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Originally Posted by acottawa
As a straight line, Tunney's is maybe 200m closer to downtown than the current location. Seems pretty arbitrary to call one location "downtown" and another location not.
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Yes, but Tunney's is on the main axis of Ottawa proper- which is East/West. For Lowertown, Vanier this represents significantly better road connections to the hosptial. Consider major source of trauma patients through out the year is the Byward Market, which sees significant improvements to the road access.
Consider all the growth areas of the urban core:
- the west core (lyon)
- the flats
- bayview
- the core
- around the byward market and rideau
- westboro
The future of Scott Street is a four lane avenue to Churchill in the west, which provides fast connection to the urban areas in the city. On the east side Slater provides rapid connections to the Byward Market/Sandy Hill and Montreal Road.
When it comes to where people actually live, the 417 is over stated in it's importance.
And the Queensway Carleton will remain the logical location for west of Woodroffe and Barrhaven. The Civic needs to move away from the catchment area of the QCH and towards the Byward Market, Vanier and Sandy Hill. And the other growth areas.
As someone who lived 4 years around Algonquin I went to the QCH as my main hospital.
Spend a lot of time in Google Earth, I don't know, the opportunities seem clear to me.