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Gary Boyd is applauding the National Capital Commission’s decision to deny the city’s request for an LRT extension across federal land. “That’s what we were hoping for,” said the Fraser Ave. resident. “We really don’t want it to go by here at all and have the disruption.” NCC officials held a surprise press conference downtown […]
MoreThe city reached a tentative agreement with its largest union Thursday morning — avoiding layoffs, for now. Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 503 represents 6,300 inside and outside employees, or 37% of the city’s workforce. “In keeping with the usual labour relations practices, the details of the tentative agreement are confidential until ratified by […]
MoreThe city should proceed with redeveloping Lansdowne Park, despite pending legal proceedings, according to a report by city staff to be heard next week. The report recommends beginning construction works for soil remediation and the relocation of the Horticulture Building. “The public wants us to move forward with revitalizing Lansdowne because it has been ignored […]
MoreA long-time OC Transpo rider says she’s appalled at the “communication breakdown” between transit staff following a bus accident downtown in which her daughter was hurt. “Customer service is so bad,” said Shelley Pollock. On Feb. 27, Pollock’s daughter, Zoe Crego, was riding Route 96 heading downtown from Kanata. Just before 1 p.m., the 96 […]
MoreOC Transpo has known about illegitimate clothing donation boxes on city property for at least six months but hasn’t acted quickly to remove them, according to the head of a struggling not-for-profit group. “They didn’t bother to check it out,” said Ottawa Neighbourhood Services president Patricia Lemieux, adding her staff have repeatedly been told the […]
MoreThe membership of one of the city’s transit unions has endorsed a new four-year deal with the city Tuesday night. Members of CUPE Local 5500 — representing OC Transpo’s transit supervisors, fleet garage supervisors and special constables — voted overwhelmingly in favour of the offer. The local represents 164 workers. “We had a 77% turnout […]
MoreThe bitter scheduling battle between the city and its bus drivers, mechanics and dispatchers has been squashed by an arbitrator, and negotiations for a new contract could begin as soon as August. The final arbitration award from Brian Keller was released late Friday, and favours the city’s position on implementing a scheduling system at OC […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/06/25/woeful-response-to-couples-wet-yard An elderly Barrhaven couple say they’re blowing their savings to fix the damage from flooding in their backyard because neither the city nor the builder will step up and address the drainage problem. “We’ve spent about $4,000 on this lawn and we just can’t afford it anymore,” said Alice Publicover. “We’re seniors […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/04/04/17874436.html#/news/ottawa/2011/04/04/pf-17871576.html Every time he leaves work, Stephen Wardlaw obsesses over turning right or left onto Industrial Ave. near St. Laurent Blvd. “It’s terrible. The traffic is coming in the other way, you come out, you put your signal on, there’s nobody there,” said Wardlaw. “By the time you go to pull in, there’s […]
MoreChristine Drew is still seeing red over potholes. Her car got banged up on the Airport Parkway during a long weekend back in 2008. “It damaged the car right away,” she said. The shocks on her 2000 Dodge Neon were cracked, busted and broken. “We were on our way out of town and we had […]
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