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The new Transportation Master Plan (TMP) coming before City Council in November is proposing to spend $680 million on new arterial road capacity including the Alta Vista Corridor in the next 6 years. We cannot afford these arterial expansions.

The city's recommended solution remains extending Conroy all the way to Nicholas with a 135 million dollar 4-lane road. The first phase is a $60+ million link from Riverside Drive to the General Hospital - the most expensive driveway in Ottawa. These costs estimates are from 2005 and are low. The asphalt alone will be at least 50% more expensive now.

See News for details and What to do for how you can help.

Under the supervision of city staff, the consultants on this project have skewed the analysis to the point where they claim a road is better for air quality than transit. They are in denial of the bottlenecks in downtown and at the 417 which will make this a congestion disaster both for its users and for existing users of the Queensway.

In the Alternatives page you will see details of the planned road (all the way from Conroy to Nicholas) as presented to the Public Advisory Committee as well as more cost effective and environmentally superior transit based choices which have not been properly compared.

Ottawa's asphalt addiction - a relic of 1960s car-centric planning

This is a lot more than just a link to the hospital. This will add to the congestion on the Queensway at Nicholas.

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