PtboOtonabeeCrossing

Extend Marina Blvd across the river to Armour Rd through Meadowvale Park. The city needs another Otonabee River crossing to decrease travel miles and relieve congestion at Nassua Mills and Parkhill.

It may be in the long term plans anyway given existing road capacities and undeveloped land.

It could also lead to the closure of Adam Scott and the unmothballing of the third for of TASSS so there'd be one north end high school. They're only 1km apart (direct distance) but for the river. Current drive distance 3.6km. Marina proposal drive distance ~2.2km x200 school days/year x 600 students.

Consider all the people living near TASSS, in a food desert, who shop on Chemong. From Francis Stewart & Armour to Towerhill & Chemong is 7.1-8.5km one way to get a head of lettuce. With a Marina Blvd Bridge it's 3.25km - the round trip 6.5km is less than current one way. Want to decrease driving distance for a bunch of people... do that. But you put a road through a park.

I would hope for a bridge with pedestrian, cycle and transit (preferably streetcar) capacity on top and with active transportation corridors maintained via tunnels underneath and up/down linkages between.

The river flow is very channelized below the pump house dam and most of the crossing could be a causeway design.