Stop The Kettle Island Bridge

Further arguments for an alternate route: Lower Duck/Beauchamp

In a previous posting, we presented an alternate route. Let’s call it Option 6B – Lower Duck/Beauchamp.

Here are a few points to reinforce the validity and overall attractiveness of this option:

• Ottawa wants to prohibit trucks on King Edward/Rideau Streets. Gatineau wants to limit trucks on Montée Paiement in the Kettle Island corridor. The solution may be to build a bridge outside of the city cores and designate it as a truck route in an essentially vacant corridor on both sides of the river – Lower Duck/Beauchamp.
• On the Quebec side, the corridor follows a new route through green space that is mainly bush land and on the Ontario side follows the same route as the current Alternative 6, away from communities.
• This variation on Alternative 6 offers many of the traffic/transportation advantages that Alternative 5, Kettle Island, does but it reduces significantly the main opposition to Alternative 5 i.e. the serious impacts on institutions and on people living in the corridor. Kettle Island is the worst option for transit and according to the consultant encourages car use. This new corridor would provide good connection to planned transit facilities on both sides of the river.

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An alternate route?

There have been a number of references in recent weeks to the fact that there may exist better options beyond the top three alternatives presented by ROCHE-NCE.  Each of the current alternatives has flaws – some to greater extents than others.

If there are better options, what would they look like?  And will the terms of reference for Phase 2 of the study permit further exploration of potentially better options?

Below is one suggested alternate route, a variation on Corridor 6 (Lower Duck), that just may be a more balanced option that could potentially better represent the broader needs of the National Capital Region.

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