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34-543: Bank Street made up much of Highway 31 before it was downloaded in 1998 (all of it south of Heron Road ). Currently it is also known as Ottawa Road #31 . Between Wellington Street and Gladstone Avenue in downtown, Bank Street is a shopping and business development district officially known as the "Bank Street Promenade" and the street is lined with common signage affixed to streetlights and street-level advertising billboards showing this distinction. The area between Somerset Street West and Gladstone Avenue (within

68-471: A new routing through Ottawa for the first time, with all four concurrent highways turning east onto Rideau Canal Drive off Bank Street on the north side of the Rideau Canal. The 1956 edition of the map continues to show Highway   31 also following Bank Street to Wellington Street in addition to the portion along Rideau Canal Drive. In the 1960 edition, both routes were removed and Highway   31

102-463: A process referred to as downloading. Due to its proximity to Highway   16, which was in the process of being upgraded to Highway 416 , the entirety of Highway   31 was downloaded in 1997 and 1998. On April   1, 1997, 10.9 kilometres (6.8 mi) of the route, from Regional Road   8 ( Mitch Owens Road ) to the Ottawa city limits south of Regional Road   32 ( Hunt Club Road ),

136-578: Is also home to St. Patrick's Intermediate High School and Herongate Mall . Heron Road starts on the Heron Road Bridge which crosses the Rideau River , Rideau Canal , and part of Vincent Massey Park . From there, most of Heron Road is a four- to six-lane divided principal arterial, and often becomes a speed trap; the speed limit is 60 km/h (37 mph) west of Bank Street and 50 km/h (31 mph) east of Bank Street despite

170-549: The CP Rail Winchester subdivision along the way. To the west of the village, the two routes parted ways, and Highway   31 continued north. It passed through the community of Cloverdale, then swerved west to avoid the community of Harmony before entering what was then known as the Regional Municipality of Ottawa–Carleton at Marionville Road. Within the former Osgoode Township the highway bisected

204-781: The Metcalfe Road , was a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario . The 76.93-kilometre (47.80 mi) route connected Highway 2 in Morrisburg with the Chaudière Bridge at the Ontario– Quebec boundary in downtown Ottawa . Established in 1927, Highway   31 originally extended from Highway   2 north to the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry – Carleton county line. It

238-882: The Queensway to Holmwood Avenue. Bank Street is home to Lansdowne Park where the Ottawa 67's and Ottawa RedBlacks play. Even further south, after the road passes over the Rideau Canal on the Bank Street Bridge , Bank Street is home to the Billings Bridge Plaza and eventually, the South Keys Shopping Centre . Bank Street north of Billings Bridge is an historic urban arterial road, often with many more pedestrians than vehicular traffic and significant parking issues, hence

272-737: The Rideau River . Highway   31 followed Bronson Avenue, meeting an interchange with Highway   417 (the Queensway), and turning southwest onto Albert Street. It then turned north onto Booth Street and ended at the Ontario–Quebec boundary on the Chaudière Bridge over the Ottawa River, where it continued as Eddy Street into Hull . Highway   31 was first established as a provincial highway on July   2, 1927, when 32.6 kilometres (20.3 mi) of roads were assumed by

306-639: The 1997 Provincial Highways Distance Table .   Heron Road (Ottawa) Heron Road ( Ottawa Road #16 ) is a major road in Ottawa , Ontario , Canada. It runs from Walkley Road at an angle to the Rideau River , where it turns into Baseline Road . Heron is home to the Sir Leonard Tilley Building , the Canada Post headquarters, and the Edward Drake Building (at its junction with Riverside Drive ). It

340-534: The 19th century, whereas the bank was founded in 1934. It's believed that the road was named this because it originally went from the "bank" of the Ottawa River at its northern end to that of the Rideau River to the south. However, the road was originally called Esther Street in honour of Colonel By 's wife. Bank Street officially ends at Wellington Street and the portion of the street running closest to

374-610: The Bank Street Promenade) is considered the centre of Ottawa's burgeoning gay village , characterized by a small concentration of businesses targeted to Ottawa's LGBT community. In 2011, the city officially unveiled signs identifying the neighbourhood as Ottawa's gay village, at the intersections of Somerset, James and Nepean Streets with Bank Street. Travelling south, there exists a shopping district in The Glebe running exclusively along Bank Street from approximately

