page_title: Adàwe Crossing
hierarchical_section_title: Adàwe Crossing
caption_attribution_description: English: Adàwe Crossing, Ottawa, art work installation entitled "A View from Two Sides" - photo captures only one of the two spheres of this art work
context_page_description: The Adàwe Crossing is a pedestrian and cyclist bridge in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, built across the Rideau River. It is located about 1,200 metres north of the Highway 417 bridge and 800 metres south from the Cummings Bridge. It was opened on December 4, 2015 and links the communities of Overbook and Sandy Hill.
  The Adàwe Crossing is an approximately 125m long bridge structure that consists of three spans with variable steel girders and a composite concrete deck. The usable deck width is 4m and it increases to a 7m width at the two mid-river piers which provide for two lookout areas on both the north and south sides. The Rideau River is a navigable river and the height of the bridge respects water clearance requirements including those for the annual spring ice clearing operations.
  The design and construction budget for the bridge and related works was $9.2 million. This included construction of multi-use pathway connections from the bridge west through Strathcona Park to the Range Road and Somerset Street East intersection and east along Donald Street to North River Road, together with rehabilitation of the parking lot in Strathcona Park and a short section of Donald Street.
context_section_description: The Adàwe Crossing (French: passerelle Adàwe) is a pedestrian and cyclist bridge in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, built across the Rideau River.  It is located about 1,200 metres (1,300 yd) north (downstream) of the Highway 417 bridge (Provincial Constable J. Robert Maki Bridge) and 800 metres (870 yd) south (upstream) from the Cummings Bridge.  It was opened on December 4, 2015 and links the communities of Overbook and Sandy Hill.
  
  The Adàwe Crossing is an approximately 125m long bridge structure that consists of three spans with variable steel girders and a composite concrete deck.  The usable deck width is 4m and it increases to a 7m width at the two mid-river piers which provide for two lookout areas on both the north and south sides.  The Rideau River is a navigable river and the height of the bridge respects water clearance requirements including those for the annual spring ice clearing operations.
  The design and construction budget for the bridge and related works was $9.2 million. This included construction of multi-use pathway connections from the bridge west through Strathcona Park to the Range Road and Somerset Street East intersection and east along Donald Street to North River Road, together with rehabilitation of the parking lot in Strathcona Park and a short section of Donald Street.
  In the first ten days after the bridge opened about 20,000 trips were taken across it by pedestrians and cyclists.  The busiest user month to date was July 2017 with over 121,000 trip crossings.  During the prime cycling months of May to September inclusive the monthly crossing totals range between 90,000 and 110,000 trips, generally evenly split between pedestrians and cyclists.  The Adàwe Crossing continues to prove to be a popular location to take photos from the bridge, of the bridge and of the bridge's art work "A View from Two Sides".
  The Adàwe Crossing and its pathways are part of a City of Ottawa crosstown bikeway (Route #3) identified in the Ottawa Cycling Plan. To the west this crosstown bikeway leads via Somerset Street East to the nearby University of Ottawa and downtown of Ottawa. The bikeway route continues to the Corktown Footbridge over the Rideau Canal.
caption: Art work entitled "A View from Two Sides" - March 2016
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