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The minimum vertical clearance is 5.4 metres (17 ft 9 in) for main roads and highways, and 4.6 metres (15 ft 1 in) for other local roads with road authority approval. For high and very high clearance roads, the values are between 5.9 metres (19 ft 4 in) and 6.5 metres (21 ft 4 in).
The remaining additional stretches were on Highway 69 with a 60 km (37 mi) stretch between Sudbury and French River, on Highway 416 with a 70 km (43 mi) stretch between near Highway 401 and 5 km (3.1 mi) south of the north end of the highway, [34] and on Highway 406 with a 13 km (8.1 mi) stretch between Thorold and Welland, although it only ...
The National Highway System (French: Réseau routier national) in Canada is a federal designation for a strategic transport network of highways and freeways. [1] The system includes but is not limited to the Trans-Canada Highway, [1] and currently consists of 38,098 kilometres (23,673 mi) of roadway designated under one of three classes: Core Routes, Feeder Routes, and Northern and Remote Routes.
The Yellowhead Highway is a 2,859-kilometre (1,777 mi) highway in Western Canada, running from Masset, British Columbia, to where it intersects Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway) just west of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. It is designated as Highway 16 in all four provinces that it passes through (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and ...
Doolittle, a Toronto physician, became one of the earliest automobile owners in Canada, and spurred the good roads movement. [73] He became the first person to drive across Canada in 1925, utilizing the railways around Lake Superior where no roads existed, and is known as the "Father of the Trans-Canada Highway". [70]
There are many classes of roads in Canada. The only inter-provincial systems are the Trans-Canada Highway and National Highway System. [1] Major roads in Canada.
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).
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 / Highway 7) Guelph: Woodlawn Rd W Highway 401: A few interchanges throughout the road. Planned to be upgraded to a fully controlled-access highway. [10] [11 ...