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Highway 407 begins at the Highway 403/Queen Elizabeth Way junction in Burlington. Highway 407 is a 151.4-kilometre (94.1 mi) [1] controlled-access highway that encircles the GTA, passing through Burlington, Oakville, Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Markham, Pickering, Whitby, Oshawa, and Clarington, as well as travelling immediately north of Toronto.
COMPASS, also referred to as Freeway Traffic Management System, is a system run by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) to monitor and manage the flow of traffic on various roads (including 400-series highways) in Ontario. COMPASS uses pairs of in-road sensors to detect the speed and density of traffic flow.
The 400-series highways are a network of controlled-access highways in the Canadian province of Ontario, forming a special subset of the provincial highway system.They are analogous to the Interstate Highway System in the United States or the Autoroute system of neighbouring Quebec, and are regulated by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO).
Toronto Highway 400: Eglinton Ave W: No interchanges. Pedestrians are prohibited. [7] Cootes Drive (City Road 8) Hamilton City Road 99 (Dundas St) Main St W First divided dual-carriageway road built in Canada. [8] Harbour Expressway: Thunder Bay Highway 11 / Highway 17 / Highway 61 / TCH: Fort William Rd [9] Hanlon Expressway (Highway 6 ...
Changeable Message Sign (CMS) on northbound Don Valley Parkway, part of the RESCU traffic management system. The CMS in Toronto are being replaced by a walk-in variation. The Road Emergency Services Communications Unit (RESCU) is a traffic management system used by the City of Toronto on city managed highways. The system is used to monitor ...
The Toronto–Barrie Highway (Highway 400), Trans-Provincial Highway (Highway 401), [24] a short expansion of Highway 7 approaching the Blue Water Bridge in Sarnia (Highway 402), [104] and an expansion of Highway 27 (eventually designated as Highway 427 by the mid-1970s) into part of the Toronto Bypass were all underway or completed by the ...
The entire length of the parkway uses the RESCU Traffic Management System, which was installed in 1994. [28] Like the similar COMPASS system on provincial freeways, RESCU combines in-pavement sensors with traffic cameras and changeable message signs (6 fixed and 10 portable) to alert drivers of accidents, traffic conditions and upcoming closures.
Highway 407 – Toronto, Peterborough: Toll highway; Highway 407 exit 118: Brooklin: 1.9: 1.2 Highway 7 west – Markham Regional Road 3 east (Winchester Road) Southern end of Highway 7 concurrency: Whitby: 6.0: 3.7 Regional Road 26 south (Thickson Road) Scugog: 16.1: 10.0 Highway 7A – Port Perry, Peterborough Regional Road 21 west (Goodwood ...