The Southwest Transitway Extension (Fallowfield Road to Jockvale Road), a $52.6 million investment, is underway thanks to Infrastructure Stimulus Funding provided by the Government of Canada, the Province of Ontario and the City of Ottawa. This major project has been identified as a priority and is designed to respond to population growth and development in the city’s southwest region. The project will take place in two stages and will be complete by March 31, 2011.
“Prime Minister Harper’s Economic Action Plan is creating jobs and making it easier for people to get to work,” said Pierre Poilievre, Member of Parliament for Nepean Carleton. “I am pleased to have secured results for my community, including federal funds to help build the Strandherd Bridge, as well as reduce traffic and improve transit in Barrhaven. ”
Highlights of the project include:
- 2.2 km of bus-only lanes between Berrigan Drive and Oriska Way completing the transitway link between the existing Fallowfield Park and Ride and the existing Strandherd Park and Ride;
- Two-lane underpass bridge at the future Highbury Park Drive;
- Longfields Transit Station which includes a pedestrian underpass providing linkages to existing multi-use recreational pathways;
- Multi-use recreational pathway for full length of project;
- Stormwater collector sewer south along the transitway corridor, connecting to an existing storm trunk on Longfields Drive;
- 1 km of bus-only lanes south from Strandherd Transit Station to Jockvale Road;
- Transit corridor through the existing Chapman Mills Marketplace shopping centre;
- Six-lane underpass bridge at Strandherd Drive;
- Two-lane underpass bridge for a shopping centre access lane crossing the transitway corridor;
- Marketplace Transit Station with at grade access to the surrounding shopping centre businesses.
On June 5, 2009, the Government of Canada, the Province of Ontario and the City of Ottawa announced $375 million in stimulus funding for infrastructure projects across the City of Ottawa. For more information on projects funded by the Infrastructure Stimulus Fund, go to: ottawa.ca.
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