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Barrhaven gets new interchange, otherwise little new for Ottawa in Ontario budget (www.cbc.ca)
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The province is funding a new Barrhaven interchange along Highway 416 to meet the needs of booming subdivisions in the area — one of Ottawa's few capital projects in the 2024-2025 Ontario budget.

Barrhaven has only one exit off the 416 at Fallowfield Road. A second exit at Bankfield Road further south predominantly serves Manotick.

Barnsdale is in the roughly 10-kilometre gap between the two, offering an easy connection with Greenbank Road.

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[-] Prezhotnuts@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

Now I can get to Toronto 5 mins faster!

[-] veeesix@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

I’m actually looking forward to less congestion throughout the city because of the redirection of traffic.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

Google "Induced Demand"

[-] veeesix@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Before I look this up, is this the same phenomenon related to extra highway 401 lanes in Toronto that didn’t actually relieve congestion?

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

Yup. Basically people start switching to use the thing that you invest in expanding. So traffic can't be improved by adding more car infrastructure. You need to invest in other stuff like trains, streetcars, buses, etc. if you want to alleviate traffic

[-] autotldr 1 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The province is funding a new Barrhaven interchange along Highway 416 to meet the needs of booming subdivisions in the area — one of Ottawa's few capital projects in the 2024-2025 Ontario budget.

Sutcliffe said he was pleased to see investments in infrastructure, with $190.2 billion set aside for major projects such as building highways, hospitals and schools over the next decade.

That includes funding for the long-awaited Highway 416 interchange at Barnsdale Road "to support population growth and development planned by the City for the Barrhaven South area."

Also listed in the budget is continued funding for the redevelopment of The Ottawa Hospital's new Civic campus and a number of elementary and secondary schools in the city and eastern Ontario.

Neil Saravanamuttoo, the Ottawa-based director of non-profit CityShapes, said there had been a request from the city for $20 million in provincial funding for the project.

Most of these measures encourage urban sprawl rather than making use of existing infrastructure in cities like Ottawa, said Saravanamuttoo, adding that method has done little to address the province's housing crisis.

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