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The Trans-Canada Highway continues west through the
Ottawa Valley along
Highway 17. Click
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| City of Ottawa |
This
Photos showcases the transition between a
divided freeway, and a conventional 2-lane highway. Future western
Highway 417 extensions will have to content with a long valley crossing with
a new high level bridge over the Madawaska River. The MTO is currently
in the detailed design stage for extending Highway 417 through Arnprior.
Click here to continue
westerly through the Ottawa Valley along Highway 17.
Photo taken: October 23rd, 2004.
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City of Ottwawa |
This Photo shows a broader view
of the previous Photo.
The parclo A-2 format Ottawa Road 29 interchange is the most westerly
interchange on Highway 417. Ottawa Road 29 is one of the main roads
into Arnprior from Ottawa.
Photo taken: October 23rd, 2004.
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| City of Ottawa |
Highway 417 looking east from the Ottawa Road 29 overpass. As can be
seen in the Photo. The WB (left) carriageway only has one driving
lane in it. The WB 417 carriageway narrows to 1 lane, near Galetta Sideroad. This premature lane
ending is reportedly to ease the transition between the freeway and its
non-divided continuation as Highway 17.
Photo taken: October 23rd, 2004.
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| City of Ottawa |
Highway 417 looking west from the
Galetta Road overpass in northeast Ottawa. Galetta Road is located
roughly at kilometre 176. Highway 417 features an intermittent treed
median from Galetta Sideroad, easterly to Ottawa Road 29.
Photo taken: October 23rd,
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking east from the Galetta Sideroad along Highway 417. Galetta
Sideroad is located roughly at kilometre marker 176. Photo taken:
October 23rd, 2004. Size: 40kb. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking west along Highway 417 from the Kinburn Sideroad. In the
distance of this photo, the twin Mississippi River bridges can be seen.
These structures were completed in 2002, (two years prior to Highway 417's
opening), and represented a major engineering achievement. The
structure is located atop a large wetland and floodplain, in an area with
notably poor soil quality.
Photo taken: October 23rd, 2004. Size: 50kb. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking east from the Kinburn Sideroad overpass. Kinburn Sideroad is
located roughly at kilometre marker 169. Photo taken: October 23rd,
2004. Size: 45kb. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Highway 417 looking west from Panmure
Road in Ottawa. Panmure Road marks the beginning of the recently
completed (September 2004) Highway 417 extension to Arnprior. The
clearing of trees that can be seen in the centre of the image marks the old
Highway 17 alignment that was cut in favour of the new Highway 417 freeway.
Highway 417 was built on an entirely new alignment from Panmure Road to
Arnprior, unlike previous freeway extensions from Highway 7 to Panmure Road.
Photo taken: October 23rd, 2004.
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking east towards Ottawa from the Panmure Drive overpass. Before
September 2004, Panmure Drive was the last interchange along Highway 417
before it narrowed from 4- to 2-lanes, becoming Highway 17.
Photo taken: October 23rd, 2004. Size: 55kb. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking west towards Arnprior from the Vaughan Sideroad overpass.
Vaughan Sideroad is located roughly at kilometre marker 159. Photo
taken: October 23rd, 2004. Size: 50kb. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking east along Highway 417 from the Vaughan Sideroad overpass.
Notice the slight meander of the left (westbound) carriageway in the photo.
This carriageway was constructed in the mid 1960s and (quite surprisingly)
was not reconstructed when the highway was twinned in the late-1990s.
Photo taken: October 23rd, 2004. Size: 45kb. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking west from the Highway 44 (now Ottawa Road 49) overpass near Carp.
