All of the roads near the Farm will be affected, to handle the increase in traffic from a hospital.

"The National Capital Commission Scenic Driveway is a tree-covered route flanked with bike trails. All of the roads serving the site with the exception of Prince of Wales Drive are expected to be widened to account for a greater density of traffic." (From:"Regenerating the Experimental Farm" 2016, page 30/74.)   This recommendation totally flies in the face of Agriculture Canada guidelines and it affects Maple Drive, Fisher Avenue, Cow Lane, Ash Lane, Birch Drive, Morningside Lane, the Observatory Crescent and the Scenic Driveway. By the way, Prince of Wales Drive is not being spared and Isabella Preston's crabapple trees that lined the route were dug up--savecfbrockcliffe.

Agriculture Canada guidelines: Fisher Avenue. "Analysis: Fisher Avenue is currently a two-lane undivided rural arterial with a sidewalk on the west side...A widening to four lanes is currently planned between Dynes Road and the NCC Driveway for transport priority purposes...Any widening of Fisher Avenue between Baseline and Carling, including improvements in support of public transit, will have visual and functional impacts on the Central Experimental Farm." Petition to Protect Fisher Avenue and Urban Forest in Ottawa's New Official Plan. 

Prince of Wales Drive. "Prince of Wales Drive should be maintained as a two lane road..(The Drive) is an integral part of the historic landscape of the Central Experimental Farm. It is a two lane undivided arterial with a proposed 26 m right of way. It is both a designated bicycle and transit route. Prince of Wales is identified in the City of Ottawa Official Plan as a Scenic Entry Route with a set of criteria related to future development applications along it." (Central Experimental Farm National Historic Site Management Plan,18/20-Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.)

Future developments will affect Prince of Wales Drive. The image is from Reimagine Ottawa, a group headed by writer and mayoral candidate Clive Doucet.

Merivale Road. "Merivale is a four-lane divided arterial road. Although there are generally sidewalks on both sides of Merivale, only the west side has a sidewalk in the section through to the Farm...No further road widening should be permitted. The east side should be enhanced with a landscape appropriate to the Farm featuring a gravel shoulder, a double row of tall fastigiated trees, suggesting a windrow, within a minimum 4 meter grassed boulevard and no curb."

Merivale Road.

Maple Drive. An accurate prediction from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada:

"We are now in a phase where there is going to be a road and traffic study conducted. Already the South Azimuth is getting in the way of road widening plans."(From: Point 27:06 out of 32 minutes and 38 seconds on the RASC YouTube video.)

 Baseline Road. Agriculture Canada---Any future widening of Baseline Road will have an impact on the rural character of the fields.

Carling Avenue.

NCC Driveway.

Internal Roadways include the Arboretum pathways, Fletcher Wildlife Garden pathways, Observatory Crescent, NCC Driveway, Cow Lane, Birch Drive, Morningside Drive and Ash Lane.  Agriculture Canada stated that "No internal road widenings should be permitted."(From:Central Experimental Farm National Historic Site Management Plan,18/20, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.) According to a May 31, 2021 CBC News article by Kate Porter about the Civic Hospital, Maple Drive will be an ambulance route. 

The South Azimuth, a Classified Canadian Federal Heritage Building located on Maple Drive.The photo is from Flickr.

Bayswater Drive.