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Giant Video Sign / Bronson Traffic

While I’m on the topic of busybodying… here’s two short notes recently written to city staff.

Dear Mssrs. Brousseau and Doucet,

It has recently come to my attention that a proposal has been made to erect a giant video screen on Bank St. at Lansdowne Park. This short note is to register my vehement opposition to such a project.

As a Glebe resident for over 7 years I know that this project is utterly incompatible with the character of the neighbourhood. Earlier this year the Bank Street reconstruction project noted that the Glebe is an important heritage district. This sign would be completely at odds with everything about the Glebe.

Glebe residents neither need nor want a giant animated display on Bank Street, and the current pixel sign at Lansdowne is more than adequate to announce events at the facilty.

This issue has come up with no advance notice, no public consultation and barely any circulation of information to neighbours. For a 22 foot by 14 foot monstrosity stretching 45 feet into the sky this is plain wrong.

I hope the city will quash this proposal rapidly. This sign would be an eyesore.

———

Greetings,

This short email is to express my support for the Bronson morning peak right-turn prohibitions put forward by the Glebe Community Association and the Ottawa South Community Association.

I realize that northbound traffic needs to access downtown, but there is no reason that huge quantities of commuter traffic need to cut through the Glebe.

The route from Bronson to Queen Elizabeth is not appropriate for heavy traffic and the people on those streets are suffering unfairly. If traffic must travel between Bronson northbound and Queen Elizabeth then an appropriate alternative should be found so that no one need live on a busy off ramp. In the meantime we should immediately implement the proposed turning restrictions.

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