Kate Porter

#OttCity council votes 15 to 10 to move forward with Lansdowne 2.0. Agreements to be signed and contractors likely on the site in a couple of weeks. youtube.com/watch?v=C94IU-… #ottnews

(My colleagues Arthur White-Crummey and Cameron Mahler have been closely covering today's special council meeting, so watch for their coverage. I was at Carleton today, teaching journalism students in my second-year civics course.)

#OttCity council votes 15 to 10 to move forward with Lansdowne 2.0. Agreements to be signed and contractors likely on the site in a couple of weeks. youtube.com/watch?v=C94IU-… #ottnews

It's the big Lansdowne 2.0 mtg at #OttCity hall. Mayor Sutcliffe didn't go through the agenda as usual. We didn't get a PowerPoint on the first item re. $11M in losses at Lansdowne, as usual. He just jumped right into Lansdowne 2.0. #OttNews cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…

Clearly, this platform has fewer users than before, but I wanted to share parts of the docs for Lansdowne 2.0. Taxpayers and residents always deserve transparency, facts, and a detailed, realistic discussion of risk when #OttCity contemplates big publicly owned projects. #ottnews

#OttCity staff do acknowledge the risk that the OSEG waterfall at Lansdowne 2.0 doesn't produce those revenues decades from now.

I haven't felt the need to post many votes for the record this term of #OttCity council. Council just refused to even CONSIDER a motion to delay voting on Lansdowne 2.0 on Nov. 7. Ie. $483.9M in budget authority, extending the OSEG deal through to 2075. #OttNews #cdnmuni

O-Train lines 2 and 4 to open five days a week on Jan. 6. To open in phases, and will bump up six-day service and seven-day service after that: cbc.ca/news/canada/ot… #OttCity #OttNews

Colleagues Elyse Skura and Arthur White-Crummey will have coverage today on web, radio, video. If you'd like to check out archival footage of the project's history, I went through old tapes dating back 25 years. Video (and 2006-era map) here: cbc.ca/news/canada/ot… #ottcity

#OttCity's technical briefing on north-south O-Train starting now (at 10:30 a.m.) Opening date expected: youtube.com/live/HE5zNDKMy… #OttNews

First details of draft budget from @arthurwhiteCBC at #OttCity hall: - transit fares to go up 5% - transit levy going up 8% = an extra 1% on the tax bill - "placeholder" hope of $36M from federal & Ont ario goverments - no service cuts (Final vote in Dec) cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…

This is big. #OttCity, your many years of (relatively) calm budget debates appear to be over. Mayor Sutcliffe maintains Ottawa needs $ from #onpoli or #cdnpoli, otherwise brace for a combo of 100s of dollars extra in transit levy, costly transit, cuts. #ottnews

This post got such traction back in March, I feel I should close the loop! #OttCity announced last week at the joint transit/LRT meeting that the pedestrian/cycling bridge over the Rideau River at Carleton would open (for real) on Saturday, June 15: students.carleton.ca/2024/06/rideau….

(I did read this local news story, looking for extra info before I tweeted, but three weeks had passed and I thought I was just a lucky early user! ottawa.ctvnews.ca/lrt-constructi…)

Well that’s exciting. Not sure when they moved the fencing, but I just took my first walk over the #OttCity Stage 2 Rideau River pedestrian bridge from Carleton’s @JSchool_CU to Vincent Massey Park. I do love rivers.