Interprovincial bridge crossing discussion

[Acajack]

Kettle Island *could* solve 80-90% of the King Edward heavy truck problem, if they wanted it to.

[YOWetal]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Kettle Island *could* solve 80-90% of the King Edward heavy truck problem, if they wanted it to.

Could be 100%. But it's a long detour.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by YOWetal

Could be 100%. But it's a long detour.

I don't think there were ever any plans to take heavy trucks completely off the Chaudière, so there is that route as well to the west that would still open to them.

[Tesladom]

Yeah but there's nowhere to go once on the Ottawa side there for trucks, worst than KE

Definitely the Kettle option is a must, I would even forego the Alexandria replacement in favour of Kettle (Manor Park NIMBYs be dammed!)

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Tesladom

Yeah but there's nowhere to go once on the Ottawa side there for trucks, worst than KE

Definitely the Kettle option is a must, I would even forego the Alexandria replacement in favour of Kettle (Manor Park NIMBYs be dammed!)

Scott is a designated truck route as are Bronson and Preston and a number of others in the core.

It's definitely a secondary route compared to King Edward, and would also be of much lesser importance than Kettle Island. But it still would be an option for the minority of trucks that have a western Ottawa to western Gatineau routing.

(Studies have shown the most common interprovincial truck routings are by far between the Innes-Industrial-St Laurent area and Gatineau around Maloney and north-central Hull near the Casino. Kettle Island would be a good alternative for these trips.)

[DTcrawler]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Scott is a designated truck route as are Bronson and Preston and a number of others in the core.

It's definitely a secondary route compared to King Edward, and would also be of much lesser importance than Kettle Island. But it still would be an option for the minority of trucks that have a western Ottawa to western Gatineau routing.

(Studies have shown the most common interprovincial truck routings are by far between the Innes-Industrial-St Laurent area and Gatineau around Maloney and north-central Hull near the Casino. Kettle Island would be a good alternative for these trips.)

Trucks on Scott and/or Preston would be an absolute nightmare.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by DTcrawler

Trucks on Scott and/or Preston would be an absolute nightmare.

They are already there.

[J.OT13]

This a the tramway all over again. "Annoucement is coming, any day now". I don't believe a word he says.

6e lien: une annonce cet automne

Sébastien Larocque | 17 septembre 2024

Le ministre Steven MacKinnon a laissé entendre sur les ondes de TVA Gatineau-Ottawa lundi soir qu’une annonce concernant un 6e lien dans l’Est pourrait se faire d’ici Noël. Son commentaire n’est pas passé inaperçu.

Rappelons que le bureau de projet intégré formé d’experts de Service et approvisionnement Canada et de la Commission de la Capitale-Nationale continue d’évaluer la nécessité d’un lien routier dans l’Est. Ottawa a également autorisé en juin dernier des études supplémentaires pour le corridor de l’Île Kettle. Ce pourrait être un trajet envisagé par le gouvernement fédéral pour le 6e lien.

L’objectif du projet est de réduire la congestion routière aux heures de pointe et la congestion des camions dans les centres-villes. Avec le retour au travail des fonctionnaires, les heures de pointe sont de plus en plus achalandées sur les routes.

Le ministre MacKinnon le disait lundi soir, les défis en transport sont nombreux dans la région, puisque la ville est en croissance. La mairesse a commenté le dossier mardi matin.

https://tvagatineau.ca/6e-lien-une-annonce-cet-automne/