I know that we discussed Quebec Hgy 50 before but I couldn't find the thread to it, so I'm starting a new thread, for what it's worth.
The news are that this highway that has been 50 years in the making (first planned in 1962 under Jean Lesage's Quiet Revolution government) is now fully open from Gatineau to Montreal.
http://ledroit.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
Its 189 Kms makes it shorter and quicker than Ontario's 417 as well as being more panoramic. It can be picked at it's very beginning off Montcalm St where the old CPR station used to be and, I think, the STO Rapibus is also ending (??).
Humm..!
What if HGY 50 was extended to the Ontario side using the Prince of Wales Bridge right-of-way? or if Ontario & Quebec & the feds would build a LRT/Rapibus and car traffic bridge at that site that would link up the Ottawa River Parkway (aka John A. Macdonald Parkway) to Hgy 50?
It took 50 years to build Hgy 50.
How long should it take for an interprovincial bridge that makes sense?
It could link to the 417 at Gladstone with a road built over the O-Train tracks?
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