Drivers slowly make their way north on Bank Street in downtown Ottawa during the afternoon commute on May 15, 2019.
Traffic congestion along Bank Street led to frequent complaints from transit users, some of whom say it's faster to walk than to take the bus. The City of Ottawa asked residents to pinpoint transportation problems that need fixing, and they didn't hold back their frustration.
Of Ottawa's three major suburbs, Orléans gets disproportionate attention with roughly 1,000 pins. Barrhaven has about 600, while Kanata-Stittsville is far behind with just 250. "I can hear the honking or the screeching of an immediate stop, or even the bangs when an accident happens," she said. "I can hear it from my house."This narrow bridge spans the Jock River, with tight corners on both sides. Comments called it entirely inadequate for the steadily mounting traffic from the growing Half Moon Bay neighbourhood to the south, and marked it with 50 pins.
"It's critical. there have been accidents after accidents on that bridge," he said. "There are large vehicles that are simply unable to cross that bridge because of the tightness of those hairpin corners."Bank Street was one of the main targets of residents' ire, with more than 70 complaints about buses inching so slowly along the congested artery that it's sometimes faster to walk than it is to ride.
Several comments focused on the section along the Glebe where left-turning traffic blocks lanes for long stretches.
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