Carling Avenue is a major east–west arterial

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in the west end of Ottawa,

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, Canada. It runs from March Road in Kanata to

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. The road is named for

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, founder of Carling Brewery and

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MP and Senator, Postmaster General and Minister of Agriculture.

Road description

At approximately in length, Carling Avenue begins at the fringes of the Glebe neighbourhood and runs in a straight direction west until the Ottawa River where it bends north to go around Crystal Bay and Britannia Bay and ends north of Kanata. It used to begin at O'Connor Street, one block east of Bank Street, but the part east of Bronson was renamed Glebe Avenue on February 7, 1974. It is a four to six-lane principal arterial road for most of its urban length, with a speed limit of . The portion through the

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and into Kanata is generally a two-lane rural highway (although widening is planned, which would also remove a substandard underpass in the 3700 block about midway between March Road and Moodie Drive), with a speed limit of . In December 2005 one lane in each direction between Booth Street and Cambridge South just before Bronson was converted to a

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. This very short (roughly 150 m) bus-only section speeds up bus traffic through the Carling/Bronson intersection during rush-hour. Carling avenue is roughly 19km long.

Features

Notable features located along Carling Avenue from west to east are

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, the

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, the Communications Research Centre, Smithvale Stables, Andrew Haydon Park, the

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, Carlingwood Mall, Fairlawn Plaza, Westgate Mall, the

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, Old Dominion Observatory, and

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condo tower. It also runs along the northern boundaries of the Central Experimental Farm and Commissioners Park.

Others

Carling is now known as Ottawa Road #38 but used to be Highway 17B east of Richmond Road until the Ontario government downloaded the highway to the local government. Until the 1970s, the western part of Carling was also part of Highway 17. From 2004 to 2007, Carling Avenue was named one of Ontario's worst 20 roads in a

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survey, citing frequent bumps and potholes. One of the first

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monitoring stations used for Project Magnet was located on Carling Avenue.

OC Transpo service

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of the O-Train

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, is located near the intersection of Carling Avenue and Preston Street.

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bus routes also serve the station.

Major intersections

The addresses change erratically on Carling; they are not consistent from point to point and rise rapidly in the eastern part, then slow down to a very slow rise west of Bayshore. Major intersections (from west to east, approximate address point): *March Road (4100) *Moodie Drive (3500) * Holly Acres Road, an approach to Highway 417 (3200) * Bayshore Drive (3100) *Pinecrest Road (2800) * Richmond Road (2700) *

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(2500) *

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(2200) *

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(1800) * Queensway/ Kirkwood Avenue (1500) *

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(1300) *

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/ NCC Scenic Driveway (1100) * Parkdale Avenue (1000) * Preston Street (800) *Booth Street (600) *

(300)

Neighbourhoods

Neighbourhoods along its length are: * Crystal Beach * Bayshore * Michelle Heights *

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* Pinewood * Lincoln Heights * Carlingwood *

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* Hampton Park *

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* Glebe *

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References

External links

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Google Maps: Carling Avenue
{{Ottawa Roads Roads in Ottawa Former segments of the Trans-Canada Highway