5 of which were fatal. Residents and local politicians began a campaign by early 1979, pressuring the provincial government to widen the route and build interchanges. The province announced the widening of Highway17 from Montreal Road to Champlain Street on April 15, 1980; construction began in late May and was scheduled for completion in November, but would not include any grade-separations or interchanges. The Jeanne D'Arc Boulevard interchange was built in 1985. Studies began in 1986 to examine the Highway17 corridor east of Ottawa, and recommended that the route be widened between Champlain Street and Trim Road. Reconstruction of the section between Champlain Street and Trim Road was officially announced on May17, 1988. Work began in mid-1990, with the highway being detoured onto the future offramps to Champlain Street to allow the at-grade intersection to be rebuilt. the Champlain Street/Place d'Orleans interchange and the Tenth Line Road interchange were opened along with the widened Highway17 on November4, 1994. Despite the protests of the city that the road served a provincial purpose, a second round of transfers saw Highway17 east of Ottawa downloaded entirely on January1, 1998 adding to the length of Regional Road174. The Trans-Canada Highway designation was subsequently moved from the former Highway17 to Highway417. Ottawa immediately renumbered the transferred sections of Highway17 as Regional Road174. Regional Road174 was renamed Ottawa Road174 when the Regional Municipality of Ottawa–Carleton amalgamated with the municipalities of the region to form the new City of Ottawa in 2001. The region, and later city, as well as the neighbouring county of Prescott-Russell, have petitioned the provincial government to "upload" the route back into the provincial highway network since then, and as recently as December 2021. Despite no further work occurring since 1994 to extend the widening beyond Trim Road, several Environmental Assessments (EAs) have taken place since 1988, particularly to widen the segment between Trim Road and Prescott-Russell County Road8 (Landry Road) near Rockland to a limited-access highway with a central concrete barrier. Major intersections See also Queensway (Ottawa) List of roads in Ottawa References Explanatory notes Roads in Ottawa Former segments of the Trans-Canada Highway