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Originally Posted by Acajack
Thanks. There is something this weird vision here that a metropolitan transportation system should be a barrier or a stopgap instead of an "enabler".
Some cities (especially in the U.S.) have gone too far with highways and due to that and other factors their cores got hollowed out.
But generally speaking, having people being able to easily access jobs, shopping and other activities all over the metro area, regardless of where they live, is actually a *good* thing, not a bad one.
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Plus, funneling all interprovincial vehicle traffic through the downtown core does nothing to revitalize it. The vast majority don't stop downtown but just use King Edward as a highway. Detouring a large percentage of those vehicles (be they trucks or cars) away from downtown would be a good thing for central Ottawa.