A consultant's study for the National Capital Commission has recommended a new bridge in the capital should connect Ottawa and Gatineau via Kettle Island in the east end.

The bridge would start at Mont�e Paiement on the Quebec side, crossing the Ottawa River near the Aviation Museum. Traffic would move down Aviation Parkway across Montreal and Ogilvie roads before linking up with Hwy. 417.

As CTV Ottawa reported first, the study also eliminates any future bridge crossing in the west end through either Andrew Haydon Park or Moodie Drive.

The Kettle Island recommendation would divert the loud, snorting mass of trucks that currently move downtown along King Edward Avenue.

But Manor Park and Vanier residents stopped a bridge there during the 1960s and appear ready to fight again. The plan is already being criticized by the provincial cabinet minister who represents Ottawa-Vanier.

"We are suggesting a solution that a suggestion 50 years ago, for 2008," said Madeleine Meilleur, the minister of community and social services. "So it's very disappointing.

"I'm sure that my community will be out there and it's the entire Ottawa-Vanier who's against Kettle Island."

The route could affect both the Rockcliffe Flying Club and Rockcliffe Yacht Club.

"I mean, there is a lot of children around here," said Ann Bilow, who lives near the proposed route.

"Be a lot of noise and right now, the place is so quiet. It's like this all the time. Day and night."

Experts from Roche-NCE have been studying 10 potential future crossings, which included popular choices at Lac Desch�nes in the city's west end.

The consultants' number two technical option is Lower Duck Island, just outside Orleans. But the Kettle Island plan has political support from Cumberland Councillor Rob Jellett.

"The technical requirements have shown very clearly that Kettle Island is the best location," he said.

"Why would we look anywhere else?"

Public meetings on the bridge study and recommendations will be held in Gatineau on Sept. 23 and in Ottawa on Sept. 24 at Lansdowne Park.

Any potential bridge is at least 10 years away, meaning the deer on Kettle Island won't be disturbed anytime soon.

With a report from CTV Ottawa's Norman Fetterley