A city of Ottawa committee heard Tuesday that the National Capital Commission is considering closing the Queen Elizabeth Driveway to cars permanently, but the NCC says it hasn't made a final call. ottnews
The head of the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group said he understands the NCC plans to close the Driveway to vehicles all the way to Preston Street near Dow's Lake.
"I know that's a concern for the city in my conversations with them from a transportation, from a neighbourhood traffic and from a … safety and emergency response perspective," Goudie said. "We heard back from people last year with the partial closures that, you know, people had a harder time getting to to TD Place."
But if the road closes all the way to Preston next summer, that's an additional three kilometres of roadway that would be inaccessible to cars. But Joe Cotroneo, owner of Pub Italia on Preston Street, says closing one road just makes more traffic elsewhere.
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