🏗️ Ward 6 Projects

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.

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

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.

The Challenge

Stittsville and West End Corridor 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

How the Community Connector and Rapid Connector Would Actually Work

These are not meant to be full size buses. Picture them more like a shared cab or carpool vehicle, picking up several passengers at once from regular bus stops and designated hub locations across the neighbourhood. Each vehicle would carry a clearly visible City Transit Service decal so residents immediately recognize it as an authorized, official part of the transit network, not a private ride share.

Fares would work the same way OC Transpo fares already work today. A rider taps their PRESTO card once when boarding, and is charged the same standard fare as a regular bus trip, for example around four dollars and fifteen cents for the Community Connector. The City would cover the remaining cost of that trip, the same way a portion of every existing bus ride is already subsidized by the City today.

The Rapid Connector would use this same tap once approach for trips to downtown Ottawa, university campuses such as Carleton and Algonquin for students, and other high priority locations where large numbers of residents work or commute in bulk. Because these trips tend to be longer, the fare could be set a little higher, for example around five dollars, with the City again covering the balance of the actual cost.

The value case is simple. When a Connector vehicle is carrying four or five passengers on a single trip, the City's cost per rider drops sharply, and the total subsidy needed is often far less than what it costs to run a full size bus covering that same route, especially outside the busiest hours. Residents get faster, more convenient service, and public transit dollars stretch further.

Fare amounts referenced here are illustrative planning examples based on approximate current OC Transpo pricing. Actual fares, subsidy levels, vehicle types and deployment would need to be confirmed through City transit planning, procurement rules, accessibility requirements and Council approval.

Smart Ideas to Strengthen This Model

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

What Success Looks Like

Imagine a Stittsville and West End Corridor 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.

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.

1. Concerns Get Collected

   Every concern raised, whether at a town hall, by email, at the door or on the website, is logged.

2. Residents Get Notified

   Residents are told which concerns we are actively working on and what the action plan looks like.

3. If a Concern Is Not Valid

   We explain why at the next month’s town hall, so nothing simply disappears without a response.

4. 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.

1. 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.

2. Select the Incident Category

   Pick the category that fits: suspicious activity, theft or break in, property damage, vandalism, unsafe conditions, or other.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

Why This Matters

Stittsville is growing fast, and growth brings new pressure on public safety. Residents consistently tell us they want to see more police presence in their neighbourhoods, faster response times and a real partnership between the community and Ottawa Police Service, not just statistics on a report.

What We Are Pushing For

Why This Matters

Mani has personally worked in retirement homes and senior care facilities, and his wife has spent over twenty years in senior care, including right here in Stittsville. Seniors built this community, and they deserve a councillor who understands their daily needs from lived experience, not from a policy binder.

What We Are Adding for Seniors

Full Transparency on Spending

The City should account for every dollar it collects and every dollar it spends, in plain language residents can actually read. We will push for a clear public breakdown of collections and expenses, with justification attached, so taxpayers can see exactly where their money goes and why.

The LRT Problem

Our transit system has struggled for years, yet the City keeps directing funding toward the LRT project despite repeated breakdowns, delays and reliability issues. Money should not keep flowing to a project that has not delivered for riders while core services in wards like ours are stretched thin. Funding decisions need to be tied to actual results, not sunk cost.

Taxes Up, Services Down

Over the past several years, property taxes have gone up, in part to help close City budget shortfalls, while services residents rely on have been reduced, including tighter garbage collection limits and cuts elsewhere. Ward 6 residents are paying more and getting less, and that trend needs to be reversed.