"CB" (jrcb)
07/12/2016 at 18:52 • Filed to: Ottawalopnik, Canadalopnik
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"CB" (jrcb)
07/12/2016 at 18:52 • Filed to: Ottawalopnik, Canadalopnik | 2
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So, I went for a bike ride with my buddy, and we went a ways west along the Ottawa River. When we decided to turn back, we stopped, glanced down the river, and noticed there weren’t any bridges for a while. I decided to take a look at what bridges cross the Ottawa River in the Ottawa area. Guess how far the next bridge is from downtown?
25 kilometres? Nope.
50 kilometres? Nope.
The shortest drive (on the Quebec side) is 92 kilometres west of Ottawa .
Oh sure, there’s a ferry halfway, but who wants to pay for a ferry?
Now, this raises the question of how far east you have to go from downtown until you hit the next bridge.
Once again, about 95 kilometres. So, in about a two hundred kilometre span of the Ottawa River, there are only seven bridges, with five of them within five and a half kilometres of each other. Kind of interesting when you think about it, because that means that all of our heavy traffic heading into Quebec has to go through downtown Ottawa, since there’s no direct highway. That means that, on a daily basis, you’ll see trucks loaded with logs just driving through part of the city when it’s no big deal. Honestly, after the LRT is finished, maybe having a direct highway going from the 417 to 148, 5, or 50 on the Quebec side wouldn’t be such a bad idea.
Your boy, BJR
> CB
07/12/2016 at 18:57 |
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Ok so what’s that distance in real units of measurement?
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CB
> Your boy, BJR
07/12/2016 at 18:58 |
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Roughly 124 miles is 200 kilometres. So just call it about 60 miles each way.
chaozbandit
> CB
07/12/2016 at 19:10 |
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inb4 Bombardier faces several major delays on the Ottawa LRT, just as they have for Toronto and Waterloo. (or did they sign the German builder, I don’t remember)
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CB
> chaozbandit
07/12/2016 at 19:11 |
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Oh, we’ve already faced delays. It was supposed to be done in 2016, but they’re saying it won’t be finished until 2018. So who knows, it could take until 2020.
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chaozbandit
> CB
07/12/2016 at 19:36 |
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In that case, welcome to the club! At least in the Waterloo case, most of the physical construction and infrastructure for the ION is laid and done with. Just waiting on cars now, but thats delayed because they’re dealing with the TTC delays.
Fun times.
gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
> CB
07/12/2016 at 23:49 |
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A few years back, we had some real bad flooding on the Assiniboine river. Lots of people in my town work at a nearby potash mine. It’s about a 25 km drive regularly. But the bridge over the Assiniboine was under about six feet of water. The detour taking the closest bridge was 250km. There are no other bridges between those two even when the river isn’t flooded. It’s about a 75km drive to the first bridge on our side, but there simply aren’t roads going the same way on the other side of the river, so you end up detouring the extra 25km south, 30km west, 100 km north, and the other 20km back east.