{"id":592984,"date":"2026-04-09T18:04:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592984\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:04:36","slug":"bank-street-bus-only-lanes-coming-to-the-glebe-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592984\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Street bus-only lanes coming to the Glebe in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ottawa city council has approved an approximately $2 million plan to launch a combination of permanent and trial-run bus-only lanes on some curbside stretches of Bank Street in the Glebe starting next summer.<\/p>\n

Starting June 1, 2027, four permanent 24-hour bus lanes will go between Fourth and Woodlawn avenues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A 12-month pilot project will also see some stretches of curbside lanes in the neighbourhood reserved for buses during peak periods on weekdays: between 7:00 a.m. and 9 a.m. going north toward downtown and between 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. going south.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There’s been talk of changing the traffic profile<\/a> of Bank Street in the Glebe for years. It’s one of Ottawa’s busiest corridors, with needs that are “complex and varied,” according to the city.<\/p>\n

Overall, the changes will eliminate 17 street parking spaces. Businesses in the area have told CBC News they\u2019re concerned that loss will cut the number of visitors and make it harder to receive shipments.<\/p>\n

\"CityThis two-panel map from the City of Ottawa illustrates the plan for the permanent and test-run bus-only lanes that will be implemented in June 2027. (City of Ottawa)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pilot has changed and it has changed in ways that are, I think, supportive of the complaints we heard from business,\u201d said Marcia Wallace, the city\u2019s general manager of planning, after councillors gave the plan the go-ahead.<\/p>\n

The plan approved by council is a pared-back version of the proposal to a city committee last month with a recommended 15-month pilot.<\/p>\n

A motion from local city councillor Shawn Menard that was unanimously approved by council Wednesday also cut the temporary bus lane hours back to match the times street parking is already restricted.<\/p>\n

Menard\u2019s motion also asks that the Glebe Community Association and business improvement area are regularly consulted. Staff will monitor sale impacts, time saved for commuters and changes to foot traffic, and report on the results of the pilot after six months.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always a challenge to balance the needs of a growing community with growing traffic pressures,\u201d Mayor Mark Sutcliffe told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this case, the priority was \u2026 get traffic through that area faster and not have the buses clogged up behind cars, and behind parked cars in particular.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mayor said the city will do everything possible to support businesses affected by the change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-592984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}