New Ottawa Highway May Encourage Sprawl

"The City of Ottawa fears a new east-west rural highway planned by Queen's Park would hurt its own plans for a urban ring road and encourage sprawl...Ten or 15 years from now, Ottawa may be ringed by a new provincial highway, on which motorists would pay tolls to avoid the city's traffic jams...Mr. Chiarelli also says he worries such a highway could wreck the city's planned growth by encouraging urban sprawl."