Reevely: Hoping for a windfall, Ottawa hurries to get Barrhaven rail underpass plans 'shovel-ready'
The city is hurrying to get studies done for rail overpasses in Barrhaven, hoping to have plans to wave if upper-level governments show up with bags of money.
The rush comes after a 20-year delay on the projects, which local governments first investigated in the mid-1990s, and four years after a northbound OC Transpo bus on the Transitway adjacent to Woodroffe ran through a warning gate and hit a passing Via train, killing six people.
The city’s about to hire consultants for a f
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