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The city's recommended solution remains extending Conroy all the way to Nicholas with a 135 million dollar 4-lane road.

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.

$135 million 4-lane road:

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

Most recent major updates to AVC site:

Press April 8

News March 13

What you can do March 13