The City of Ottawa will begin installing new safety measures on Rideau Street this week in the area where a pedestrian was killed by a transport truck last year.

A series of concrete posts — also known as bollards — will line Waller Street at Rideau Street, where 26-year-old Yvonne Hendrikx, an Ottawa Heart Institute employee, was struck early one morning in February 2014.

The bollards are designed to prevent transport trucks from riding dangerously up onto the sidewalk. Mathieu Fleury, the councillor who represents the ward, pushed hard to have the bollards included in the $30-million plan to improve the Rideau streetscape.

Flowers adorn a post last February near the place where Yvonne Hendrikx was struck and killed. (Kristy Nease/CBC)

While the bollards will offer a degree of protection for people walking on Waller Street, the long-term solution is a tunnel that would deliver interprovincial truck traffic from Hwy. 417 directly onto the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge, bypassing Rideau Street entirely, said Fleury.

"You know, as a councillor, you always have things that keep you up at night," said Fleury. "Trucks in our downtown streets keep me up at night."

A feasability study on the tunnel plan is expected in January.