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Originally Posted by Tesladom
We don't need a "bypass" for out of town people, we need a secondary route through the city. Many people would find the routes I proposed useful and it would alleviate congestion in the center part of the city
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Indeed. Ottawa is generally the destination unto itself as mentioned; the volume of through traffic is minimal in comparison.
The bypass for the out-of-town folks is a much, much lower secondary priority to the point of being dismissed out of hand as justification on that basis. The Province didn't build the 407 around Toronto so that residents of Peterborough and Kingston could get to Kitchener and London more quickly.
Hunt Club should have been the mobility enhancer across the southern portion of Ottawa. It serves incompletely in this role due to choices made long ago, which made it a suburban arterial east of Woodroffe.
Coming from the west, perhaps if "new" Hunt Club was routed south parallel to Woodroffe, east around the airport (following Fallowfield/Limebank/Letrim axis) and parallel along Lester/Davidson with limited access points, it could more effectively do so.
The problem being that such a thing could not be politically 'sold' as a provincial-scale project very effectively.
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