Stop The Kettle Island Bridge

Duration: 4 minutes and 59 seconds

Country: Canada

Language: English

License: CC - Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives

Genre: Public Service Announcement

Producer: Peder Jakobsen

Director: Peder Jakobsen

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Posted by: peder on Oct 2, 2008

What happens when a bunch of bureaucrats decide to build a bridge and and 4 lane truck highway through 12 neighbourhoods in downtown Ottawa? The citizens fight back!

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What happens when NCC consultants
decide to build a new bridge at Kettle Island
and a 4 lane truck highway
through 12+ residential neighbourhoods
impacting more than 100,000 people
in downtown Ottawa and Gatineau?
More than 1000 angry citizens show up..
..they are demanding answers.
We're not saying no bridge.
We're just saying put it where it makes sense.
Again, I ask directly the responsible federal and provincial authorities
How is it possible in 2008
For a study to consider that globally the natural environment, fish, fish habitat etc. at 17%
is almost twice as important as the habitat for people.
Homes, communities, institutions....that's at 9% !
Our coalition members are outraged.
We demand that the recommendation for Kettle Island be rejected
We demand that the decision for a bridge location get the trucks off King Edward Avenue
We demand that any future bridge be directed into a regional ring road system.
And we demand that established neighbourhoods be protected from intrusion by highways and bridges.
The process that was used in this study is the most comprehensive process...
Other cities place top priority on people, communities, and the environment
but apparently not Ottawa-Gatineau
I've been sitting here like everybody else listening and I'm not hearing a lot of talk
about the concerns about people and their homes and their community
I'm hearing a lot of talk about trucks and getting those trucks and moving those trucks
this is ridiculous!
This study is the most comprehensive
most defendable process to make decisions for public infrastructure.
No one that lives in the area was used to do the evaluation
If you say that this process was open, transparent, and unbiased
will you make the transcripts from the discussions
that took place in the technical committee available to the public?
Yes or No?
Do we have transcript of what happened within those four walls?
The answer is no.
When we looked at the terms of reference for this study
it was clear that the removal of trucks from the downtown core
was one of the major reasons for undertaking the study.
But when we saw the results of the study
and we saw the number of trucks removed from King Edward and the core was 30%
we were somewhat aghast and pretty surprised and rather angry by it
...and..I've been a teacher for 40 years
and I'll tell you, anyone who gets 30% on a test has to redo it
The process that was used in this study is the most comprehensive process...
So this is quite an odd situation because
you've made a recommendation, you've chosen a corridor
before you do the major environmental and human community assessment.
How do you account for that?
The process that was used in this study is the most comprehensive process...
I am co-founder and editor of
StopTheBridge.org
Thank you for your support.
Thanks to all the people who showed up from all parts of Ottawa.
WE WILL WIN THIS FIGHT
www.stopthebridge.org
Produced by StopTheBridge.org for the present and future citizens of Ottawa

Stop The Kettle Island Bridge

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