Haljackey
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Video of the entire route of Highway 407.
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Roads: Ontario/GTA Highways Discussion
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W. K. Lis
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A bill will be e-mailed to you at the end of the video, to share the costs involved.
TOareaFan
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A wee update on the 410.....over the past week, the bottleneck at the 401 to northbound 410 has ended as the ramp to 410 is back to 2 lanes.......highway itself is 3 lanes (plus merge lanes) all the way now...and the two additional lanes seem ready (but not open) to just south of Steeles. The new lanes are "coned off" from use for the time being but it looks like there will be some staged opening to this (cones seem a very temporary way of preventing use of highway lanes.
FYI, there seems to be no hint in what is there now about the previously mentioned collector system.
FYI, there seems to be no hint in what is there now about the previously mentioned collector system.
Dan416
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Hmm I take the 401 ramp to northbound 410 everyday....the ramp still merges down to 1 lane. Unless you're referring to westbound 401?
TOareaFan
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I am referring to WB......until last week there was a back - up all the way to Dixie caused by the lane closure......lane has re-opened and things are much smoother
Haljackey
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Also here's a quick tour of Highway 412 that was built as part of the 407 extension. It connects the 407 with the 401.
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Dan416
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Is it just me or is there a lack of barriers between the different directions?
11th
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Probably old news, but just noticed today they've numbered Gardiner's exits, as extension of QEW exit numbers.
W. K. Lis
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Finally.
What about the Don Valley Parkway? Are they now or going to be continued to be numbered from the 404?
Normally, the numbering "starts" at a city hall. The Highway 400 exit numbers are kilometres from Toronto's city hall.
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The kilometre posts on Ontario highways do represent the distance from the town or city centre - typically defined as the city or town hall. And yes, the 400 and 404 are numbered like that too. Remember as well there were plans to extend Highway 400 south from Jane Street (Exit 20) to the junction of the Richview and Crosstown Expressways along the Black Creek Drive alignment, so the highway exits could be extended further south.
But kilometre "0" on the QEW, Highway 401, and Highway 402 don't represent the city halls of Fort Erie, Windsor or Sarnia, they represent the border. Highway 410 has new exit numbers, but they represent distance to Highway 401, not Mississauga City Hall.
BurlOak
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Generally, the kilometre posts on Ontario highways do represent the distance from the start of highway.
Toronto is the oddball, where I believe that highway 400 is measured from DVP and Pottery Road, and Highway 404 measured from Lake
Ontario.
MTO highways are numbered from South to North, or West to East (for example, look at the start and end points of the QEW, and they are more north-south of each other than east-west. Thus it is a north-south highway for numbering.
http://www.blogto.com/upload/2011/09/2011913-expressways-plan-1966.jpg
Toronto is the oddball, where I believe that highway 400 is measured from DVP and Pottery Road, and Highway 404 measured from Lake
Ontario.
MTO highways are numbered from South to North, or West to East (for example, look at the start and end points of the QEW, and they are more north-south of each other than east-west. Thus it is a north-south highway for numbering.
http://www.blogto.com/upload/2011/09/2011913-expressways-plan-1966.jpg
Steve X
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The 406 is irregularly numbered from North to South starting at QEW. 417 is numbered from East to West as it assist drivers from Quebec.
Highways never numbered from the city hall but the start if the highway. Ontario still believes that the 400 and 401 could be extended when they switch into kilometer based exit numbers and started the 400 at 19 (first exit is 20 @ Jane St) and 401 at 11 (first numbered exit is 13 @ Douglas Parkway). The 400 never got it's extension to the Gardiner but the 401 extension into Windsor was completed last year bring the first exit number to 1.
Ontario exit number also have irregularity such as 404 starting at 17 as mention, 11/400 split with 11 containing on with 400's numbers. The freeway part of 115 is also numbered. I'm not sure if the numbered the RIRO expressway portion of 11 or 34/115 but exit numbers are now hown on the highway 11 RIRO expressway on the newest 2016 MTO Ontario map.
On interstates, exit numbers are always numbered from west to east and south to north starting at state boarders or the beginning of the highway. Exit numbers never picks up from another highway and never from north to south (406's beginning at QEW). If a highway like the 406 is extended southwards, the exit numbers are changed to align the new southern terminal. Ontario exit numbers are numbered for drivers from the main highway where as interstates are more standard.
The portion of Gardiner east of 427 to Humber Bay was originally port of the QEW and is numbered to 145 (exit at Hwy 2/Lake shore). So it's no surprised if its renumbered again.
Highways never numbered from the city hall but the start if the highway. Ontario still believes that the 400 and 401 could be extended when they switch into kilometer based exit numbers and started the 400 at 19 (first exit is 20 @ Jane St) and 401 at 11 (first numbered exit is 13 @ Douglas Parkway). The 400 never got it's extension to the Gardiner but the 401 extension into Windsor was completed last year bring the first exit number to 1.
Ontario exit number also have irregularity such as 404 starting at 17 as mention, 11/400 split with 11 containing on with 400's numbers. The freeway part of 115 is also numbered. I'm not sure if the numbered the RIRO expressway portion of 11 or 34/115 but exit numbers are now hown on the highway 11 RIRO expressway on the newest 2016 MTO Ontario map.
On interstates, exit numbers are always numbered from west to east and south to north starting at state boarders or the beginning of the highway. Exit numbers never picks up from another highway and never from north to south (406's beginning at QEW). If a highway like the 406 is extended southwards, the exit numbers are changed to align the new southern terminal. Ontario exit numbers are numbered for drivers from the main highway where as interstates are more standard.
The portion of Gardiner east of 427 to Humber Bay was originally port of the QEW and is numbered to 145 (exit at Hwy 2/Lake shore). So it's no surprised if its renumbered again.
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W. K. Lis
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When they finish the bridge and open it to traffic, they'll ask " who is Gordie Howe"?
TOareaFan
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isn't that precisely the point of naming things after people? to keep their name alive and make future generations ask..."who were they and why are things named after them"?