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The National Capital Commission has developed an option for the proposed Sir John A. Macdonald Riverfront Linear Park that would reduce the heavily used parkway to just two lanes for part of its length.

The proposal was presented publicly for the first time Wednesday night at a workshop on the proposed linear park, which would extend from the Canadian War Museum to Britannia Park.

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An NCC document shows two scenarios for the parkway: one as a full four-lane divided parkway, like the one that exists today, and one that would reduce it to a two-lane curvilinear parkway from Carling Avenue to Island Park Drive.

The parkway is a key commuter route, used by 9,300 vehicles every weekday, so eliminating two of its lanes would have a significant impact on many users.

By limiting the reduction to the part of the parkway west of Island Park Drive, however, any impact on commuters entering the parkway there and on West Quebec residents who enter from the Champlain Bridge would presumably would be minimized.