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*** Conestoga Parkway in Kitchener, Ontario
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Most prominent is the Conestoga Parkway in Kitchener-Waterloo, which is numbered in 3 sections ; Highway 7 / 8, Highway 7, and Highway 85, and the Highway 8 Freeport Diversion between Highway 401 and the Conestoga.
The Conestoga Parkway is a freeway in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, in the Canadian province of Ontario.
The multiplex of Highway 7 and Highway 8 enters the city of Kitchener as a controlled-access freeway from the west ; it takes on the name Conestoga Parkway at the Trussler Road exit at the western edge of the city.
At the time, the Conestoga Parkway and Highway 8 Freeport Diversion freeways were isolated from the 400-series highway network, as the Freeport Diversion ended at an at-grade Y-junction with King Street East.
The new Highway 7 freeway proposal linking up the Conestoga in Waterloo and the Hanlon Parkway in Guelph bypasses the existing Highway 7 / Victoria Street.
The plans also call for a complex 4-level interchange with the Conestoga Parkway and Wellington Street, a rarity outside of the Greater Toronto Area.
It initially consisted of the part of the City of Kitchener bounded on the west by the western limit of the city, on the south by a line drawn from west to east along the Conestoga Parkway, Strasburg Road, Block Line Road, the Canadian Pacific Railway line, and Highway No. 8, on the east by the Grand River, and on the north by a line drawn from east to west along Victoria Street, Lawrence Avenue and Highland Road West.
In 2003, it was redefined to consist of the part of the City of Kitchener bounded on the west by the western limit of the city, on the north by a line drawn from west to east along Highland Road West, Fischer Hallman Road and the Canadian National Railway situated northerly of Shadeland Crescent, on the east by the Grand River, and on the south by a line drawn from east to west along the King Street Bypass ( Highway No. 8 ), King Street East and the Conestoga Parkway.
The district includes the townships of Woolwich, Wellesley and Wilmot, and the southwestern part of the City of Kitchener, i. e., the part of the City of Kitchener lying south of a line ( from west to east ) Conestoga Parkway, King Street East, the King Street Bypass and the Grand River.
In addition, work is underway to widen the section through Durham Region from Pickering to Highway 12 to four lanes, as well as to extend the Conestoga Parkway to New Hamburg.
A portion of this segment, from Waterloo Regional Road 51 south of Baden to Highway 85 in Kitchener is a freeway, forming part of the Conestoga Parkway.
This would connect to the Conestoga Parkway via an expansion of the existing Wellington Road interchange, the new junction would be a four level interchange ; the government's eventual plan is to have a Highway 7 freeway running from Stratford to Guelph.
The Government of Ontario has plans to build a new Highway 7 freeway bypass joining the current northern terminus of the Hanlon Parkway to the Conestoga Parkway in Kitchener ; if the project goes ahead, it is likely that the Hanlon will be upgraded to a freeway for its full length and given a 400-series highway designation.
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