ON 417 East - Ottawa - Ontario - Canada - 4K Highway Drive

[@811JKLM]

I never had the privilege of driving to Ottawa. The closest I have been to Ottawa? Pembroke, ON. I had a cousin who married a Canadian girl there.Thank you for the drive through, sir! It looks like a nice city. I would like to visit it someday soon.

[@thevultrantransituniverse1487]

Ottawa is a beautiful city!

[@brianmiddleton2956]

Anyone know what those things attached to the light poles in the median are supposed to do? They seem decorative resembling the Canadian Maple Leaf.

[@NebulonRanger]

If the entirety of 417's predecessor route (ON 17) were to be upgraded to a freeway all the way to the Manitoba border, it alone would be longer than many Interstates. The combined length of 17 and 417 is almost 2000 km!

[@tyfrank3427]

I think it should be upgraded at least to a 4 lane divided highway the whole way, and the highway number should become 1 to match most of the rest of the TCH.

[@bigdripbobz1072]

It's crazy to see that if Ontario were to as a whole be in the States, Toronto would likely be in the midwest region (due to the landscape similarities), while just close by to Kingston/Ottawa areas would fall under the tree-filled Northeast region of the US. Whereas in Canadian geography, the entire belt of this southern Ontario portion falls into one generalized region.

[@NebulonRanger]

CityNerd actually joked about the midwest thread in one of his videos; he called Toronto "Sideways Chicago" which, yeah, is at least a bit accurate in my experience

[@ToBeDetermined56789]

Interesting that the exit numbers on 417 decrease as you drive east, which is counter to convention.

[@rongoesCDN]

This is due to the fact that they don't plan on having at as a full freeway west of Pembroke. They are not even rigging a by-pass around Sault-Ste-Marie even though the eastern approach to the city on the Trans-Canada is four lane expressway.

[@HAA0603]

10:22 having lived in Ottawa my whole life this isn't even 0.000001% of the bad drivers