General Road and Highway Discussion

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Oh, here's something from Engage WR with a map of 'proposed regional intensification corridors' https://www.engagewr.ca/regional-officia...-corridors

EDIT: Also, a screenshot from p92 of the Amendment to the Regional Official Plan (Aug 2022), which clearly shows Ottawa St marked out for higher-order transit, including an extension over the Grand to Breslau GO, although they don't specifically name the LRT.

Logistically BRT would be a pain to have in the central section of Ottawa (Strasburg to King) because it's so narrow so you'd have to expropriate an entire side of the street, you'd also have to find a way to get through the roundabouts at Alpine and Homer Watson certainly a lane could be taken away from cars but those roundabouts certainly don't need a reduction in capacity.

An LRT would still have the issue of getting through that central section but it could at least utilize the existing track on Ottawa/Borden, the only difficult part would be where and how to locate a transfer station between the lines, utilizing Mill as a transfer station is certainly the most feasible since the track could realistically run elevated from the Laurentian Center through the roundabouts and then drop down along Ardelt which would then allow the trains to interline with the existing track, the King St end would be more difficult to figure out however.