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Odd numbers generally refer to north-south routes. Even numbers generally refer to east-west routes. Autoroutes — expressways (Route 920 is unmarked, ex:Autoroute 20) Route numbers for bypasses and spurs take on a prefix (4nn-9nn) 100-series — primary highways (ex:Route 138) Secondary routes
When Ontario signed the Trans-Canada Highway Agreement on April 25, 1950, it had already chosen a Central Ontario routing via Highway 7, Highway 12, Highway 103 and Highway 69; [101] Highway 17 through the Ottawa Valley was announced as a provincially-funded secondary route of the Trans-Canada the following day. [102]
Queensway, Trans-Canada Highway 1971 [51] current Upgraded portion of Highway 17 and unlike most freeways, kilometre posts are numbered east to west. Highway 418: 12.8: 8.0 Highway 401 in Clarington Highway 407 in Clarington East Durham Link 2019 [52] current Former tolled highway. Route number assigned February 5, 2015. [49]
Instead, most urban sections of numbered roads are referred to by their names. Ottawa's city council adopted an updated route-numbering policy in 2005, under which road numbers are no longer posted inside the Greenbelt except for significant roads such as Ottawa Road 174, a former provincial highway, which is now usually known as "The 174".
There are many classes of roads in Ontario, Canada, including provincial highways (which is further broken down into the King's Highways, the 400-series, Secondary Highways, Tertiary Highways, and the 7000-series), county (or regional) roads, and local municipal routes.
A section of Municipal Road 35 between the eastern intersection of Notre-Dame Street (Municipal Road 21) in Azilda to Highway 144 in Chelmsford is currently a two-lane highway. There are plans to widen that section of highway, although no date has been announced. [6] Construction to widen Municipal Rd. 35 is set to begin in the fall of 2018. [7]
A route (or road) number, designation or abbreviation is an identifying numeric (or alphanumeric) designation assigned by a highway authority to a particular stretch of roadway to distinguish it from other routes and, in many cases, also to indicate its classification (e.g. motorway, primary route, regional road, etc.), general geographical location (in zonal numbering systems) and/or ...
Sample route sign for an Ontario county road. This is a list of County and Regional (collectively known as divisions) numbered roads in Ontario. These roads are found only in Southern Ontario (with the lone exception being Greater Sudbury, which is in Northern Ontario), and are listed alphabetically by county, because more than one county can sometimes have the same county road number without ...