Photo taken: October 23rd, 2004. Size: 55kb. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking east towards Ottawa from the Highway 44 overpass. The highway
44 overpass is located roughly at kilometre marker 155. Photo taken:
October 23rd, 2004. Size: 50kb. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking west towards Arnprior from the McGee Sideroad overpass. McGee
Sideroad is located roughly at kilometre marker 151. Photo taken:
October 23rd, 2004. Size: 50kb. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking towards Ottawa from the McGee Sideroad overpass. Photo taken:
October 23rd, 2004. Size: 50kb. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking westerly from the Richardson Sideroad overpass. Richardson
Sideroad is located roughly at kilometre marker 148. Photo taken:
October 23rd, 2004. Size: 50kb. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking east from the Richardson Sideroad overpass. Just beyond this
long sweeping curve is the Highway 7 interchange. East of the Highway
7 interchange, Highway 417 passes through Kanata, a large suburb of Ottawa.
Photo taken: October 23rd, 2004. Size: 50kb. |
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Highway 7 begins
its trek easterly through Peterborough, north of Toronto, and eventually to
Sarnia at this interchange.
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here for Highway 7 images. |
| City of Ottawa |
The overhead assembly eastbound at the Highway
7/417 split in Kanata. This gantry is still signed using an older
Ontario signage style. This sign itself is a relic from before the 417
actually went past Highway 7. These
older style sings are becoming quite rare, and likely will soon be totally
removed from Ontario's freeways.
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| City of Ottawa |
View looking westerly from the Carp Road overpass in western Kanata.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
View
looking easterly from the Carp road overpass. The high-mast lighting
was added through this interchange when the first stage of the Highway 7
freeway was opened en route to Carleton Place.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Overhead sign gantry for the Highway 7 interchange affixed to the Carp Road
overpass. The ramp to Highway 7 was recently widened to two lanes as
part of the twinning of highway 7 between Carleton Place and Ottawa.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Advanced signage for Palladium Drive. Palladium was the first name for
what has become Scotia Bank Place. Notice that no distance is
indicated on this sign as to exactly how far away the exit is. There
are a number of signs lacking distance to the exit in the Ottawa area.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Westbound exit signage for the ramp to Eagleson Road, and March Road in
Kanata. Eagleson/March Road is the western limit of the first contract
of the Queensway widening through Kanata.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Westbound advanced signage for the ramp to Eagleson and March Road.
Notice that Kanata is still used as a control city despite the amalgamation
of Ottawa into a single-tier 'mega-city' in 2001. The identities of
the former cities that made up Metropolitan Toronto are not similarly signed
in this fashion.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
View looking easterly from the Moodie Drive overpass. Note the long
ramp extension from Highway 416 to Highway 417 Westbound that prevents
traffic from Highway 416 from exiting at Moodie Drive.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Westbound signage at the Moodie
Drive interchange.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Advanced
arrow signage for Highway 416. Highway 401 is often used in lieu of a
control city on Highway 416. The 416 ends near the small town of Prescott.
Prescott is not much of a destination, the use of Highway 401
is far more logical.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Signage
at the ramp to Highway 416. Notice the rather unconventional signage for
the ramp to Holly Acres and Richmond Roads -- this is the only sign like
this in the province -- typically advanced signage is marked with an
overhead arrow.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
The ramp to Holly Acres and Richmond Roads departs the Queensway from the right-most
lane from the freeway. Through Kanata the highway has six lanes plus
an HOV lane in each direction. East of Highway 416, the Queensway has
only six basic lanes with sporadic auxiliary lanes between interchanges.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
View looking westerly from the Richmond Road overpass towards the Highway
416 interchange. Much like the Moodie Drive interchange, notice that
the ramp from Richmond Road does not allow access from Richmond to Highway
416.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
This view looks easterly from the Richmond Road overass. Notice the
new OC-Transpo busway that passes underneath the westbound Richmond Road
off-ramp. There are a number of these bus exclusive (Bus-Rapid
Transit) roadways throughout the City of Ottawa.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Highway 417 looking west from Pinecrest Road/Greenbank
Drive. This is a fairly typical looking cross-section of Highway 417
through western Ottawa.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Highway 417 looking east from
Pinecrest Road/Greenbank Road in Ottawa. Through Central Ottawa,
Highway 417 has a 6-/8-lane urban cross-section.
Photo taken: September 12th,
2009.
