Kanata LRT EA - Bayshore to Palladium

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Another idea they could study: once the entire 416 to 174 section is 8-laned, try dividing the highway into a collector-express system with the inner 2 lanes being express and the outer two lanes being collector. The collector and express sections would be blocked off from each other, except for transfers at the eastern and western edges of downtown (say between Bronson and Rochester in the west and between Riverside and Nicholas in the east). Much of the congestion on the 417 comes from the interchanges and the lane changes required for people to use them, so doing something like this would allow downtown-bound and cross-town traffic to separate from local traffic, allowing the former group to skip all the congestion caused by the interchanges.