🏗️ Ward 6 Projects
Four areas we are actively working on for Stittsville: infrastructure, traffic, transit and rebuilding trust with our community.
🏗️ Stittsville Infrastructure Solutions
What we are adding, and how every addition is tested against Value Engineering and our four stage process.
Why This Matters
Stittsville is growing quickly. New homes and new residents put real pressure on roads, transit, drainage, water systems, businesses, public services and community infrastructure. Every addition we make needs to be planned for the whole community, not approved one project at a time.
What Do We Mean by Value Engineering?
Before anything is added, we ask whether it delivers the right result, at the right quality, with the right design and the best long term value for taxpayers.
Lowest price is not always the best value. Smart value means quality, function, durability and long term cost.
Every Addition Goes Through Four Stages
The same four stage process behind our full Plan of Action applies to every piece of infrastructure we add.
Planning
Brainstorming with residents and subject matter volunteers before anything is drawn on paper.
Design
Reviewing traffic, transit, drainage, capacity and community impact so the design fits the bigger picture.
Construction
Delivering quality, safety and long term value, with clear communication throughout the build.
Maintenance
Protecting the investment with preventive maintenance, repairs and long term operating plans.
🚦 Stittsville Traffic Solutions
Under research right now, focused on the streets residents raise most often.
Streets Under Review
We are currently researching traffic conditions and safety on five key Stittsville corridors:
- 🛣️ Stittsville Main Street
- 🛣️ Huntmar Road
- 🛣️ Abbott Road
- 🛣️ Cope Drive
- 🛣️ Fernbank Road
What We Are Looking At
🚧 Speed Bumps
Evaluating targeted speed bumps on residential stretches where speeding is a documented concern.
📷 Monitoring Cameras
Cameras to observe speed and traffic patterns, not to issue fines. The goal is awareness, not revenue.
✉️ Automatic Notices
When a vehicle is recorded speeding, the registered owner would receive an automated email or mailed notice so they are aware and can adjust, rather than being ticketed.
📊 Busy Road Research
Broader data collection on the busiest Ward 6 roads to identify where safety improvements should be prioritized next.
This work is under research and has not been finalized. Any measures adopted would need to meet applicable City by laws, traffic engineering standards and privacy requirements.
🚌 Stittsville Transit Solutions
A faster, smarter and more connected transit system for Ward 6.
The Challenge
Stittsville residents deserve transit that gets them to work, school, healthcare, shopping and community services without spending ninety minutes to two hours travelling across Ottawa. Residents are telling us about long travel times, overcrowded buses, unreliable connections, difficult commutes downtown, limited options for students heading to Carleton University and other schools, and weak local connections between Stittsville neighbourhoods and major destinations. Adding more full size buses alone may not be the most efficient answer. We need to use transit dollars smarter.
Our Solution: A Layered Transit Model
1. Strengthen the Main Bus Network
Work with OC Transpo to add targeted capacity during peak periods on the routes with the greatest demand, prioritizing downtown commuters, students, employment centres and major connections. More capacity, fewer overcrowded buses, shorter waits, more reliable service.
2. Stittsville Community Connector
A small vehicle, hub to hub service connecting roughly ten strategic points across Stittsville and nearby Kanata, such as shopping areas, community centres, healthcare facilities, employment areas and Park and Ride locations, targeting service about every fifteen minutes during peak demand.
3. Stittsville Rapid Connector
A peak period rapid connection from selected hubs to major transit links and employment destinations, piloted mornings from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. and afternoons from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., aiming for a measurable 30 to 40 minute travel time on high demand routes.
4. Opportunities for Local Operators
Where City procurement and safety rules allow, contract qualified local transportation providers for smaller vehicles, creating local employment while adding flexible capacity.
5. One Integrated Experience
The Community Connector and Rapid Connector are designed to work with the existing OC Transpo network: one network, simple connections, no unnecessary transfer penalty.
