On June 1, 2007, the Task Force submitted Moving Ottawa:
The Mayor of Ottawa’s Task Force on Transportation
to the Mayor.
Report highlights
Deliver a comprehensive, innovative, incremental,
affordable and environmentally sustainable region-wide rapid
transit system. Leverage the strengths of the Transitway and
O-Train, which would both eventually be converted to electric
light rail. By 2017, and in some cases well before, service
would extend to Stittsville, Carp, Kanata, Barrhaven, Smiths
Falls, South Ottawa, Orléans, Cumberland, Alexandria,
Gatineau and the Ottawa International Airport.
- Re-establish an arm’s length transit authority
accountable to City Council to manage transit operations
and build the new system.
- Bore an east-west tunnel under the downtown core
where diesel-electric trains would switch to electric mode
underground.
- Reopen Union Station as the major downtown
transportation hub.
- Build a new bridge across the Ottawa River
to the east of the downtown core to alleviate truck traffic
congestion.
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