It's Race Weekend and that means road closures

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It’s going to be a busy couple of days in Ottawa with thousands of runners expected to descend on the nation’s capital for the 2015 annual Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend on Saturday and Sunday.

With the annual event comes traffic headaches in the form of road closures. Here’s what you need to know about streets that will be impassable this weekend:

All-weekend closures:

• Queen Elizabeth Driveway between Laurier Avenue and Somerset Street;

• Friday to 6 p.m. Sunday, Laurier Avenue east off-ramp and controlled exit and access to National Arts Centre.

Saturday:

• Laurier Avenue will be closed between Metcalfe Street and Nicholas street from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.
• Elgin Street will be closed between Cooper Street and Wellington Street from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
• Elgin Street will be closed Cooper Street and Frank Street from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
• Elgin Street will be closed between Catherine Street and Queen Elizabeth Drive from 3:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.
• Lisgar Street will be closed between Cartier Street and Elgin Street from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• Elgin Street will be closed between Lisgar Street and Catherine Street from 6:15 p.m. to 7 p.m.
• Frank Street will be closed between Elgin Street and Queen Elizabeth Drive from 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.,
• Queen Street will be closed between Elgin Street and O’Connor Street from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• O’Connor Street will be closed between Wellington Street and Albert Street from 3:30 p.m. to 4:35 p.m.,
• Wellington Street will be closed Bank Street and Colonel By Drive eastbound from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
• Lakeside Avenue will be closed from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• Bronson Avenue will be closed between Lakeside Avenue and Colonel By Drive from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• Colonel By Drive will be closed Rideau Street and Main Street from 3 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
• Colonel By Drive will be closed between Main Street and Bronson Avenue from 3 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
• The Pretoria Bridge will be closed from 3:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.
• Argyle Avenue will be closed between Elgin Street and Queen Elizabeth Drive from 6:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.
• Queen Elizabeth Drive will be closed between Somerset Street and Elgin Street from 2 p.m. to 9 p, m.
• Queen Elizabeth Drive will be closed between Elgin Street and Preston Street from 3 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Sunday

• Laurier Avenue will be closed between Elgin Street and Metcalfe Street from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m.
• Laurier Avenue will be closed between Nicholas Street and Elgin Street from 5 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Queen Elizabeth Drive will be closed between Preston Street and Elgin Street from 6 p.m. to 10:45 a.m.
• Queen Elizabeth Drive will be closed between Lawrence Frieman Lane and Laurier Avenue from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Queen Elizabeth Drive will be closed between Elgin Street and Somerset Street W. from 6 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
• Elgin Street will be closed between Cooper Street and Slater Street from 5 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
• Elgin Street will be closed between Cooper Street and Catherine Street from 8:45 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.
• Lisgar Street will be closed between Cartier Street and Elgin Street from 6 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
• Cooper Street will be closed between Cartier Street and Somerset Street West from 7:45 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
• The Driveway will be closed between Cooper Street and Somerset Street West from 7:45 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
• Wellington Street eastbound will be closed between Elgin Street and Colonel By Drive from 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Rideau Street westbound will be closed between Sussex Drive and Mackenzie Street from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Preston Street will be closed between Queen Elizabeth Drive and Carling Avenue from 6:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. (in the northbound lanes)
• Carling Avenue westbound will be closed between Preston Street and Sherwood Avenue from 6:45 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• Carling Avenue eastbound will be closed at Preston Street from 6:45 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• Sherwood Drive will be closed between Carling Avenue and Fairmont Avenue from 6:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
• Fairmont Avenue will be closed between Sherwood Avenue and Wellington Street from 6:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
• Wellington Street will be closed between Fairmont Avenue and Island Park Drive from 6:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
• Richmond Road will be closed between Island Park Drive and Athlone Avenue from 6:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
• Athlone Avenue will be closed between Richmond Street and Scott Avenue from 6:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
• Sir Frederic Banting Driveway and Colombine Driveway will be closed between 6:30 a.m. and 12 p.m.
• Scott Street eastbound between Churchill Avenue and Island Park Drive will be closed from 6:15 a.m. to 10 a.m.
• Scott Street westbound will be closed between Island Park Drive and Parkdale Avenue from 6:15 a.m. to 12 p.m.
• Island Park Drive will be closed between Scott Street and Richmond Road from 8:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
• Sir John A Macdonald Parkway/Wellington Avenue will be closed between Booth Street and Island Park Drive from 6:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
• Booth Street will be closed between Wellington Street and Eddy Street from 6:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
• Rue Eddy will be closed between Booth Street and Wright Street from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Alexandre Taché Boulevard will be closed between Rue Eddy and Rue Montcalm from 7 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
• Alexandre Taché Boulevard will be closed between Rue Montcalm and Scott Street from 7 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
• Scott Street will be closed between Alexandre Taché Boulevard and Graham Avenue from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• Lac des Fees Promenade will be closed between Graham Avenue and St. Jean Bosco from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• Jean Bosco will be closed between Lac des Fees Promenade and Lois Avenue between 7 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.
• Lois Avenue will be closed between St. Jean Bosco and Rue Montcalm from 7 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
• Rue Montcalm will be closed between St. Joseph Boulevard and Rue Papineau from 7 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (southbound lanes only)
• Rue Montcalm will be closed between Rue Papineau and Wellington Avenue from 7 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
• Rue Montcalm will be closed between Wellington Avenue and Taché Boulevard from 7 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
• Rue Wellington will be closed between Rue Montcalm and Rue Laval from 7 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
• Rue Laval will be closed between Promenade du Portage and Wellington Street from 7 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
• Promenade du Portage will be closed between Rue Laval and Hotel de Ville from 7 a.m. and 12:45 p.m.
• Hotel de Ville between will be closed between Promenade du Portage and Laurier Avenue from 7 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.
• Laurier Avenue will be closed between Hotel de Ville and Boulevard des Allumettieres from 7 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
• Sussex Drive will be closed between York Street and the Rockcliffe Parkway from 6 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
• Sussex Drive will be closed between York Street and Rideau Street from 7 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.
• MacKenzie Avenue will be closed between St. Patrick Street and Rideau Street from 7 a.m. 1:30 p.m.
• George Etienne Cartier Parkway will be closed between Princess Street and the Aviation Parkway from 6:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
• Princess Avenue will be closed between Rockcliffe Parkway and Lisgar Road from 6:45 a.m.to 1:30 p.m.
• Lisgar Road will be closed between Buena Vista Road and the Rockcliffe Parkway from 6:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
• Birch Street will be closed between Sandridge Road and Hemlock Road from 6:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
• Hemlock Road westbound will be closed between Birch Road and Beechwood Avenue from 6:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Beechwood Avenue westbound will be closed between Lansdowne Avenue and Acacia Avenue from 6:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Beechwood Avenue will be one lane westbound between Acacia Avenue and Crichton Road from 6:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
• Crichton Road northbound will be closed between Beechwood Avenue and Dufferin Road from 6:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
• Dufferin Road will be closed between Stanley Avenue and Crichton Street from 6:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
• Stanley Avenue will be closed between Dufferin Road and Sussex Drive from 6:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
• Colonel By Drive will be closed between Rideau Street and Hawthorne Avenue from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• The Pretoria Bridge will be closed from 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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