A new location for a popular bus route stop has caused quite a stir in Ottawa's east end.
An Orleans woman came home to find crews digging up the lawn beside her house and was told a bus stop would be going there instead.
Nancy Sanford is angry because the city never told her about its plans.
"My reaction was that I was furious because there had been no consultation. There had been no prior notice to me and I run a daycare here and it's a safety issue for my daycare children and it's also a noise and pollution factor," she said.
Asphalt has already been poured on the lawn beside Sanford's house.
This new location isn't an extra stop on the route. It's a pre-existing stop that is moving 3 houses down.
The city says the move is because the current stop is too close to another one, but Sanford said she doesn't see the point.
"The one that's here and the next one have always been fine and have always served the in feeding streets without any difficulty so why you would have to move one just to 'even up the spacing' is beyond me," she said.
Ottawa Councillor Rainer Bloess said the city tries not to relocate bus stops unless there's a need for it.
"When there is an opportunity to look at 'is there a better location?', 'is there a safer location?', 'is it better suited on this lawn than that lawn? And in this case the pros and cons were weighed and there's a determination that this is a better location," he said.
"But that doesn't diminish her concerns."
Sanford calls the move a "huge waste of money" for taxpayers. Bloess says the city has every right to move the stop to the new location.
He added the size of the pavement pad for the spot may be made smaller.
With a report from CTV Ottawa's Katie Griffin.