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408-646: The Department of Public Highways within the townships of Williamsburgh , Winchester and Mountain . The highway inexplicably ended at the Dundas – Carleton county boundary south of Vernon for the next decade. On July   29, 1936, the highway was extended 35.4 kilometres (22.0 mi) into Ottawa when the Metcalfe Road through Osgoode and Gloucester townships in Carleton County was assumed by

442-524: The Ministry of Transportation noted no changes in road length (78 km / 48.8 mi). This is presumed to be a connecting link between Highway 31 and The Queensway ( Highway 417 ), but these scenic routes /connecting links were all decommissioned by 1960. The road was also re-aligned along the Winchester Bypass, when it was completed and opened in 1974, but no other changes were made to

476-460: The Quebec boundary, but it is shown as the northern terminus in the 1989 Highways Distance Tables. As part of a series of budget cuts initiated by premier Mike Harris under his Common Sense Revolution platform in 1995, numerous highways deemed to no longer be of significance to the provincial network were decommissioned and responsibility for the routes transferred to a lower level of government,

510-592: The actual riverbank is federal Crown land for the Parliamentary Precinct of the Parliament of Canada . South of the Rideau River the road was previously named "Prescott Road". Highway 31 was formed in 1927, and started at the junction of Highway 2 in Morrisburg, Ontario . It travelled north through the town of Winchester , and eventually into Ottawa. The road was paved in stages, but was fully paved by 1936. The road's designation of Highway 31

544-424: The bypass in 1972. Highway   31 and Highway   43 were rerouted on to the Winchester Bypass when it was opened on July   30, 1974. When Highway   31 was extended to Ottawa in 1937, provincial jurisdiction ended at Billings Bridge, where Bank Street crossed the Rideau River and entered the city limits. The portion with Ottawa, which was maintained and signed under a Connecting Link agreement with

578-590: The city of Ottawa at Regional Road   32 ( Hunt Club Road ). Within Ottawa, Highway   31 continued as a Connecting Link , following Bank Street through the South Keys neighbourhood and crossing CN 's Walkely Line into the Heron Gate neighbourhood. It turned west onto Regional Road   16 ( Heron Road ). It turned north onto the Airport Parkway , which becomes Bronson Avenue upon crossing

612-546: The community of Glen Becker, Williamsburg and The Sixth as it crosses the municipality of South Dundas . The route then enters the municipality of North Dundas at Winchester Springs, near which it crosses several creeks and irrigation drains. It passes through the community of Cass Bridge, providing access to the conservation area of the same name, before encountering the eastern leg of former Highway   43. Highway   31 and Highway   43 travelled concurrently as they bypassed southwest of Winchester, crossing over

646-429: The community of Vernon. Recently, just south of Leitrim Road, Bank Street gives access to a developing neighborhood called Findlay Creek that will become quite significant in the long term, and it will also provide access (after secondary roads are extended) to the community of Riverside South . Bank Street also serves in some contexts as an unofficial division between "eastern" and "western" Ottawa. For example, prior to

680-588: The flooding, with the new alignment opening to traffic in May 1958. As a result, Highway   31 was truncated by approximately 800 metres (2,600 ft). Originally, Highway   31 entered into Winchester along St. Lawrence Street before turning west onto Main Street. As early as 1965, proposals for bypassing the village were raised. After lengthy delays over whether or not to cross a Canadian Pacific Railway line at-grade , among other issues, construction began on

714-401: The flow is generally quite slow. South of Billings Bridge to Leitrim Road , the street turns into a more modern four-lane (or five-lane) urban arterial, which flows much better despite the 50 km/h (30 mph) speed limit on the northern half and 60 km/h (about 40 mph) from South Keys southward. South of Leitrim it is a rural two-lane highway with an 80 km/h speed limit until

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748-509: The provincial government, initially followed Bank Street directly to the foot of Parliament Hill at Wellington Street. It became concurrent with Highways 17/15/16 north of Carling Avenue (renamed Glebe Avenue in 1974 ), and a secondary route of all four highways also followed Rideau Canal Drive (now the Queen Elizabeth Driveway ) between Carling Avenue and Wellington Street via Elgin Street . The 1955 Ontario Road map shows

782-465: The renamed Department of Highways (DHO); it was now 78.0 kilometres (48.5 mi) long. While the Metcalfe Road was already fully paved by the time Highway   31 was established, the portion of the route assumed in 1927 was unpaved in its entirety. Paving of the highway with a concrete surface began in the early 1930s; the first portion, from Winchester north to the Dundas–Carleton county line,

