Riverside Drive (Ottawa)

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Mooney's Bay

Riverside Drive (

Queensway, and the road proceeds south to Limebank Road where it continues as River Road until the city limits. North of the Queensway, Riverside continues as Vanier Parkway, which travels through Vanier until Beechwood Avenue.[1] The Vanier Parkway name is linked to the neighbourhood of Vanier, which was named for former Governor General of Canada Georges Vanier
.

Most of the road is a four-lane divided principal arterial, with a speed limit of 60 km/h (37 mph), although the general flow is faster in many sections.

Riverside is home to the

Terry Fox Athletic Facility, and Mooney's Bay Park
.

Riverside originally began at

cul-de-sac at each end. It would later be bifurcated by the Hospital Link Road, and its northern section was renamed Lycée Place, and its southern section renamed Frobisher Lane.[3]

Limebank Road

Limebank Road is an arterial road in Ottawa, which is a southbound continuation of Riverside Drive that starts at River Road, and continues south through Riverside South and to Mitch Owens Rd. It continues southbound through West Greely as Dozois Road.

Major intersections

Macdonald Cartier Airport
on the right

On Vanier Parkway

On Riverside Drive

On River Road

Neighbourhoods

  • Riverview
  • Alta Vista
  • Billings Bridge
  • Uplands/South Keys

River Road

Vanier Parkway

References

  1. ^ City of Ottawa (September 2003). "Transportation Master Plan". Retrieved 2006-11-25. See map 6 Urban Road Network
  2. ^ "14 Streets Re-Named; Two Requests Rejected". Ottawa Citizen. May 18, 1960. p. 3. Retrieved April 24, 2020.
  3. ^ "Street Name and Address Changes | City of Ottawa". ottawa.ca. Archived from the original on 2020-08-05.

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