The option the NCC wants to revisit is this, which the city curiously priced at 1.7 billion, $800 million more (more that the cost of the $681 million downtown tunnel), and was rejected at the first round.
http://documents.ottawa.ca/sites/doc...chmondug_0.pdf
surely there is a middle ground here, as the costing was clearly a mistake, and a hybrid of what is proposed for the Richmond Underground route and this is definitely possible.
furthermore, the option the city advanced was one that had the train running completely on surface along the linear park which the residents were really against, just to make the Richmond Underground route look good.
http://documents.ottawa.ca/sites/doc..._rochester.pdf
The city has been utterly devious here, and should hardly pretend to be the victim of the NCC's manipulations