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King's Highway 401, colloquially referred to as the four-oh-one, opened between December 1947 and August 1956, and was known as the Toronto Bypass at that time. Although it has since been enveloped by suburban development, it still serves as the primary east–west through route in Toronto and the surrounding region.
The Trans-Canada Highway (French: Route Transcanadienne; abbreviated as the TCH or T-Can) [3] is a transcontinental federal–provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada, from the Pacific Ocean on the west coast to the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast. The main route spans 7,476 km (4,645 mi) across the country ...
East of Highway 427, the single carriageway of Highway 401 curves northeast and follows a power transmission corridor to the east end of Highway 409 where the highways merge and the 401 returns to its east–west route through Toronto. This is also the west end of the third and longest express-collector segment (43.7 km (27.2 mi)) which crosses ...
Typically, odd-numbered Interstates run south–north, with lower numbers in the west and higher numbers in the east; even-numbered Interstates run west–east, with lower numbers in the south and higher numbers in the north. Route numbers divisible by 5 usually represent major coast-to-coast or border-to-border routes (ex.
Full route as Trans-Canada Highway main route Highway 17A: 33.3: 20.7 Highway 17 west near Keewatin Highway 17 east near Kenora: 1990 [11] current Kenora Bypass Highway 17B: 0.9: 0.56 Highway 17: North Bay west limits at Duchesnay Creek bridge 1958 [12] [13] current North Bay Business Route Highway 17B: 20.6: 12.8
The route followed the present-day Highway 12 from Whitby to Sunderland, then travelled east to Lindsay. [6] Highway assumptions carried out on June 22 and July 2, 1927, extended Highway 7 east from Brampton to Peterborough. In doing so, it became concurrent with Highway 12 between Whitby and Sunderland. The route of Highway 12 between ...
There are a number of freeways that serve both the city proper and the Greater Toronto Area. Bisecting the city from west to east across its inner suburbs, Highway 401 (or simply, "the 401") acts as a bypass of the downtown core, and is both the busiest and widest highway in Canada. At its interchange with Highway 400, where it spans 18 lanes ...
West of the interchange with Highway 416, the freeway enters the suburb of Kanata [15] and travels through it in an east–west direction. [16] At Exit 145, the route encounters the eastern terminus of Highway 7, which travels southwest to Peterborough and Greater Toronto and provides an alternative route to Highway 401.