By David Reevely, Ottawa Citizen, September 7, 2016
Count on paying to use a new traffic tunnel connecting Highway 417 and the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge to Gatineau that’ll only get built if the provincial and federal governments agree to pay for it.
Although the city government is committed to finding a way to reduce truck traffic on Rideau Street and King Edward Avenue, it’s budgeted no money for building or operating any way of doing it. Certainly not for a kilometres-long tunnel under Lowertown and Sandy Hill that could cost up to $2 billion.
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