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It’s better than watching paint dry.
The rapid bridge replacement project on Highway 417 at the Preston Street bridge begins at 8 p.m. Thursday, and you can watch the work happen, live.
Tune in here, Thursday evening:
https://www.youtube.com/live/5x41yc0rl8o?si=XOxlrBp0iKU9sgjY
Detours will be in place starting at 7 p.m. Thursday. 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, Booth Street will 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.
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