King's Highway 417 - Images

Photos shown in this table are arranged from West to East:

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Photos taken from driver's perspective appear offset from centre-line Photos:        

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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.


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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.

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.  Size: 50kb.

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.
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.

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.
City of Ottawa Looking west from the Highway 44 (now Ottawa Road 49) overpass near Carp.

Photo taken: October 23rd, 2004.  Size: 55kb.

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.

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.

City of Ottawa Looking towards Ottawa from the McGee Sideroad overpass.

Photo taken: October 23rd, 2004.  Size: 50kb.

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.

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.
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.

Photo taken: October 23rd, 2004.  Size: 45kb.

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.
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.

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

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.

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.

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.
City of Ottawa Looking east towards Montreal from the Boundary Road overpass.

Photo taken: October 22nd, 2004.  Size: 50kb.

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.

City of Ottawa Looking east from the Devine Road overpass along Highway 417.

Photo taken: October 22nd, 2004.  Size: 45kb.

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!)

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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
Photo taken: July 5th, 2005.  Size: 40kb.
The Trans-Canada Highway continues east in Quebec via Autoroute 40.

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