Terry Fox Drive

Initially a minor road, Terry Fox Drive became a more important and busier road due to growing communities in Kanata and neighbouring Stittsville. The Kanata Centrum shopping complex, a Holiday Inn, a number of large-scale retail uses and Canadian Tire Centre (which began as the Palladium in 1996 and was later known as both the Corel Centre and Scotiabank Place) are now located along or near the road.

OC Transpo's Terry Fox Station and Park and ride, which opened in 2005, are also located near Kanata Centrum.

Terry Fox Drive is also the location of the City Hall of the former city of Kanata, located just southwest of the intersection with Palladium Drive, before Kanata was amalgamated into the new City of Ottawa in 2001.

Kanata's second Wal-Mart (a Wal-Mart Supercentre) opened in August 2012, and is located at the intersection of Terry Fox Drive and Fernbank Road. There is a regular Wal-Mart in Kanata Centrum.

There have been several expansion and widening projects have occurred. Mostly a two-lane road between Highway 417 and Hazeldean Road, this section was later widened to four lanes. From 2000 to 2006 it was gradually extended to the south where it crosses Fernbank Road and now continues on to Eagleson Road. It has also been extended to the north towards Kanata Avenue.

Future expansion of Terry Fox Drive is controversial,{{cite web|url=http://www.yourottawaregion.com/news/local/article/625980--turtle-tussle-over-terry-fox|title=Turtle tussle over Terry Fox |publisher=Ottawa Citizen |first=Blair |last=Edwards |date=March 3, 2010 |archive-date=March 8, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100308014805/http://www.yourottawaregion.com/news/local/article/625980--turtle-tussle-over-terry-fox}} with opposition from the Sierra Club,{{cite web |url=http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/endangered-species/save-blandings-turtle |title=Save the Blanding's Turtle |publisher=Sierra Club Canada |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100405042555/http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/endangered-species/save-blandings-turtle |archivedate=2010-04-05 }} David Suzuki Foundation,{{cite web|url=http://www.renaud.ca/public/Letters_of_Support/2010-06-13_David_Suzuki_Foundation_Letter_To_Lemay.pdf |title=Re: Protection of the South March Highlands |author=David Suzuki Foundation |date=June 13, 2010 |website=www.renaud.ca |format=PDF}} Greenpeace,{{cite web|url=http://www.renaud.ca/public/Letters_of_Support/2011-07-18+Greenpeace+Protect+the+South+March+Highlands.pdf|title=Personal WebSpace - Paul Renaud|website=www.renaud.ca}} Robert Bateman {{cite web|url=http://www.renaud.ca/public/Letters_of_Support/2011-03-07-Robert-Bateman-Letter.pdf |title=R Bateman letter |date=2011 |website=www.renaud.ca |format=PDF}} and many residents{{Cite web |url=https://greenparty.ca/blogs/13326/2010-03-11/ottawas-terry-fox-road-environmental-study-seriously-flawed |title=Ottawa's Terry Fox Road Environmental Study Is Seriously Flawed |access-date=2017-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728160556/http://www.greenparty.ca/blogs/13326/2010-03-11/ottawas-terry-fox-road-environmental-study-seriously-flawed |archive-date=2012-07-28 |url-status=dead }} because the road is planned to cut through a provincially significant wetland affecting 20 species at risk in this area:{{cite web|url=http://www.renaud.ca/public/Presentations/2011-05-17+SMH+Overview+v17.pdf|title=Personal WebSpace - Paul Renaud|website=www.renaud.ca}} including endangered species such as the Butternut Tree, American Ginseng, and the Blanding's Turtle.

The last remaining section of the Terry Fox Drive extension from Old Second Line Road to Kanata Avenue opened for traffic on 21 July 2011, finally connecting Kanata Lakes to Morgan's Grant.

The remaining landscaping was completed and the official opening was planned for mid-August 2011.{{Cite web |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/technology/Terry+extension+open+traffic/5140109/story.html |title=Terry Fox extension open to traffic |date=July 21, 2011 |access-date=2011-07-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724151737/http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Terry+extension+open+traffic/5140109/story.html |archive-date=2011-07-24 |url-status=dead }}

Speed limit through most of the southern section of Terry Fox is {{convert|70|km/h|abbr=on}}, however for a small portion south of Glen Cairn, the speed limit is {{convert|80|km/h|abbr=on}}, while near Hazeldean Road it is {{convert|60|km/h|abbr=on}}. The Terry Fox section in Morgan's Grant and the Kanata Business Park has a speed limit of {{convert|50|km/h|abbr=on}}.

• Morgan's Grant (northern and eastern segment)
• Brookside (across from Morgan's Grant)
• Kanata Lakes
• Katimavik-Hazeldean
• Kanata West (accessed by Maple Grove Road)
• Glen Cairn (accessed by Winchester Drive and Castlefrank Road)
• Fernbank Crossing (currently being developed)
• Bridlewood
• Village Green

The following is a list of major intersections along Terry Fox Drive, from north to south:

• Herzberg Road
• Helmsdale Road
• Legget Drive
• McKinley Drive
• March Road
• Flamborough Way & Innovation Drive (formerly Goulbourn Forced Road)
• Old Second Line Road (formerly Second Line Road)
• Huntsville Drive
• Richardson Side Road
• Kanata Avenue
• Campeau Drive
• Roland Michener Drive (access to Kanata Centrum Shopping Centre)
• Highway 417
• Palladium Drive & Katimavik Road
• Maple Grove Road
• Charlie Rogers Place & Edgewater Street
• Hazeldean Road
• Halkirk Avenue & Winchester Drive
• Castlefrank Road
• Westphalian Avenue (access to the new Fernbank Crossing subdivision)
• Cope Drive
• Fernbank Road
• Overberg Way
• Eagleson Road

Terry Fox Drive continues east past Eagleson Road as Hope Side Road.

• Terry Fox Station
• Terry Fox
• Kanata, Ontario
• OC Transpo
• Morgan's Grant
• Beaverbrook, Ottawa
• Kanata Lakes

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