Interprovincial bridge crossing discussion

[Acajack]

Kettle Island *could* solve 80-90% of the King Edward heavy truck problem, if they wanted it to.

[YOWetal]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Kettle Island *could* solve 80-90% of the King Edward heavy truck problem, if they wanted it to.

Could be 100%. But it's a long detour.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by YOWetal

Could be 100%. But it's a long detour.

I don't think there were ever any plans to take heavy trucks completely off the Chaudière, so there is that route as well to the west that would still open to them.

[Tesladom]

Yeah but there's nowhere to go once on the Ottawa side there for trucks, worst than KE

Definitely the Kettle option is a must, I would even forego the Alexandria replacement in favour of Kettle (Manor Park NIMBYs be dammed!)

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Tesladom

Yeah but there's nowhere to go once on the Ottawa side there for trucks, worst than KE

Definitely the Kettle option is a must, I would even forego the Alexandria replacement in favour of Kettle (Manor Park NIMBYs be dammed!)

Scott is a designated truck route as are Bronson and Preston and a number of others in the core.

It's definitely a secondary route compared to King Edward, and would also be of much lesser importance than Kettle Island. But it still would be an option for the minority of trucks that have a western Ottawa to western Gatineau routing.

(Studies have shown the most common interprovincial truck routings are by far between the Innes-Industrial-St Laurent area and Gatineau around Maloney and north-central Hull near the Casino. Kettle Island would be a good alternative for these trips.)

[DTcrawler]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Scott is a designated truck route as are Bronson and Preston and a number of others in the core.

It's definitely a secondary route compared to King Edward, and would also be of much lesser importance than Kettle Island. But it still would be an option for the minority of trucks that have a western Ottawa to western Gatineau routing.

(Studies have shown the most common interprovincial truck routings are by far between the Innes-Industrial-St Laurent area and Gatineau around Maloney and north-central Hull near the Casino. Kettle Island would be a good alternative for these trips.)

Trucks on Scott and/or Preston would be an absolute nightmare.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by DTcrawler

Trucks on Scott and/or Preston would be an absolute nightmare.

They are already there.