By Matthew Pearson, Ottawa Citizen, August 26, 2014

he city and province will split the cost of a $750,000 study to examine a
possible tunnel in the downtown core to address the problem of heavy
inter-provincial truck traffic. The city said Tuesday that Parsons, a well-known
international engineering consulting firm, has been hired for the job, which is
expected to take as long as 18 months. via
City, province study downtown truck tunnel | Ottawa Citizen.