Rethinking the Queensway

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While the Queensway is not perfect, the result of not having it would be a ton of raods along the lines of King Edward Avenue.

No one loves trucks, but the reality is they are how goods get to stores and such. It is much better to give trucks and heavy traffic a proper route.


This is what is even happening on King Edward and Rideau. No one wants trucks there but they will at least for the time being.

When the road was redone they did not adequately round out corners and such to accommodate long trailers. Sadly I can picture what the result of that is going to be (and it ain't pretty) The result is much better to properly accommodate this stuff than not. The Queensway is a big part of that.



The other thing is that looking at Historical photos of the city, statements like "the Queensway divided neighbourhoods" or "the Queensway cut through neighbourhoods" are not accurate. The land where most of the Queensway (particularly the downtown part) was previously a railway, which if left as a railway would have and did cut those areas in half every bit as much as the highway does. Actually the highway with overpasses and landscaped embankments probably actually is less impactful than level crossings and chain linked fences - but I suppose that is a matter of opinion.