I think it might be overkill for the number of ambulances per day. There were about 134 000 ambulance trips in Ottawa last year, which we can crudely divide by 365 days and 4 major hospitals. That means that there would be something like 90ish daily ambulance trips to the Civic. And we can definitely assume that not all of those will be using the Queensway.
Basically, I don't think that there are so many ambulances that we would need to completely reconfigure the street network. Especially when one-way streets themselves are more prone to causing serious accidents in the first place!
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