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| City of Ottawa |
Overhead
guide signage for the Woodroffe Ave interchange. Notice that Nepean
still appears on the guide signage. A lot of Carleton Region's former
municipalities still appear on guide signage even almost 10 years (2009)
after the City of Ottawa was amalgamated with the Region forming a single
tier government.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
View
looking westerly from the Woodroffe Avenue overpass.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Advanced signage for the Carling Avenue interchange. Carling Avenue is
the principal east-west arterial through western Ottawa. It was once
part of Highway 17B, and was the original routing of Highway 17 through
Ottawa before the Ottawa Queensway (Highway 417) was constructed.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Eastbound advanced sign for Parkdale Ave. The Ottawa Queesway has
eight-through lanes from the Carling Avenue interchange through to Kent
Street. The remainder of the highway through Central Ottawa has only a
six lane cross-section.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Exit signage for Bronson Avenue. Bronson Avenue was part of the now
defunct Highway 31 that ran between Morrisburg and Ottawa. Bronson Avenue
is one of West-Central Ottawa's principal north-south roads and is marked as
the route to Ottawa's Macdonald-Cartier
International Airport. Ottawa's Airport is poorly served by road
transportation, Bronson Avenue is completely inadequate as
the principal route between the Queensway and the Airport.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Guide signage at the Kent Street interchange. Kent Street is the
principal route from the Queensway into Downtown Ottawa, and to the
Parliament Buildings. Before downloading, Kent Street also carried the
Highway 17B designation.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Metcalfe Street exit. Metcalfe Street is another Downtown Access,
though it is more circuitous than Kent Street.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Exit signage for Nicholas Street. Nicholas Street was the first stage
of an expressway that was to link Autoroute 5 in Quebec directly to the
Ottawa Queensway. This link was never completed, and now all traffic
(including interprovincial trucks) must use route that jogs along local
streets.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
View looking westerly from the Lees Avenue overpass.
Photo taken: September 13th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking easterly from Lees Avenue towards the Riverside Drive & Vanier
Parkway interchange. Note the signage directing traffic to the
Stadium. The Stadium formerly housed the Ottawa Linx -- the Triple-A affiliate of the Montreal Expos. When the Expos
moved from Montreal to Washington the Linx moved from Ottawa to Scranton,
PA.
Photo taken: September 13th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Westerly view from the Vanier Parkway overpass towards the Hurdman Bridge.
The Hurdman Bridge is a local name for the Queensway's crossing of the
Rideau River.
Photo taken: September 13th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Easterly view from Vanier Parkway. The Ottawa Linx
Stadium can be seen directly to the left of the freeway. With the
departure of the Linx, Ottawa's
baseball stadium will house a new team in
the Intercounty Baseball League (IBL) starting in 2010.
Photo taken: September 13th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
View from the Belfast Road overpass looking west towards the Vanier Parkway
interchange. Highway 417 through Ottawa is very dissimilar from most
other provincial freeways in Ontario. Most highways around large
cities are quite suburban in nature, while Highway 417 bisects the heart of
Downtown Ottawa. The 417 bares much more a resemblance to Toronto's
Gardiner Expressway than it does any other freeway in the GTA.
Photo taken: September 13th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Easterly view from the Belfast Road overpass towards the St. Laurent
Boulevard interchange. The high-mast lighting that adorns this freeway
is the oldest of its kind in Ontario. If you look closely at the light
standards you can see that early high-mast in Eastern Region was much more
reminiscent of flood lamps angled towards the freeway than today's iteration
of the lights are. The Sir John A. Macdonald interchange in
Kingston is lit in a similar fashion.
Photo taken: September 12th, 2009. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Exit signage for St Laurent Boulevard along Highway 417. This overhead
sign also provides the first EB mention of
Highway 17's (former) eastern continuation through Orleans. As
evident from the sign, Highway 17 splits
from the left hand side of the 417, leaving the 417 with two through lanes
for the remainder of the highways length.
Photo taken: October 22nd, 2004. Size: 40kb. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Diagramic sign for the eastbound
split of Highway 17/417 split. Ottawa Road 174 (Former
Highway 17) is
a busy 4-lane freeway from Ottawa easterly into Orléans.
