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Originally Posted by Dado
I think Gréber gets a lot of undeserved bad press because of things like the Queensway being turned into a freeway.
Even ideas like the Vanier Parkway/Expressway have to be considered from the perspective of a time in which most goods were still moved by rail.
Anyway, with hindsight, building the Queensway as a freeway rather than an urban boulevard was probably not a good move. I would have put our freeway further south, like roughly along the Baseline-Heron-Walkley axis or along the Beachburg Sub (the east-west railway through Nepean).
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The latter plan might have actually been a good one (along the railway axis) as it would send all the trucks down there near the industrial areas, and would reduce the need to improve the Hunt Club Road corridor. There are no communities divided by the railway at all.
As for the Baseline-Heron-Walkley axis, maybe if that was done before those areas were developed. But by the 1960s it would have divided communities such as Heron Park, Herongate, Bel Air/City View and Pinecrest Park.
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