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Originally Posted by rocketphish
Here's a visual aid for this discussion...
The following mashup depicts the shortest current route from the A5\A50 junction to Hwy 417, which is 6.2km via the KERWN corridor. The same trip via a Kettle Island bridge would be approx 19.4km, or 13.2km longer. Ignore the estimated travel times, which happen to be bad right now through the core.
And clearly the worst impact is on truck traffic coming and going from central and west Ottawa. Traffic coming and going to east Ottawa would have a less long "detour", as it would be travelling to the vicinity of The Split anyway.
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I'm sleep deprived so please forgive me if I'm missing something obvious, but doesn't your image show that a trip on the new crossing would be ~12km, or only about 6km more than via KERWN?
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