzie King Bridge. Exceptions will be with routes 6 and 7, which will travel down Dalhousie, Besserer, Nicholas, Daly, Colonel By, Rideau and Wellington Streets as service temporarily stops along Daly and in the vicinity of Confederation Square.

Overnight bus service will be provided to the Mackenzie King Bridge along with temporary stops on Rideau Street, just east of Dalhousie Street.

The exact date of when construction will start is not yet known.

However, starting on May 3, R2 bus replacement services will be implemented as the O-Train’s Line 2 will shut down for construction of LRT’s Stage 2 Trillium Line expansion.

R2 will serve all five Line 2 stations, including South Keys, Walkley and Heron stations and Preston/Gladstone.

More detailed information on these transit service detours would have been presented at Wednesday’s meeting, the document says.

The next transit commission meeting isn't scheduled until April 15.

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