Albion Road (Ottawa)

Albion Road (Ottawa Road #25) is an important north-south road in the southern part of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The street begins in the north as Albion Road North, at Walkley Road.

It runs only a short distance as a local road before being interrupted by the railway tracks and the Walkley O-Train garage servicing the Trillium Line. South of the rail lines Albion Road proper begins. At first a small street running through a residential area, it becomes briefly an arterial road at Hunt Club Road and Bank Street before passing through the Blossom Park Community.

South of Lester, it continues to run south, into the rural areas of Ottawa, as a minor arterial road, and it also forms the eastern boundary of Macdonald-Cartier International Airport. Albion Road continues through the rural part of Ottawa, ending at Mitch Owens Road, just northwest of Greely, Ontario.

In December 2002, City Council voted in favour of prohibiting motorists going northbound or southbound on Albion to continue past the intersection of Lester Road with the exception of emergency vehicles, bicycles and OC Transpo buses, although only a rush-hour route travels through that intersection. Residents of Blossom Park between Lester and Bank Street cited safety concerns as Albion was a residential artery and that speeding and heavy traffic became issues in the neighbourhood.

Motorists have been detoured to Bank Street to the east or the Airport Parkway to the west via Lester. Residents from the rural south later expressed concern about the detour citing also safety reasons along Lester as many motorists were doing U-turns to skip the detours. Motorists also cited the detour as an inconvenience to access other areas of the city. A bypass around the community at Albion Road has been proposed that would realign Albion from Lester to Hunt Club Road just west of the Airport Parkway but the project was not planned in the city's Transportation Master Plan other than widening Albion south of Lester which itself was planned to be widened to the Airport Parkway which itself is proposed to be widened to Heron Road.

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