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Manotick has long been part of Ottawa’s truck route network, largely due to the fact that Ottawa has few bridges crossing its rivers and many of the North-South roads in this part of the City are not equipped to manage truck traffic. However, Manotick is very quickly developing, as is the South end of the City generally.
This has meant that the number of heavy trucks navigating through Manotick has exploded in recent years. Today, hundreds of very large, heavy trucks transit through the village daily.
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As residents know, Manotick is very poorly suited for this heavy truck traffic; the combination of tight turns, often narrow streets, and the character of the village mean that truck traffic is often causing significant health and safety risks to residents, disruptions to businesses, delays and congestion for commuters, and more issues.
To be blunt, the status quo is unacceptable.
In my office, we are com-
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David Brown, Councillor , Ward 21
mitted to doing everything we can to remove trucks from Manotick; this is priority number one for the Ward 21 Team. I am pleased to provide an update on my office’s progress toward providing relief to residents.
At the urging of our office, City staff have agreed to a temporary truck connection from First Line to the Mahogany development along Century Road; Minto has informed its operators to have vehicles redirected. The net effect is that fewer trucks will be transiting in the village and near the developed portion of the Mahogany. They will instead use First Line and the portion of Century where there are fewer residences.
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