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Beware, Ottawa drivers. It’s time for another multi-day Queensway closure to accommodate a bridge replacement, this time at Preston Street.
The City of Ottawa has announced plans for detours around closed sections of Highway 417 starting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, with reopening of those sections expected by 6 a.m. next Monday.
Eastbound lanes between Carling Avenue and Metcalfe Street and westbound lanes between Bronson and Parkdale avenues will be impacted.
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An advisory from the city said Highway 417 on-ramps would also be closed eastbound at Maitland, Carling and Parkdale, and westbound at O’Connor, Lyon, Bronson and Rochester.
In addition, the advisory said, Booth Street would be closed northbound from Carling Avenue to Raymond Street from 7:30 p.m. on Thursday until 6 a.m. on Monday “to facilitate the Highway 417 westbound detour.”
The city also cautioned residents to anticipate “significant traffic and transit impacts” on Friday because of the concurrence of the Highway 417 closure, the closure of the western portion of the O-Train LRT system for maintenance and an Ottawa Redblacks Canadian Football League game at Lansdowne Park.
The peak impacts are expected between 3 and 11:30 p.m.,” the notice said.
Detours will be in effect for vehicles forced off Highway 417 by the bridge-replacement closure.
Westbound Detour
- Exit the highway at Metcalfe/Catherine
- Continue westbound on Catherine Street
- Continue onto Raymond Street
- Turn left onto Booth Street
- Turn right onto Carling Avenue
- Take the Highway 417 Carling/Kirkwood westbound on-ramp
Eastbound Detour
- Exit the highway at Carling/Kirkwood
- Continue eastbound on Carling Avenue
- Turn left on Bronson Avenue
- Turn right on Chamberlain Avenue
- Continue onto Isabella Street
- Take the Highway 417 Metcalfe eastbound access ramp
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