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.
Now I can get to Toronto 5 mins faster!
I’m actually looking forward to less congestion throughout the city because of the redirection of traffic.
Google “Induced Demand”
Before I look this up, is this the same phenomenon related to extra highway 401 lanes in Toronto that didn’t actually relieve congestion?
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
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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.
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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