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Police on both sides of the Ottawa River warn that rolling road closures as part of marches and demonstrations for climate change may cause commuter woes Friday.

Ottawa police said the first demonstration will begin around noon Friday and as a group marches from the University of Ottawa to Parliament Hill by 3 p.m.

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The group will travel north on Cumberland Street from the university, east on Rideau Street, north on King Edward Avenue, west on York Street, south on Mackenzie Avenue, west on Wellington Street, south on Elgin Street and into Confederation Park, west on Laurier Avenue and north on Metcalfe Street, then onto the lawn of Parliament Hill.

A second group, also marching as part of a global day for climate change protests, will leave Gatineau around 1 p.m. and march along the Portage Bridge, then east on Wellington Street to Parliament Hill.

Both Ottawa and Gatineau police will be enforcing rolling road closures and are asking commuters to avoid the area and to use alternate routes.

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