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Originally Posted by Uhuniau
And downtown hospitals in Toronto and Montreal are near the "southern edge" of those respective cities. Point being what?
Did you miss a leading 1? By my measure, it's about 1500m between the closest part of the existing Civic and the proposed Tunney's site.
Either way: much better for the hundreds of thousands of non-suburbanites whose closest hospital will be even more centrally-located than the current site.
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You're referring to the cluster of hospitals around College and University? Those are 3 km from the southern edge of the city (and fairly centrally located within the catchment).
My point being that if you're in the emergency services business (and minimizing travel times save lives) there are advantages to being closer to the centre of your catchment area.
Where are there hundreds of thousands of non-suburbanites in the Ottawa area? How many of these non-suburbanites are closer to the General or Montfort than to Tunney's (and won't be affected anyway)?