Ottawa Traffic Cameras

The 417 is the busiest corridor on the map, and Ontario 511 runs a near-continuous line of cameras along it: the Highway 7 interchange and Carp Road west of Kanata, then Palladium Drive, Terry Fox Drive, Kanata Avenue and Eagleson Road, then Moodie Drive and Bells Corners, then the urban stretch at Pinecrest, Richmond, Woodroffe, Maitland, Churchill, Parkdale, Bronson, O'Connor and Nicholas, and finally Vanier Parkway, St. Laurent Boulevard, Belfast Road, Innes Road and Walkley Road heading east. The Highway 417 camera page lays all of them out in a single scrolling grid, which beats hunting for map markers when you only want to know whether the Queensway is moving. Coverage thins sharply at both ends: west of the Highway 7 interchange the next cameras are the three at Decosta Street in Arnprior, 50 km out, and east of Walkley Road the only cameras before the Quebec border are the three at the Nation River bridge near Casselman. Highway 416 is watched at the 417 interchange, the Rideau River crossing and the McKenna Casey bridge, and there are a handful of cameras further out on Highway 401, Highway 7, Highway 17 and Highway 15.

Highway 174 is a municipal road rather than a provincial one, so its twelve cameras come from the City of Ottawa feed and refresh every eight seconds instead of every ten minutes. They cover Blair, Montreal Road, Jeanne d'Arc, Champlain, Cameron, Canaan and Trim. Paired with the Innes Road and Tenth Line cameras, that gives Orleans commuters a usable read on both of the routes downtown.

City cameras sit at signalised intersections, so coverage follows the arterial grid rather than any one route. The densest corridors are Bank Street (33 cameras, from Wellington through the Glebe out to Leitrim), Carling Avenue (19), Woodroffe Avenue (16), Hunt Club Road (15), Innes Road (13), Bronson Avenue (12), St. Laurent Boulevard (11) and Richmond Road (10). Kanata is covered along Terry Fox Drive, March Road and Hazeldean Road; Barrhaven along Strandherd, Greenbank, Longfields and Fallowfield; Nepean along Baseline, Merivale and Prince of Wales; downtown along Elgin, Rideau, Laurier, Somerset and Wellington. Outside the greenbelt coverage thins to almost nothing: Manotick has a single camera, at Bridge Street and Manotick Main, and Stittsville has one at Hazeldean and Stittsville Main.

The Champlain Bridge has a camera at each end. The Portage Bridge is visible from the Wellington / Kichi Zībī Mīkan camera, and the Chaudière crossing from the Booth Street camera. On the Quebec side, Gatineau's Autoroute 5 cameras cover the approach to the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge, while Autoroute 50 and Route 148 cover the Draveurs and Lady-Aberdeen crossings and the run east toward Masson. The Alexandra Bridge has no camera of its own; it also closes to motorists repeatedly for maintenance and is due to be replaced starting in 2028, so do not plan a commute around it.