The Financial Strategy
The question should not simply be how many buses we can add. The better question is how we move more people, faster, with every transit dollar we spend. For planning purposes, if an additional full size bus were assumed to cost approximately five thousand dollars per operating day, four additional buses would represent about six hundred thousand dollars a month, or roughly seven point three million dollars a year. These are illustrative planning figures, not an OC Transpo quotation or an approved City budget. The proposal is to evaluate whether a combination of targeted full size buses, smaller community connectors and rapid connections delivers better service and value than relying only on additional full size buses.
Start With a Pilot: Do Not Build Everything at Once
Listen & Analyze
Collect real data on ridership, travel times, wait times, overcrowding, student and employment commuting, senior transportation needs, and origin and destination patterns.
Pilot
Launch selected main route capacity improvements, Community Connector routes and Rapid Connector routes.
Measure
Publish results on travel time, wait time, on time performance, ridership, cost per passenger and customer satisfaction.
Expand
Successful routes expand, underperforming routes are adjusted, and poor performing services are redesigned. Public money should follow results.
What Success Looks Like
Imagine a Stittsville resident saying: “I know when my bus or connector is coming.” “I can reach my destination without spending two hours travelling.” “I do not have to drive because transit is finally convenient.” That is the standard we should work toward.
More Capacity
Where overcrowding is greatest.
Less Time
Shorter, more predictable journeys.
Better Connections
Between neighbourhoods and major routes.
Smarter Local Service
Smaller vehicles where they make sense.
Local Opportunities
Qualified local operators and employment.
Accessible Transit
Designed for seniors and accessibility needs.
Accountability
Results measured and reported publicly.
Stittsville does not need promises. Stittsville needs a transit plan that can be tested, measured and improved. Public investment tied to measurable results. Stittsville deserves transit that works.
🤝 Trust Issues
Earning trust back takes more than words. Here is the process we are putting in place.
Monthly Town Halls
We are holding a town hall every month so residents have a standing, predictable place to raise concerns and hear direct updates, rather than waiting for an election cycle to be heard.
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Concerns Get Collected
Every concern raised, whether at a town hall, by email, at the door or on the website, is logged.
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Residents Get Notified
Residents are told which concerns we are actively working on and what the action plan looks like.
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If a Concern Is Not Valid
We explain why at the next month’s town hall, so nothing simply disappears without a response.
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Emails Get Answered
If a concern comes in by email, we respond within forty eight hours with an appropriate answer.
🛡️ SV Shield: Community Safety Reporting
SV Shield is a community safety reporting tool for Stittsville. Residents can report a non emergency safety concern, suspicious activity, theft or break in, property damage, vandalism, or an unsafe condition, in their own words, in any language, and have it logged for follow up. It is one more way we are making it easier for residents to be heard and to see that something is actually being done.
SV Shield is for non emergency reports only. For a life threatening emergency, always call 911 first.
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Choose Your Language
Select your preferred language from the dropdown. SV Shield supports many languages spoken across Ward 6, including French, Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Somali, Tagalog, Korean, Vietnamese, Portuguese, German, Amharic and Tamil.
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Select the Incident Category
Pick the category that fits: suspicious activity, theft or break in, property damage, vandalism, unsafe conditions, or other.
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Add Your Location
Enter the location or address where the concern is happening. This field is required so the report can be followed up on accurately.
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Describe What Happened
Type your description, or tap the microphone to speak in any language. Your words are automatically translated to English, so language is never a barrier to being heard.
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Attach Photos or Video
If you have them, attach up to four photos or a short video clip to support your report. This step is optional.
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Review and Submit
Click Review Report, check that the text, including anything spoken and translated, looks correct, then confirm and submit.
SV Shield reports are non emergency. For anything urgent or dangerous, call 911. For non emergency police matters, Ottawa Police can be reached at 613 236 1222.
Our Commitment
We are working to regain the trust of our community, one concern, one update and one town hall at a time. No disappearing issues. No forgotten concerns.