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Originally Posted by Marshsparrow
There will never be an Ottawa bypass...
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Correct!
Ottawa is the destination, with not that many passing through to get somewhere else.
Therefore, a bypass would be for locals to get from suburb to suburb. Sure, also for exurb to exurb, but most would be from the suburbs.
This road would facilitate the Amazon facilities and more such warehouses, to move goods around Ottawa. It will move thousands of low paid jobs to where transit cannot reach.
As someone who lives in the south, a ring road would be the preferred way to cross the city, instead of heading for Bronson and the Queensway. Hunt Club is too slow to cross the city.
So, all this traffic moving to the ring road, would encourage retail to move outward to interchange nodes. The end result is more traffic to reach these new shopping meccas, and retail in more inner areas will continue to degrade further. And retail workers will be more tied into car travel as well as shoppers. Perfect example of induced demand for car travel, and further degradation of transit, which we cannot afford to serve these new retail nodes along the ring road, other than perhaps the most basic service.