Info on Alternatives: Road Widening

See the executive summary on the MTO site and/or the full TESR report details at www.417ea-tesr.com.

A brief summary of current alternatives is also on this site.

What the MTO's site does not highlight are the downsides and full costs of the road widening proposals which include:

• greater imbalance between the Queensway and the connecting arterial roads,
• more congestion in the long run,
• more smog (see current Queensway emissions),
• more health related problems and deaths,
• making it harder to meet Federation of Canadian Municipalities Partners for Climate Protection and Kyoto Protocol targets,
• undermining Ottawa's Official Plan priorities for transportation by perpetuating the MTO's practice of spending 10 times as much on roads as on transit (the Official Plan priorities for transportation are pedestrians first, cycling second, transit third and single occupant vehicles last),
• the Queensway will move one lane closer to the homes on portions of all the following residential streets: Burgess, Dumaurier, Queensgrove, Kilarney, Riddell, Harvey, Hawthorne, Concord, Hurdman and Lees,
• putting parks and over 20 homes at risk, as listed below (click on images for more details):

  Ballantyne Park	Homes on Westmount	Concord Home

See the section on Rapid Transit for details on how much more bang for the buck we could get if the province put the money in rapid transit instead.

Updated January 31, 2007

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