Last Updated: Friday, November 23, 2007 | 12:02 PM ET
CBC News
A new transit plan put forward by a committee of Ottawa councillors earlier this week would make downtown congestion worse and is unlikely to get federal and provincial funding, says local transit advocate David Jeanes.
"They're going for a major expansion of bus transitways, even though nothing has been done to solve the capacity and congestion issues that buses are causing downtown," he told CBC in an interview aired Friday on Ottawa Morning.
"The federal and provincial governments understand that and they're very unlikely to agree either to their existing money being spent on this way or any future money to be
spent on a bus tunnel — a completely unproven concept — deep under downtown Ottawa."
The new plan passed by the joint transportation and transit committee Wednesday includes:
