Prince of Wales Drive

For the road in London, see Prince of Wales Drive, London.

Prince of Wales Drive is the road in the centre of the photo along the Rideau River.

Prince of Wales Drive at Hog's Back Road and Meadowlands Drive

Prince of Wales Drive (Ottawa Road #73) is a road serving Ottawa, Ontario, named after the eponymous road in Battersea, London, 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 Drive beyond Preston Street. It runs around Dow's Lake and through the Central Experimental Farm before reaching a roundabout. The speed limit is 50 km/h (31 mph) down to Fisher Avenue, at which point it increases to 60 km/h (37 mph). There is a major intersection with Hunt Club Road, where several commuters from south Nepean use the bridge to cross the Rideau River.

Prince of Wales Drive follows the Rideau River past Barrhaven and Manotick. South of the intersection with Jockvale Road, the road diverts from the river and heads in a southwesterly direction toward North Gower, where it terminates at 4th Line Road.

Prior to the construction of Highway 416, the stretch of Highway 16 that included Prince of Wales continued south to the Canada–US border into Saint Lawrence County, New York

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 South as well as the future construction of a new Rideau River Bridge at Strandherd Drive.

Major Intersections

External links

Route map: Bing / Google

Roads in Ottawa

Provincial highways	7 416 417

Major arteries	Fourth Line Tenth Line Airport Albion Bank Baseline Blair Bronson Carling Carp Cedarview Conroy Donnelly Dwyer Hill Eagleson Elgin Galetta Side Greenbank Hazeldean Heron Hunt Club Innes King Edward March Merivale Mitch Owens Montreal Moodie Parkdale Prince of Wales Regional Road 174 Richmond Rideau River Riverside Robertson St. Joseph St. Laurent Strandherd Terry Fox Vanier Walkley Wellington Woodroffe

Collectors/Secondary arteries	Albert Alta Vista Bankfield Beechwood Booth Brookfield Gladstone Hawthorne Hog's Back Jockvale Katimavik Kent Laurier Lees Leitrim Main Maitland Meadowlands Metcalfe Nicholas North Gower O'Connor Old Prescott Osgoode Main Pinecrest Preston Russell Slater Smyth Somerset Sparks St. Patrick Sussex Tremblay Trim

Federal arteries	Aviation Colonel By Island Park Sir George-Étienne Cartier Sir John A. Macdonald Queen Elizabeth

Roads in Ontario

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