Cedarview Road (Ottawa)
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Cedarview Road is a north-south road
Road
A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places, which typically has been paved or otherwise improved to allow travel by some conveyance, including a horse, cart, or motor vehicle. Roads consist of one, or sometimes two, roadways each with one or more lanes and also any...

 in Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada
Canada
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. It runs between Bells Corners
Bells Corners, Ontario
Bells Corners is a suburban community in the city of Ottawa, Canada. As of the Canada 2006 Census, it had a population of 9,799.-History:...

 and Barrhaven. Formerly a major arterial road for Barrhaven residents, its use declined after the opening of Highway 416
Highway 416 (Ontario)
King's Highway 416, commonly referred to as Highway 416 and as the Veterans Memorial Highway, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario which connects Highway 417 in Ottawa with Highway 401 between Brockville and Cornwall...

 in 1999.

Cedarview Road begins in the north at Baseline Road
Baseline Road (Ottawa)
Baseline Road is a road in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.Baseline runs from Richmond Road east in a straight line until it ends at the Heron Road Bridge over the Rideau River and Rideau Canal when it becomes Heron Road. Before the 2001 City of Ottawa amalgamation, Baseline formed the border of the city...

, near the Queensway-Carleton Hospital
Queensway-Carleton Hospital
Queensway-Carleton Hospital, opened in 1976 by William Davis, is a 240 bed facility in Ottawa's west end, and serves a population of over 400,000...

. Prior to the opening of Highway 416, it ran south, passing Bell High School
Bell High School (Ottawa)
Bell High School is a high school located in Bells Corners of Ottawa, Canada. Established in 1962 by the Carleton Board of Education as a public high school, it currently serves as one of the only two facilities with the prestigious OCDSB Gifted Program...

. It has since been re-aligned eastward to make room for a corridor for the highway; the original portion of Cedarview Road that accesses the school has been renamed Cassidy Road.

Continuing southward, Cedarview Road intersects with West Hunt Club Road
Hunt Club Road (Ottawa)
Hunt Club Road also known as Ottawa Road #32, is a major east-west route in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Hunt Club originally ran from Albion Road to Riverside Drive, but was extended east to Hawthorne Road in the late 1980s. The section between Bank Street and Riverside Drive, originally only one lane...

, formerly Knoxdale Road. Also at this intersection is an interchange
Interchange (road)
In the field of road transport, an interchange is a road junction that typically uses grade separation, and one or more ramps, to permit traffic on at least one highway to pass through the junction without directly crossing any other traffic stream. It differs from a standard intersection, at which...

 with Highway 416. Just south of the intersection is a sharp S-curve following the curve of Highway 416, which has been considered dangerous and has resulted in some car accidents. The speed limit is reduced to 60 km/h as the road passes by the communities of Cedarhill Estates and Orchard Estates.

South of its intersection with Fallowfield Road
Fallowfield Road (Ottawa)
Fallowfield Road , is a major road in southwestern Ottawa. It is a common commuting road for Barrhaven and provides a route to western communities such as Fallowfield village and Munster Hamlet. These communities are served by OC Transpo....

, Cedarview Road is a local street in Barrhaven. Before Highway 416 was constructed, Cedarview ran south to Bankfield Road
Bankfield Road (Ottawa)
Bankfield Road is the name of a long rural road in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It begins at Highway 416 in the west, and runs east to Rideau Valley Drive in the suburb of Manotick, Ontario. The interchange with Highway 416 is just west of Prince of Wales Drive and south of the Barrhaven...

; currently it passes by Cedarview Middle School
Cedarview Middle School
Cedarview Middle School is a dual-track English/French immersion middle school in Barrhaven, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. As of 2010, it has 630 students, 58% in English and 42% in French immersion. Cedarview was opened in 1994. It is the...

 and Jockvale Road
Jockvale Road (Ottawa)
Jockvale Road is a road in Ottawa, Ontario that bisects the older neighbourhoods of Barrhaven. It also serves the new communities south of Barrhaven and is a major road for reaching Manotick.Jockvale Road begins in northwestern Barrhaven at Cedarview Road...

 before reaching a dead-end at CN Rail tracks. South of the railroad tracks, Cedarview Road resumes as a rural road between Strandherd Drive
Strandherd Drive (Ottawa)
Strandherd Drive is a major road serving the community of Barrhaven in southwest Ottawa.Up until the mid-1990s, Strandherd Drive was an east-west coursing road extending from Moodie Drive to Woodroffe Avenue...

 and Brophy Road
Bankfield Road (Ottawa)
Bankfield Road is the name of a long rural road in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It begins at Highway 416 in the west, and runs east to Rideau Valley Drive in the suburb of Manotick, Ontario. The interchange with Highway 416 is just west of Prince of Wales Drive and south of the Barrhaven...

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