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Originally Posted by eternallyme
Regarding the Hunt Club southwest section:
* I strongly prefer the Richmond/Hunt Club widening as opposed to a new corridor, due to impacts of such a wide ROW on NCC land, which for the most part is very environmentally sensitive.
* Several houses would need to be expropriated in stage 1 and more would need to be in the ultimate stage.
* In Stage 1, the number of access points would be limited between Eagleson and Cedarview. In Stage 2, it would be fully controlled access.
* Existing Hope Side Road would remain as a service road in its current configuration with full access to residential communities.
* Is protection possible for a new alignment on the south and west sides of Stittsville out towards Highway 7? Such would likely only need to be 2 lanes initially.
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If the purpose of connecting the Hope Side Road to West Hunt Club Road is to provide an easterly path across the Rideau River and/or a connection to the 416, I would rather the City used Strandherd Road. It should be fairly easy to extend the Hope Side Road south-east through the old quarry and connect it to the current Fallowfield/Strandherd interchange with the 416. Fallowfield would be chopped and connected with a 'T' intersection to the new Hope Side Road extension. If people really want to get onto Hunt Club, they can get on the 416 at Strandherd and get off at West Hunt Club, one interchange north.
By taking the traffic up Richmond Road, it travels through the heart of the Stoney Swamp. The original convoluted routing of the planned Hope Side Road extension was due to the NCC saying that there would be NO widening of Richmond Road through the swamp. I guess that by limiting the study's scope to only looking at a connection to Hunt Club and presenting an option which is much worse, the City has stunned the NCC into agreeing to allow the widening of Richmond Road. In my opinion, this is a big mistake.