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Originally Posted by silvergate
I mean, why not? Current truck traffic between Montreal and ... maybe Sudbury? definitely does not justify an Ottawa bypass. We could just as easily spend that money on building regional transit connections and serving them with car-shares or local busses.
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The 417 through Ottawa is a fairly major cross-country routing for trucks travelling between Atlantic Canada-Quebec and northern Ontario and western Canada.
Though I think that most goods that are travelling between these regions probably travel by train, and not by truck. (As opposed to Quebec-Ontario traffic on the 401 that is more heavily truck-oriented.)
Also, my guess is that a lot of truck traffic that is going cross-country, even if originating in Montreal and points east, probably needs to go through the GTA or Golden Horseshoe anyway before heading north and west.
All of which reduces intercity truck traffic on the 417 through Ottawa.
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