King's Highway 2 - www.OntHighways.com
Highway 2 is the most important highway in Ontario Highway History, bar none! Highway 2 was known originally as the 'Trans-Provincial Highway". It was the first highway to span the entire province from Detroit to Montreal. Highway 2 was almost completely lost to downloading with only two remaining segments left: concurrently with Highway 49 near Marysville, and between the Thousand Islands Parkway and Highway 401 near Gananoque. Fortunately there are still many well signed segments of Highway 2, particularly connecting links such as Toronto, and Kingston.
Highway 2 was bypassed by Highway 401 in the 1950's and 60's, and the 401 has taken on many of the roles that Highway 2 once performed
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Old style Highway 2 marker cosigned with a very dated Heritage Highway marker. |
Western Terminus: The EC Rowe Expressway in Windsor. Eastern Terminus: Historically, Highway 2 ends at the PQ border where the road becomes Route 338. More recently Highway 2 ended at the Highway 34/401 interchange near South Lancaster. Length: Multiplexes: Obviously, there aren't any multiplexes along Highway 2 at present. Before downloading however, Highway 2 was mulitplexed with Highway 40, Highway 4, Highway 19, Highway 59, Highway 24, Highway 53, Highway 8, Highway 6, Highway 33, Highway 62, Highway 49, and Highway 138. Freeway: No AADT (1994): Highest: 31 000 between the East and West junctions of Highway 9 near Orangeville; Lowest: 4 800 from Markdale North Limits to Chatsworth South Limits. Road Info: Highway 2 is a very diverse highway. At times it is a very modern four lane divided or undivided highway with partially paved shoulders. Other times, the highway is a narrow poorly designed road with little in the way of shoulders. That said, Highway 2 passes through a very substantial part of Southern Ontario. The road is by no means a quick way across the province, but it is in many spots particularly scenic, and a great way to experience small town Ontario. |
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History of Highway
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Because of Highway 2's length I am spitting it into four sections
Page 1 (Windsor - Clarence Street, London) Page 2 (London - QEW, Toronto)
Page 3 (Toronto - Lasalle Causeway, Kingston Page 4 (Kingston - Highway 34, Lancaster)
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Page last updated: December 29th, 2004
Page created: March 12th, 2004