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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe
The military is one big vanity project. Anyone who wants to argue that is either blind to how our military is, or does not want to admit it. We are there to look pretty and not make the government look bad.
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The Canadian military is an attempt to meet our NATO obligations. We might be falling short on that attempt, but it is still an attempt.
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This is not about the people living close to Ottawa. I already said west of North Bay and east of Montreal. That is more like 20 million... But,no not that many people will actually use the highway.... It is part of the trans Canada highway system. So, unless cross Canada traffic that goes through Ottawa actually stops in Ottawa, the bypass would serve them.
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While it might officially be part of the TransCanada Highway system, but that is really just a symbolic gesture. Also, don't forget that when the TransCanada highway was mapped out, Toronto played second fiddle to Montreal as Canada's largest and most influential city and Toronto was only considered worth a detour, not a destination unto itself.
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Both should be done. I am even for a GO train style system in the Ottawa area
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Please don't encourage the government build North America's second largest collection of parking garages (second only to Metrolinx in the GTHA).
Seriously though, without a downtown station, commuter rail becomes problematic as it would overload the O-Train on the busiest segment of the route in the same direction as the normal commuter flow. When you combine that with the tiny populations in Ottawa's exurbs, the utilization beyond the suburbs would be low.
If the Ontario government wanted to do something (which they don't) a GO bus network would be a great start. Buses can pick up people closer to where they live, are smaller, so that they can provide more frequent service and would encourage the government to build HOV lanes on the provincial highways to get travel times that are as fast, if not faster, than a train would be.
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