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Through much of eastern Ontario, Highway 401 is a rural freeway with a grass median. From east of Highway 35 and Highway 115 to Cobourg, Highway 401 passes through a mix of agricultural land and forests, maintaining a straight course. [51] Highway 401 passes through the north end of the towns of Port Hope and Cobourg with
The September 3, 1999, Ontario Highway 401 crash, was a multiple-vehicle collision that resulted from dense fog conditions on a section of Ontario Highway 401 between Windsor and Tilbury. There were 87 vehicles involved in the pile-up in both directions of the divided highway, killing eight people and injuring a further 45.
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), [105] 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 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).
Highway 401: Maddaugh Road See Ontario Highway 6#Future. [18] Highway 7: Kitchener: Guelph: See Ontario Highway 7#Proposed Kitchener–Guelph freeway. [19] Highway 69: Highway 400: See Ontario Highway 69#Four-laning. [20] Highway 413 Highway 401 / 407 ETR Highway 400: Entire length.
Highway 401 / Highway 403 in Mississauga Highway 10 (Hurontario Street) in Caledon: 1978 [47] current Highway 412: 10.0: 6.2 Highway 401 in Whitby Highway 407 in Whitby West Durham Link 2016 [48] current Former tolled Highway. Route number assigned February 5, 2015 [49] Highway 416: 76.4: 47.5 Highway 401 towards Brockville
Construction of Ontario Highways 400 and 401 began in the early 1950s, with the last section of 401 completed in 1968. Both roads were intended as bypasses, going around populated areas instead of through them (the highways 11/27 and 2 which they replaced were Main Street in nearly every served community) and therefore initially had few services.
The King's Highway 401 (also known as the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway) is a highway that extends across Southern Ontario, Canada. It is the longest 400-Series Highway in Ontario, and one of the widest and busiest highways in the world. In fact, the highway has the distinction of being North America's busiest freeway.