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In January of 2008, the
provincial Ministry of the Environment rejected Citizens for Healthy
Communities' bump-up challenge
of the Environmental Assessment. This means that the City of Ottawa
is starting design work in 2008 on the first phase of this road
project.
The first phase is a
$60+ million link from Riverside Drive to the General Hospital -
the most expensive driveway in Ottawa. The next phases (linking
to the Queensway and to Conroy) cannot proceed until after two reviews
of the Official Plan in 2008 and 2013.
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.
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