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Originally Posted by rocketphish
Alto spokesman Benoit Bourdeau said the northern option would cut through harder rock formations that could affect construction and cost. The southern option avoids some of that terrain but would be longer and add to travel times.
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This is interesting context. Knowing that area a bit, I find it hard to imagine that you wouldn't still be blasting through shield every few kilometres, but I suppose the word "some" is doing heavy lifting in that statement.
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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
That's the part I'm not following with all the downtown talk. There's no tracks going to downtown Ottawa and there doesn't appear to be a way to create any without reclaiming park space which I can't see being very popular. Especially since the park space in question isn't just ordinary space but rather a very prominent part of town near the landmark canal. So I'm exactly sure what people are proposing and guesses make me nervous of scope creep.
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Beside the canal would be relatively easy in my view. You could cut and cover under Colonel By. The tricky part would be getting across the Rideau River and more than that, the 417. The straightest route would be to follow the old alignment, from Tremblay across the Rideau and perpindicular across the 417/Nicholas/Lees/LRT spaghetti to Col. By. But that would either require a very complex, ugly, and expensive bridge, or an expensive tunnel. Going through Springhurst Park would be a bit simpler but require a sharper turn.
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Originally Posted by Kitchissippi
I have the same thoughts. There’s already a bottleneck at that crazy Elgin/Wellington/Rideau/Sussex intersection, I can’t imagine adding the kind of drop off/pick up scenario that happens at Tremblay.
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Ok, imagining all of the drop offs and pickups from Union pretty much just completely killed the idea for me.
I hope we can think of a grand and worthy permanent use for that building, though. It deserves to be more than government overflow space.
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