Photo taken: October 22nd, 2004. Size:
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| City of Ottawa |
Eastbound Highway 417 sign
approaching the Highway 17/417 split in the eastern part of Ottawa.
This is a very unfortunate situation, as despite being bypassed by Highway
417 to the south, Highway 17
was certainly provincially significant east of
the city, particularly the 4-lane freeway section through Orléans.
Photo taken: October 22nd, 2004. Size:
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| City of
Ottawa |
Night view looking easterly from the Cyrville Road
overpass. I really like the central box-beam median through this
portion of highway.
Photo taken: December 7th, 2008. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Easterly view of the split at night. I find it
interesting how much traffic is bound for Old Highway 17 and not the 417.
Photo taken: December 7th, 2008. |
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Highway 17 begins once again in the east end of
Ottawa carrying traffic through Rockwood, and Hawksbury to meet Highway 417
once again near the Quebec border. Click here for Highway 17 images. |
| City of Ottawa |
Highway 417 driving west through the Highway
17/417 interchange. The signs that are shown in this Photo are
supported by a odd and unique sign gantry. These 'round-tube-truss'
gantries are found only on the 417 in the east end of Ottawa.
Photo taken: October 23rd, 2004. |
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| City of Ottawa |
This view looks westerly from Cyrville Road, this time
east of the split.
Photo taken: December 7th, 2008. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Easterly view from Cyrville Road East. The rounded
tube gantries carrying the Innes Road signs are found only near the 'Split'
on the 417 in Ottawa.
Photo taken: December 7th, 2008. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking westerly towards the Highway 17 (Ottawa Road 174) interchange from
the Innes Road overpass. Innes Road is located at approximately
kilometre marker 112. Photo taken: October 22nd, 2004. Size: 60kb. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking easterly from the Innes Road overpass. The MTO is currently in
the detailed design phase to widen this suburban stretch of Highway 417 from
4- to 6-lanes. The eastern project limits of this widening will likely
coincide with the proposed Hunt Club Road extension and interchange.
Photo taken: October 22nd, 2004. Size: 65kb. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking east towards Montreal from the Boundary Road overpass. Photo
taken: October 22nd, 2004. Size: 50kb. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking west towards Ottawa from the Devine Road overpass. Devine Road
is located at roughly kilometre marker 92. Photo taken: October 22nd,
2004. Size: 50kb. |
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| City of Ottawa |
Looking east from the Devine Road overpass along Highway 417. Photo
taken: October 22nd, 2004. Size: 45kb. |
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| Municipality of the Nation
County of Prescott and Russel |
Signage 1km in advance of the Highway 138 interchange. Notice that the
northern continuation of Highway 138 (known as Prescott & Russell Road 8) is
not indicated on the eastbound signage for this interchange.
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| Municipality of the Nation
County of Prescott and Russel |
Signage at the eastbound exit for Highway 138. Click here for Highway
138 images. (Coming Soon!) Photo size: 60kb. |
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| Township of North Glengarry
County of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry |
Signage 1km in advance of the Highway 34
interchange. Currently Highway 34 ends
at Highway 417. Before 1998, Highway 34
continued southerly, roughly parallel to the Quebec boundary southerly to
Highway 401 at Lancaster.
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| Township of East Hawksbury
County of Prescott and Russell |
2km advanced signage for the easternmost interchange along Highway 417 in
Ontario. This interchange is particularly unique as it straddles the
Ontario-Quebec Border. The overpass is located in Ontario, while the
ramps are located exclusively in Qebec.
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| Pointe-Fortune MRC
de Vaudreuil-Soulanges
Province of Quebec |
Driving east through the PQ Route 342 interchange. Notice (since this
exit signage is located in Quebec) that Prescott & Russell Road 14 is not
indicated on this signage.
Click here to continue easterly along the Trans-Canada Highway via Autoroute
40
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The Trans-Canada Highway continues east in Quebec
via
Autoroute 40. |
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