CCC common TMP position submission

[John Verbaas]

 

Hi all...pls find attached the contributions sent to the City  on behalf of the CCC   re. the TMP  review at Transportation Commitee tomorrow (Fri 15th) .    There hasn't been a lot of time since the 500+ pages of documentation were released on Oct 9th to digest the info, develop CA positions, network among CA's at the CCC level and put together a shared response.  Not only that but during these same 5 weeks almost as if no one was watching, the 2014 budget slipped through Transportation Committee as well!

 

The 5 points addressed in our submission were identified at our last CCC mtg as those points which are most commonly shared among the CA's that participated in the discussion and which we would like to emphasize.

 

Also  please note the 3rd attachment...in case you haven't seen it...which is the list of changes /responses to the Oct 9th TMP draft which  the City plans  to incorporate (based on  community  feedback thus far) .    For example among other things it includes their response to the calls for rail service to the airport. 

 

Now that the 2014 budget has largely gone by, the TMP is mostly out of the way, and many  of the road projects that we have been opposed to over the past years  (AVTC, PoW Drive widening) have been deferred by as much as 15yrs (that is a bit of a victory!)   and the City is getting serious about transit we need to reflect on what we would like the CCC to focus on/accomplish over the next few years. Ideas would be welcomed. 

 

One idea I would like to discuss further at the CCC  is to see if we can find agreement on a way to begin to carry forward  the topic  of sharing the operational and expansion costs of the transportation network.   This  is a long term  topic but I think the CCC is in a position to try to raise the profile of this issue.   It is also relevant to the next phase of development of the Official Plan which is the review of Development Charges (Target completion date is summer 2014).   It would seem more fair to me that  those who travel the most and via the most expensive modes ought to pay more than those who do not.    Right now we all pay equally via our property taxes to run the road system whether we have 1 car and drive 10,000km per year or 2 cars and drive 40,000  (or have no car at all!)... and we pay the same for a transit trip whether we will ride 3 stations on the new LRT or whether we travel the whole line to Kanata with a transfer to a further 10km bus ride.  I think this is one topic we need to start talking about.

 

John

[Michael Richardson]

John, thank you for doing all this work.
I will read the submission.

Can I share this document publically?

[John Verbaas]

Yes...feel free to share this document with others...John

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