The Alta Vista Corridor Environmental Assessment (EA)proposed a roadway to connect the Queensway at the Nicholas interchange. That EA is currently the subject of a bump-up request to the Ministry of the Environment. The Alta Vista Corridor roadway would require considerable additional capacity at the Queensway and Nicholas and hence might result in pressure for more widening!

All the links below are sorted by category (sustainable transportation, health & air quality and similar or related organizations) and listed from local, to provincial, to national, to international in scope.

Sustainable Transportation (smart growth, better transit & energy efficiency)

• Ottawa 2020: The City of Ottawa new Official Plan site.
• Citizens for Safe Cycling of Ottawa
• Transit Summit Report on February 2002 Ottawa Community Transit Summit
• Transit Supportive Planning: 1992 Ministry Municipal Affairs and Housing document.
  
• Commuter Challenge week (annually in early June).
• Centre for Sustainable Transportation
• Transport 2000: advocacy group.
• Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (BEST)
• Victoria Transport Policy Institute: an independent research organization on practical solutions to transportation problems.
• Better Transit: Edmonton based site advocating transit.
• Government of Canada Sustainable Transportation Info.
• Car Free Day site: Sierra Club Canada site for organizing car free days.
• Light Rail Central: North American based group.
• Induced Traffic basic references from a private site.
• E-magazine article about gridlock.
• US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
• Light Rail Now: grassroots site started by Light Rail Now and Walkable Neighborhoods Group in Austin, Texas.
• Light Rail Transit Association:British based organization to promote interests in light rail and urban transit.
• Light Rail Atlas: Dutch-based light rail site that covers the topic, world-wide.
• The Monorail Society: all-volunteer organization founded to foster more awareness and
  promote monorails as a method of transit.
• MetroPanet: private site on all things related to metros, subways and urban rail systems.
  

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Health & Air Quality (smog and its consequences)

• Air Quality Ontario: Government of Ontario information on “Smog Alerts”, “Drive Clean” and “Spare the Air Actions”.
• Ontario Medical Association's Smog info.
• Environment Canada: includes National Ambient Air Quality Objectives.
• Asthma in Canada: information and statistics on asthma.
• Canadian Public Health Association on air pollution: going beyond auto pollution to smoking etc.
• Clean Air Linked to Better Health paper in PDF format from British Medical Journal -The Lancet- article on the auto pollution-health.

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Organizations (related or similar groups)

• City of Ottawa.
• Ecology Ottawa: Ecological group promoting citizen participation
• Action Sandy Hill: Local Community Association.
• Citizens for Healthy Communities: promoting healthy alternatives for the Alta Vista Corridor.
• Glebe Community Association: Local Community Association.
• Old Ottawa South Community Association: Local Community Association.
• Ottawa East Community Association: Local Community Association.
• Heron Park Community Association: Local Community Association.
• West Wellington Community Association: Local Community Association.
• Auto-Free Ottawa web site with excellent information on costs of owning a car - in dollars and health - plus ideas on how to live without it; good links to other sites.
• Friends of the Red Hill Valley: Hamilton Ontario group fighting to save a fragile greenspace from a freeway.
• STORM Coalition: Save The Oak Ridges Moraine Coalition.
• CONE Coalition on the Niagara Escarpment (Mid Peninsula Highway).
• Livable Region Coalition fighting highway expansion in Vancouver.
• Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition: web site makes the connection between public policy and healthy communities.
• Pembina Institute: independent research organization.
• Sierra Club - Canadian chapter.
• Pollution Probe.
• David Suzuki Foundation: environmental activism.
• Ralph Torrie: solutions for climate change.
• Federation of Canadian Municipalities: info on municipal Partner's for Climate Protection program as well as other municipal issues.

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Updated August 13 2008

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