Baseline Road (
Ottawa Road #16) is a road in
Ottawa
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,
Ontario
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, Canada.
Baseline runs from
Richmond Road (almost directly over
Highway 416) east in a straight line until it ends at the
Heron Road Bridge over the
Rideau River
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and
Rideau Canal
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when it becomes
Heron Road. Before the 2001 City of Ottawa amalgamation, Baseline formed the border of the city of Ottawa and
Nepean. The street is named for its location as the
baseline for
Nepean Township. When Nepean Township was surveyed, Baseline formed the northern boundary of Nepean's six north–south
concessions. Currently, Baseline is a major east–west street, and in the late 1990s it became so busy that
Hunt Club Road had to be extended west of the Rideau River to alleviate pressure.
Points of interest on Baseline include the
Queensway Carleton Hospital, the
Boy Scouts Museum,
Algonquin College
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and the
Central Experimental Farm.
Baseline Road is a four-lane principal arterial road for its entire length, except between Centrepointe Drive and Navaho Drive, where it is a five-lane/six-lane arterial (three eastbound lanes and three westbound lanes – a bus lane is present from Constellation west to Centrepointe in lieu of the third westbound lane). The speed limit is for most of its length except a short section west of Greenbank Road, where it is .
Ramsayville Road in southeast Ottawa used to be called Base Line Road before 2003. The name had to be changed when the former city of Gloucester amalgamated with the city of Ottawa, to avoid confusion.
In the future, Baseline Road will have bus lanes between Navaho Drive and
Prince of Wales Drive to speed up transit service in this stretch (
OC Transpo
OC Transpo is the primary Transit district, public transport agency for the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, operating bus rapid transit, light rail, conventional transit bus, bus routes, and door-to-door paratransit in the nation's capital regi ...
bus route 88) due to consistent heavy traffic.
Major intersections
* (
Richmond Road /
Robertson Road) &
*
Cedarview Road
* Valley Stream Drive & John Sutherland Drive (the latter provides access to
Queensway Carleton Hospital)
* Sandcastle Drive
* Monterey Drive
* Morrison Avenue
* Guthrie Street
* Greenbank Road
* Centrepointe Drive & Cobden Road
* Centrepointe Drive & Highgate Road
*
Woodroffe Avenue
* Navaho Drive
* Clyde Avenue
*
Merivale Road
* Fisher Avenue
*
Prince of Wales Drive (east of Prince of Wales, Baseline Road becomes Heron Road)
External links
Google Maps: Baseline Rd
{{Ottawa Roads
Roads in Ottawa