816-422: The road since then, until being fully decommissioned as a provincial highway, in 1998. Portions of Bank Street have undergone major reconstruction each year since 2006. The City of Ottawa held public consultations for a major redevelopment of Bank Street between Wellington Street and the Rideau Canal . Ontario Highway 31 King's Highway 31 , commonly referred to as Highway 31 and historically known as

850-563: The takeover of Maclean-Hunter by Rogers Cable in 1994, the street marked the division between those cable companies' service areas in Ottawa: cable subscribers west of Bank Street were served by Maclean-Hunter, while cable subscribers east of Bank Street were served by Rogers. Contrary to popular belief, the street is not named after the Bank of Canada headquarters at the corner of Bank Street and Wellington Street. The street name dates back to

884-671: The time it was decommissioned in 1997 and 1998, Highway   31 began at Highway   2 in the community of Morrisburg, approximately 0.8 kilometres (0.50 mi) from the shores of the St. Lawrence River. Today, this intersection is now a roundabout . It travelled northerly, passing over the CN Kingston Subdivision next to Morrisburg Station, a former Via Rail stop that was closed in 2021. The route crossed Highway 401 at an interchange (Exit   750) and proceeded to be surrounded by farmland. It travels through

918-577: The village of Vernon and the community of Spring Hill before beginning to meander northeast. It crossed the North Castor River at Greely , then entered the city of Gloucester at Regional Road   8 ( Mitch Owens Road ). Within Gloucester, Highway   31 travelled straight north-northeast through the community of Leitrim before once again meandering northeast. It entered the bedroom community of Blossom Park before crossing into

952-523: Was a 76.93-kilometre (47.80 mi) south–north route that somewhat paralleled Highway 16 between the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers. It travelled in a north–northwest direction across eastern Ontario, servicing the communities of Morrisburg, Williamsburg and Winchester , as well as travelling into downtown Ottawa via Gloucester . Since then, it has been known as Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry (SDG) County Road   31 and Ottawa Road   31. At

986-477: Was always at Highway   2, the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway in the late-1950s resulted in a substantial alteration to the route of the latter. Highway   2 originally followed what is now Lakeshore Drive, which was inundated in July 1958 by the rising waters of the seaway east of Morrisburg. Highway   2 was rerouted along the former CN railway right-of-way (itself moved further inland) prior to

1020-412: Was completed in 1931, a distance of approximately 10.5 kilometres (6.5 mi). Just over 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) of the route, from Morrisburg to Williamsburg, was paved in 1933. This was followed in 1934 with another 7.25 kilometres (4.5 mi) of paving south from Winchester. The final 7.25-kilometre gap north of Williamsburg was paved in 1936. While the southern terminus of Highway   31

1054-623: Was extended from the Dundas-Stormont-Glengary/Russell-Prescott county line into Ottawa later that same year. While maintaining its alignment along Bank Street for its entire history, the road was re-aligned along Canal Drive (now today's Queen Elizabeth Driveway). From here, it became less clear where the northern terminus of the road was located, as Ottawa posted Highway 31 as a scenic route within its limits along Heron Road and Bronson Avenue ( concurrent with Highway 16 ) before terminating in downtown, while

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1088-573: Was extended into Ottawa in 1936, and had several routings through the city over the years. The southern terminus was altered with the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1958, and a bypass of Winchester was opened in 1974. The entire highway was decommissioned in 1997 and 1998, and transferred to lower levels of government. It has since been known as Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry (SDG) County Road   31 outside of Ottawa, and Ottawa Road   31 and several local names within Ottawa, notably Bank Street and Bronson Avenue . Highway   31

1122-524: Was rerouted along Heron Road and Bronson Avenue to end at Highway   17 at Carling Avenue. This was altered in the 1964 edition, as Highway   17 was moved onto the partially-completed Queensway; Highway   31 and 16 now continued from Carling Avenue north to the Bronson Avenue interchange (now Exit   121A). It is unclear when Highway   31 was signed north of the Queensway to

1156-484: Was transferred to the Regional Municipality of Ottawa–Carleton. On January   1, 1998, the remainder of the route was downloaded, including 18.6 kilometres (11.6 mi) to Ottawa–Carleton and 35.7 kilometres (22.2 mi) to the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry. The following table lists the major junctions along Highway   31, as noted by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario in

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