Temporary Traffic Calming

Traffic safety is one of my top priorities for our community. Working together to find innovative ways to slow down our streets and calm our neighbourhoods is one of the many projects that my team and I work hard on to ensure that roads in Gloucester-Southgate Ward remain safe. 

The City of Ottawa has developed two programs that focus on implementing measures on our roadways to help improve community safety – Neighbourhood Traffic Calming (NTC) and Temporary Traffic Calming. The Neighbourhood Traffic Calming program involves the installation of permanent traffic calming measures including, roadway narrowing, speed humps, and PXOs. Examples of recent or ongoing streets that have been calmed through the NTC program in Gloucester-Southgate Ward include: 

  • Kingsdale Ave 
  • Queensdale Ave 
  • Rosebella Ave 
  • Lorry Greenberg Dr (Pike St – Conroy Rd) -coming soon
  • Pike St -coming soon

     

  • Johnston Rd (Ewing Dr – Blohm Dr) – coming soon

The NTC program is a more comprehensive study, and there is a long list of streets across the city competing for funding under this stream.  

While permanent measures are desirable, they also come at a considerable cost. To ensure that more streets in our city benefit from traffic calming, the city created the Temporary Traffic Calming Measures Program. 

What is the Temporary Traffic Calming Measures Program (TTCM)? 

The Temporary Traffic Calming Measures (TTCM) Program facilitates the installation of effective, low-cost traffic calming measures that are temporary and/or seasonal in nature. These measures can be easily installed once the plan is created and approved. TTCM offers safety solutions for areas that often do not meet criteria for permanent roadway modifications. 

Each Ward Councillor is allocated an annual budget for TTCM. The type of measure along with the implementation location is selected by the Ward Councillor following consultation with Ward residents and technical TTCM Program staff. 

We have many streets that have been calmed through the TTCM program and new streets are added each year. This webpage provides a list of the most recent (2024) streets that have received TTCM modifications. We will continue to update this page annually to showcase and seek

Measures Installed in 2024 (in alphabetical order):

1. Ashpark Cres – there will be paving markings installed noting that this area is 30 km/h

2. Blohm Dr (from Malak St to Karsh Dr) – flex stakes with delineators

3. Bloomington – speed pavement markings will be installed

4. Cahill Drive (from Bank St to Albion Rd South) – flex stakes with delineators will be installed

5. Conroy Rd (at Hunt Club) – cyclo-delineators

6. Downpatrick Dr (from Wyman to Downpatrick) – flex stakes and delineators will be installed

7. Forestglade Cres (from Blohm Dr to Nobleton) – flex stakes with delineators

8. Goth (Albion Rd to Dead end) – bulb outs with delineators

9. Huntersfield Dr (Newport Dr to Pike St) – speed pavement markings will be installed

10. Johnston Rd (Ewing and Blohm Dr) – adding delineators

12. Stedman St

Stedman (from Meandering Brook Dr to Parkin Cir) – bulb outs with delineators will be installed

Stedman (from Meandering Brook to Parkin Cir) – road narrowing delineators

13. Tapiola Cres

Tapiola Cres (Johnston Rd to Johnston Rd) – Flex stake with delineators

*please note that Tapiola is getting permanent changes as part of a different program*

13. Wisteria Cres

Wisteria Park (from Paul Anka to Paul Anka) –  the speed will be reduced to 40km/h. There will be pavement markings installed noting that this area is 40 km/h.

Speed Board Locations (Current): 

  1.  Albion Rd – from Massicotte Lane to Brampton St
  2. Albion Rd – from Brenda Cres to Cahill Dr
  3. Allanford Ave – from Johnston Rd to Arista Crt
  4. Apple Hill Dr – from Hank Rivers Dr to Brigham Way
  5. Blohm Dr – from Johnston Rd to Sai Cres
  6. Cahill Dr – from Marlin Pvt to Marlin Pvt
  7. Conroy Rd – from Johnston Rd to Lorry Greenberg Dr
  8. Conroy Rd – from Park Lane to Lynch St
  9. D’Aoust St – from Quail Run to Timbermill St
  10. Heatherignton Rd – from Albion Rd S to Bannerhill Pvt
  11. Hunt Club Rd – from Esson St to Blohm Dr
  12. Johnston Rd – from Duntroon Cir to Allanford Ave
  13. Johnston Rd – from Ewing St to Baslaw Dr
  14. Lorry Greenberg Dr – from Bramblegrove Cres to Huntersfield Dr
  15. Meandering Brook – from Deer View Ave to Hidden Meadow Ave
  16. Mory St – from Albion Rd to Autumnwood St
  17. Pebble Rd – from South Keys Pl to Cahill Dr
  18. Pike St – from Castlegreen Pvt to Huntersfield Dr
  19. River Rd – from Lowen Dr to Balmoral Dr
  20. Rosebella Ave – from Eight St to Sixth St
  21. Sable Ridge Dr – from Sable Ridge Dr to Quail Run Ave
  22. Sai Cres – from Blohm Dt to Blohm Dr
  23. Sixth St – from St. Bernard St to Bellmanor Crt
  24. Stedman St – from Wild Iris Ave to Meandering Brook Dr
  25. Tapiola Cres –  from White Clover Pvt to Rastila Cres
  26. Thurston Dr – from Conroy Rd to Thomas Spratt Pl
  27. Trappers Rd – from Alderwood St to Farriers Lane
  28. Uplands Dr – from Downpatrick Rd to Gibford Dr
  29. Zaidan Dr – from Inverkip Ave to Margrave Ave

Speed Board Locations (Coming Soon):

  1. Conroy Rd – from Lorry Greenberg Dr to Hunt Club Rd
  2. Forestglade Cres – from Blohm Dr to Nobleton Ave (2nd entrance)
  3. Hunt Club Rd – from Dunston Terr to Cahill Dr (replacement)
  4. Johnston Rd – from Ewing St to Blohm Dr
  5. Lester Rd –  from Meandering Brook Dr to Dearborn Priv
  6. Melva Ave –  from Kemp Dr to Elma St
  7. Tapiola Cres – from Johnston Rd to Johnston Rd
  8. Wisteria Cres – from Vintage Lane to Mosswood Crt