New Bridge at Aviation Parkway

 

The Federal government, currently in disarray has once again announced a new interprovincial bridge.

Much to the chagrin of Overbrook residents of Manor Park this project is much needed and in my opinion will ultimately proceed.

For some, this proposal keeps coming back like a bad rash.

Residents complain of pollution transfer but people are getting killed and injured at the corner of King Edward and Rideau.

Think!

"About 3,500 trucks cross the Ottawa River on a typical weekday, according to the National Capital Commission's interprovincial truck survey released this year. About 72 per cent use the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge, which dumps traffic into Lowertown."

Get those semis out of downtown, support the bridge and find a way to make this project work for Ottawa by getting ahead of the design issues especially at the Montreal Road, Aviation Parkway intersection.

STEPHANIE Plante, councillor has said, ""We know that it is unacceptable to have truck traffic going down one of the most low-income and racialized communities of Ottawa's downtown core" 

Read my previous article from 2019

https://peterkarwacki.blogspot.com/2019/03/tunnels-and-bridges-pas-de-problem.html?m=0

Kettle Island bridge

Related Links

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7412912

https://www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/comments/1ebmsl/ncc_suggests_kettle_island_for_new_bridge/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/kettle-island-seen-as-best-interprovincial-bridge-option-1.1358318

Kettle Island is the third-largest island in the Ottawa River, after Île aux Allumettes and Grand-Calumet. NCC acquired 98 per cent of the island's surface"