WEST Overbrook, Ottawa, Traffic Intersections - a pedestrian nightmare'

This is how you create a distinct community - West Overbrook...

 Coventry Road and Vanie (looking South - the Hampton Inn is on the left of the image)

Heading south, you'd cross seven lanes - a piece of cake!

 Vanier (looking north to McArthur from Donald - at this point the RCMP bldg cannot be seen in the distance - is over a quarter kilometer to the next intersection)

 Donald At Vanier (looking west - note the offramp to the left of the image) Heading west you'd cross five lanes!

 Vanier and Montreal Road (looking South note the on ramp to the left)
Heading West you would cross six lanes.

Vanier and McAurthur (looking North note the onramp to the left and the bewildered pedestrian
)
Heading east you'd cross six lanes and often be left unprotected, standing on an island.


All of these intersections require the pedestrian to cross multiple lanes. The speed limit is 60 KPH but often the traffic speed is much higher.

The Vanier Parkway effectively splits Overbrook into two distinct neighborhoods, one is to the east of the parkway, the other is to the west.

The next plan is to take a single pedestrian cross walk and turn it into yet another traffic intersection

Vanier at West Presland (pedestrian corridor) looking north, soon to be converted into another busy traffic intersection.

What choice is there? subsurface tunnels or pedestrian overpass - but the island is built and so it shall remain, WEST OVERBROOK!

And leaving West Overbrook is just as hard, if you live there, you can't escape, its like a legal venus fly trap.Time to get that bike, but remember the 5 months of winter, snow and ice.