Wellington Street West is a 2.3 km road and shopping area west of downtown

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. This road was once connected to - and is often confused with - the prominent Wellington Street in downtown Ottawa. But the two Wellingtons were severed in the 1960s with the expropriation of LeBreton Flats and the demolition of the viaduct that connected them over the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks. A small remnant of the old Wellington alignment remains between Bayview Road and the small park, Somerset Square. But the modern Wellington Street West roadway is now connected with Somerset Street West, which becomes Wellington West at Garland Avenue. The section from Somerset Street West to Holland Avenue traverses the

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neighbourhood, while the section from Holland Avenue to

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forms the backbone of the Wellington Village) community. At Island Park Drive, the roadway changes its name again to Richmond Road. The entire Wellington Street West corridor and the surrounding shopping district contain more than 500 individual businesses and restaurants. Since 2008, these have been represented by the Wellington West Business Improvement Area.http://www.wellingtonwest.ca/latest-news/celebrating-10-years-of-wellington-west.htm {{Dead link, date=February 2022

Major intersections

The following is a list of major intersections along Wellington Street West, listed from east to west: * Bayview Road * Somerset Street West * Fairmont Avenue * Melrose Avenue * Carruthers Avenue * Parkdale Avenue * Holland Avenue * Harmer Avenue North * Clarendon Avenue * Western Avenue *

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Roads in Ottawa