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current Highway 7: 535.7: 332.9 Highway 4 – Elginfield Highway 417 – Ottawa: 1920 [6] current Discontinuous between Georgetown and Markham, instead signed as RR-7 Highway 7A: 48.3: 30.0 Highway 7 / Highway 12 near Port Perry Highway 115 near Peterborough: 1933 [7] current Highway 8: 159.7: 99.2 Highway 21 – Goderich Highway 5 near Dundas
The current proposals by the MTO consist of two new freeways in the GTA and continued widening and four-laning of existing highways. Highway 413 is a proposed four-to-six lane freeway bypass of the GTA around Brampton , connecting Highway 401 and Highway 407 with Highway 400 north of Vaughan.
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 MTO is in charge of various aspects of transportation in Ontario, including the establishment and maintenance of the provincial highway system, the registration of vehicles and licensing of drivers, and the policing of provincial roads, enforced by the Ontario Provincial Police and the ministry's in-house enforcement program (Commercial vehicle enforcement).
With Highway 402 as the connecting provincial link between the two segments of Highway 21, the two parclo interchanges each include a directional ramp to facilitate traffic. [23] Further transfers were performed in 1997 and 1998. On April 1, 1997, the section of Highway 21 from Highway 401 south to Morpeth was transferred to Kent County. [24]
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).
The proposed route of Highway 413 was confirmed in the Technically Preferred Route report, which was published by Aecon and released on August 7, 2020. [5] The approximately 52 km (32 mi) route would consist of a four-to-six lane freeway as well as a transitway situated within a 170-metre (560 ft)-wide right-of-way.
The MTO formally announced plans to alleviate traffic in Newmarket on August 28, 2000: a three contract project to widen and extend Highway 404. The first contract added an additional lane in each direction in the grass median from Major Mackenzie Drive to Bloomington Road. A second contract then extended those two lanes north to Aurora Sideroad.