Prince of Wales Drive ( Ottawa Road #73) is a

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serving

Ottawa, Ontario Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...

, named after the eponymous road in Battersea,

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, U.K. The northern section is a low-speed street running along the west bank of the Rideau River, while southern portions of the road were formerly Highway 16 (downgraded after the construction of Highway 416). Prince of Wales Drive is the continuation of

Queen Elizabeth Driveway Queen Elizabeth Driveway is a scenic parkway in Ottawa, Canada, that runs along the western edge of the Rideau Canal. It runs from Laurier Avenue in the north to Dow's Lake where it turns into Prince of Wales Drive. It is administered and owned by ...

beyond Preston Street. It runs around

Dow's Lake Dow's Lake in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada is a small man-made lake on the Rideau Canal, situated two kilometres north of Hog's Back Falls in the middle of Ottawa. It is at the south end of Preston Street, just south of Carling Avenue, and just to th ...

and through the Central Experimental Farm before reaching a roundabout. The speed limit is down to

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, at which point it increases to . There is a major intersection with

Hunt Club Road Hunt Club Road, also known as Ottawa Road 32, is a major east–west route in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It originally ran from a dead end east of Bank Street to the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club; later, there were many extensions due to the 1970s ho ...

, where several commuters from south

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use the bridge to cross the Rideau River. Prince of Wales Drive follows the Rideau River past

Barrhaven Barrhaven is a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located about southwest of the city's downtown core. Prior to amalgamation with Ottawa in 2001, Barrhaven was part of the City of Nepean. Its population as of the Canada 2021 Census was ...

and

Manotick Manotick ( ) is a community in Rideau-Jock Ward in the rural south part of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is a suburb of the city, located on the Rideau River, immediately south of the suburbs Barrhaven and Riverside South, about from ...

. South of the intersection with Jockvale Road, the road diverts from the river and heads in a southwesterly direction toward

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, where it terminates at

Fourth Line Road Fourth Line Road ( Ottawa Road #5) is a designated arterial road in the rural portion of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The street follows one of the meridian lines first laid out when Carleton County was surveyed. It begins southeast of Richmond, Ontari ...

. Prior to the construction of Highway 416, the stretch of

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that included Prince of Wales continued south to the Canada–US border into

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In May 2007, the City approved the start of an environmental assessment study in regards of the future widening of the road from Fisher Avenue to Woodroffe Avenue from two to four lanes in accommodation to future expansion in Barrhaven, Manotick and Riverside Southbr>

Major Intersections

* Preston Street (Ottawa) , Preston Street * Baseline Road & Heron Road * Meadowlands Drive & Hog's Back Road * Hunt Club Road * Fallowfield Road * Merivale Road * Strandherd Drive * Longfields Drive * Bankfield Road * 4th Line Road

External links

City of Ottawa page on future widening of Prince of Wales Drive

{{Ottawa Roads Roads in Ottawa