By Peter Raaymakers, Ottawa Citizen, November 25, 2014
When Dr. Mark Kristmanson called a snap press conference last week to unveil the
National Capital Commission’s position on western light rail, it caught a lot of
people off-guard. And when he “invited” the city to consider two NCC-approved
options for getting rail from Dominion to Lincoln Fields — a deep tunnel under
the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway lands or a short route across Rochester Field
towards Richmond Road — most scoffed. Mayor Jim Watson called it “meddlesome” on
the NCC’s part. Many others, including the Citizen’s Joanne Chianello,
rightfully questioned their insistence on “unimpeded public access to the
shoreline” when the NCC itself maintains the four-lane Sir John A. Macdonald
Parkway impeding that access far more than a 1.2-kilometre, partially buried
rail line. via
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