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Highway 407 in the province of Ontario, Canada has no toll booths, and instead reads a transponder mounted on the windshields of each vehicle using the road ( the rear license plates of vehicles lacking a transponder are photographed when they enter and exit the highway ).
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The Highway 407 in Ontario is one of the world's first completely automated toll highways.
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* The 100 year lease on toll Highway 407 in Ontario, Canada ends and full control of the electronic toll expressway returns to the Government of Ontario.
In 1992, the printing plant was moved to the Highway 407 & 400 interchange in Vaughan.
Continued high rates of growth are forecast as farmland north of Dundas Street ( former Highway 5 ) and south of Highway # 407 is developed into more suburban housing.
In 1973, the restructuring of Halton County into Halton Region brought the northern border southwards to just north of the future Highway 407.
* Highway 407 ( east-west )
As Minister of Finance, Eves also oversaw two controversial privatization initiatives: the long-term lease of the Bruce nuclear generating station to British Energy and the 99-year lease of Highway 407 to a consortium of mainly foreign investors.
In 1999, Highway 407 was leased to a private consortium in the largest such scheme to privatize the management of a public asset in Canadian history.
Highway 407, officially known as the 407 Express Toll Route ( ETR ), is a privately operated 400-series highway and tollway in the Canadian province of Ontario.
Despite being included as part of the 400-series network, Highway 407 is not part of the provincial highway network.
Leased to a private consortium in 1999, Highway 407 was formerly planned as a 400-series freeway to bypass the Toronto segment of Highway 401, currently the busiest highway in North America.
Major freeway junctions with Highway 407 are located at ( from west to east ) the Queen Elizabeth Way ( QEW ), Highways 403, 401, 410, 427, 400, and 404.
In all, there are 40 different junctions on Highway 407 connecting the toll road with the main transportation network in the Greater Toronto Area.
Highway 407 is the first electronically operated toll highway opened in the world ; there are no toll booths along the length of the highway.
Highway 407 is designed as a normal freeway with interchanges connecting directly to surface streets, without the need for toll booth intermediaries ( typically via a trumpet interchange ) which could otherwise take up significant land.
Highway 407 ETR begins at the Highway 403 / Queen Elizabeth Way junction in Burlington, Ontario | Burlington.
Highway and province
Demonstratively, Highway 7 between Fredericton and Saint John, which has one of the highest frequencies of moose collisions in the province, did not have these fences until 2008, although it was and continues to be extremely well signed.
Highway 11, stretching from Regina to just south of Prince Albert, has been named Louis Riel Trail by the province ; the roadway passes near locations of the 1885 rebellion.
The August 2010 China National Highway 110 traffic jam in Hebei province, China, is considered the world's worst traffic jam ever, as traffic congestion stretched more than from August 14 to the 26, including at least 11 days of total gridlock.
The travel writer Tim Cahill wrote a book, Road Fever, about his record-setting 24-day drive from Ushuaia in the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay in the U. S. state of Alaska with professional long-distance driver Garry Sowerby, much of their route following the Pan-American Highway.
The province before approving any road funds for the project, wanted Council approval for the whole project, while the vote covered only the Lawrence to Highway 400 section, including the interchange.
The province's transportation minister, William Goodfellow, wrote to Metro Council to state that since Metro had not voted to approve the whole project, that the province would not consider connecting Spadina with Highway 401.
Metro and the province ended their dispute in an agreement to build the Black Creek Drive arterial road, a southerly extension of Highway 400.
The Pan-American Highway in Ecuador begins at the border with Colombia in Carchi province and almost immediately enters the city of Tulcán.
The 427 – Humber section was downloaded by the province to Toronto in 1997, and was renamed as part of the Gardiner Expressway, so that the QEW now ends at Highway 427.
The Autoroute system is a network of expressways in the province of Quebec, Canada, operating under the same principle of controlled access as the Interstate Highway System in the United States or the 400-Series Highways in neighbouring Ontario.
In 1960, The Gap opened along the north shore of Lake Superior and completed the Trans-Canada Highway in the province.
It is located on Highway # 14, west of Saskatoon, the province ’ s most populous city.
King's Highway 33, commonly referred to as Highway 33, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario.
King's Highway 115, commonly referred to as Highway 115 is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario that connects Peterborough with Toronto via Highway 401.
It is on the Trans-Canada Highway in the province of British Columbia at its junction with northbound Highway 97.
* British Columbia Highway 97 is the longest continuously-numbered route in the province, from the Canada / U. S. border at Osoyoos to the British Columbia / Yukon border
In the province of Ontario, most spur routes are designated as A or B, such as Highway 17A, or 7B.
King's Highway 58, commonly referred to as Highway 58, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario.
Highway and Ontario
The same is not true along thousands of kilometres of Trans-Canada Highway in regions such as Northern Ontario as the mostly two-lane road makes its lengthy journey westward through tiny, distant and isolated communities.
* 1999 – An 87-automobile pile-up happens on Highway 401 freeway just East of Windsor, Ontario, Canada after an unusually thick fog from Lake St. Clair.
Ontario Highway 401, the busiest highway in North America
This highway ( Highway 427 in Toronto, Ontario ) uses asphalt and concrete pavement, both of which are popular road surfaces on highways.
* Busiest highway: Highway 401 in Ontario, Canada, has volumes surpassing an average of 500, 000 vehicles per day in some sections of Toronto.
* Highway Roundabouts from the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario
The Western provinces have coordinated their highway numbers so that the main Trans-Canada route is designated Highway 1 and the Yellowhead route is designated Highway 16 throughout ; however, from the Manitoba – Ontario border eastwards, the highway numbers change at each provincial boundary.
Ontario Highway 17 | Highway 17 in Mattawa, Ontario
Ontario Highway 17 | Highway 17 near Echo Bay, Ontario
From Nipigon, Highway 11 extends through Northern Ontario for east to Hearst and another east through Cochrane.
Known as Highway 417 in Ontario ( and the Queensway in Ottawa ) and Autoroute 40 in Quebec, the Trans-Canada also assumes the name " Autoroute Métropolitaine " ( also known as " The Met " or " Metropolitan Boulevard ") as it traverses Montreal as an elevated highway.
Its southern terminus is at Interstate 40 in Dandridge, Tennessee ; its northern terminus is on Wellesley Island ( near Fishers Landing, New York ) at the Canadian border, where the Thousand Islands Bridge connects it to Highway 401, the main Ontario freeway connecting Detroit via Toronto to Montreal.
On the Canadian side of the border, in Sarnia, Ontario, the route heads easterly designated as Highway 402.
Brockville and Brock in Ontario, Brock in Saskatchewan, General Isaac Brock Parkway on Highway 405 and Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario are all named in tribute to Brock.
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