Friday Morning’s Ottawa Transportation Disaster (Eastbound)

Ottawa is experiencing a traffic perfect storm Friday morning with the closing of Highway 417 at Preston Street for fast-bridge replacement.

This coincides with the closing of Ottawa’s troubled O-Train for two weeks of maintenance plus other major city routes closed or reduced in lanes, all at the same time.

Below are pictures from the storm.

To read the details of this transportation Armageddon, click here and here and here.

Traffic will get worse this evening as the Ottawa Redblacks play at already-congested Lansdowne.

The pictures below are from the city’s traffic cameras.

Good luck.

This is Carling and Kirkwood at around 8 a.m. Friday morning. The time lapse on the city traffic camera shows slow traffic to gridlock.

Ottawa traffic perfect storm at Bronson and Carling around 8 a.m. Friday.

Smooth sailing on Highway 417 near O’Connor this morning if you could only get to it.

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