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Originally Posted by OttawaSteve
It seems to me that the Alexandra Bridge is to blame for a lot of the traffic through this intersection, particularly during rush hour. Ideally, I think that once a new interprovincial bridge gets built further east, the Alexandra Bridge should be closed to vehicular traffic.
With cars gone from the Alexandra Bridge, it could be reverted to rail/LRT (along with pedestrians and cyclists), providing a far more direct link between Hull and Ottawa than the Prince of Wales Bridge. LRT entering Ottawa would follow the routing of the original Hull Electric Railway service along the east side of the canal entranceway south to a terminus under Wellington Street, for direct connection with Ottawa's east-west light rail. The construction of this could coincide nicely with the sort of redevelopment of the west side of the Chateau Laurier that's being proposed by Kitchissippi and others.
And on the Hull side, the ridiculously wide road allowance on St-Laurent could be put to proper use accomodating light rail on a RoW up as far as St-Joseph or wherever.
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Though I do really wish that the Alexandra bridge was reconverted to rail, the construction of Des Allumettières just puts too much traffic on this crossing...
But we can dream, can't we?