Site visitors impacts for Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend

Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend is operating via downtown this weekend, from Saturday, May 23 to Sunday, May 24.

The operating occasion begins and ends at Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West, and includes intermittent lane reductions and closures on Saturday, from as early as 11 am till 9 pm, and on Sunday, from as early as 5 am till 2 pm.

Major roads impacted at numerous occasions by the occasion embrace:

• Laurier Avenue
• Elgin Street
• Queen Street
• O’Connor Street
• Bank Street
• Wellington Street
• Kichi Zībī Mīkan
• Booth Street
• Chaudière Bridge
• Alexandra Bridge
• Sussex Drive
• Sir George-Étienne Cartier Parkway
• Rideau Street
• Colonel By Drive
• Pretoria Bridge
• Queen Elizabeth Driveway

A full record of the lane reductions, street closures and occasions are situated on the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend web site.

For updates on building and roadwork exercise throughout Ottawa or for details about site visitors and journey planning, go to the City’s site visitors map or comply with the City’s traffic account on X.

OC Transpo

O-Train Lines 1 and a pair of will begin at 5 am on Sunday, May 24 to make it simpler for Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend runners, volunteers and spectators to get to the downtown core upfront of the marathon. Customers are inspired to plan their journey upfront by utilizing the Travel Planner. 

Some OC Transpo bus providers will probably be affected by street closures and occasion actions: 

• OC Transpo routes 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 18, 19, 20, 56, 85 and night time service routes N39, N45, N57, N61, N75, and N105 will probably be affected.
• Saturday, May 23, detours will begin as early as 10:30 am and run till 9:30 pm.
• Sunday, May 24, detours will begin as early as 4:30 am and run till 3 pm, and there will probably be no OC Transpo service to Gatineau from 5:45 am till 12 pm.
• Para Transpo journey occasions could also be affected by deliberate street closures.

Full particulars of OC Transpo service impacts could be discovered on the OC Transpo alerts page. You may join with OC Transpo via Facebook, X, Bluesky and Instagram.