By Don Butler, Ottawa Citizen, January 6, 2015

Closing the westbound lanes of the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway to vehicular
traffic is a key element of a Queen’s University plan that re-imagines the
heavily travelled parkway as part of a linear park along the Ottawa River. The
plan, the product of three months’ work by nine graduate students from the
Queen’s School of Urban and Regional Planning, was presented to the National
Capital Commission last month. via
Close parkway lanes for ‘linear park’, students’ plan recommends | Ottawa
Citizen.