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The Trans-Canada Highway continues west through the
Ottawa Valley along
Highway 17. Click
here
for Highway 17 Images. |
| 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.
Size: 60kb. |
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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.
Size: 60kb. |
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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.
Size: 60kb. |
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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,
2004. Size: 70kb. |
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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.
Click
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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taken: October 23rd, 2004. Size: 45kb. |
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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: October 22nd, 2004. Size:
40kb. |
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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: October
22nd, 2004. Size: 60kb.
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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:
40kb. |
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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:
35kb |
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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. |
Low-res
High-res |
| 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. |
Low-res
High-res |
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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 417 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. |
Low-res
High-res |
| 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. |
Low-res
High-res |
| 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.
Photo size: 40kb. |
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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.
Photo size: 60kb. |
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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.
Photo size: 65kb. |
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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
Photo taken: July 5th, 2005. Size: 40kb. |
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The Trans-Canada Highway continues east in Quebec
via
Autoroute 40. |
