Terry Fox Drive (Ottawa)

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Terry Fox Drive (Ottawa Road #61) is a major arterial road in Ottawa, Ontario and named for the late Canadian humanitarian activist and athlete Terry Fox. Located in the suburb of Kanata in the city's west end, the road is currently the continuation of Kanata Avenue, a collector travelling through the neighborhood of Kanata Lakes. It heads south past Kanata Centrum, crosses Highway 417 and passes Glen Cairn. It ends at Eagleson Road where it links up with Hope Side Road. Another section of Terry Fox Drive located in Morgan's Grant in Kanata's north end, exists as the extension of a rustic collector route, Goulbourn Forced Road, and ends at the Kanata North Business Park where it becomes Herzberg Road heading south back towards March Road and Carling Avenue.

[edit] Features

Initially a minor road, Terry Fox Drive became a more important and busier road due to growing communities in Kanata and neighboring Stittsville. The addition of the past decade of two new key sites, the Kanata Centrum shopping complex and Scotiabank Place (which began as the Palladium in 1996 and was later known as the Corel Centre). The Centrum complex contains several big box stores and services including Loblaws, Wal-Mart, Future Shop, Best Buy, Sportchek, Fitness Depot, Sleep Country, Chapters, Pier 1 Imports, Color Your World, Jacob Connexion, Danier, GNC, Classy's, the Shoe Company, Home Outfitters, Payless Shoes, Golf Town and PetSmart as well as an AMC movie theater and restaurants including Kelsey's, Boston Pizza, and Jack Astor's. In addition to the Centrum there is a Canadian Tire, a Home Depot and a Holiday Inn resort located nearby. OC Transpo's Terry Fox Station and Park and ride, opened in 2004 is also located near the Centrum.

Terry Fox Drive is also the location of the City Hall of the former city of Kanata.

[edit] Future expansion projects

There have been several expansion and widening projects that occurred over the past years and more are planned in the upcoming years. Mostly as a two-lane road between Highway 417 and Hazeldean Road, this section was later widened to four lanes. From 2000 to 2006 it was gradually extended to the south where it crosses Fernbank Road and now continues on to Eagleson Road. It has also been extended to the north towards Kanata Avenue. There are future plans to connect the eastern segment of Terry Fox (at March Rd.) to the main segment.^[1]

[edit] Speed limits

Speed limit through most of the southern section of Terry Fox is 70 km/h, however for a small portion south of Glen Cairn, the speed limit is 80 km/h, while near Hazeldean Road it is 60 km/h. The Terry Fox section in Morgan's Grant and the Kanata Business Park has a speed limit of 50 km/h.

[edit] Neighbourhoods

• Morgan's Grant (northern and eastern segment)
• Kanata Lakes
• Katimavik
• Glen Cairn
• Soho West
• Fernbank (future development)
• Bridlewood

[edit] See also

• Terry Fox Station

[edit] References