The Ottawa arena is right off the Trans-Canada, IIRC from 20 years ago when I worked in Ottawa. And that highway goes up to (but not into) downtown.
Downtown in Ottawa is a government core, not really a business core like Calgary, and it becomes really dead from 5:00 onward.
The trouble isn't really the access IMO, it's the length of the drive. It's quite far even from central Ottawa. So rsidents on the south and east side face probably an hour's worth of travel to get there.
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