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| Township of Perth East County
of Perth |
Highway 7/8 looking west from the Highway 59
intersection in Shakespeare. Highway 7/8is a conventional Highway
from Stratford to the end of the New Hamburg bypass. Picture taken: August 1st, 2004. Size:
70kb. |
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| Township of Perth East County
of Perth |
This picture shows Highway
7/8 looking west from
the Waterloo Road 1 intersection at the end of the New Hamburg Bypass.
West of the New Hamburg Bypass, Highway 7/8 is simply a conventional 2-lane
highway with driveway access.
Picture taken: August 1st, 2004. Size: 50kb. |
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| Township of Wilmot Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
Highway 7/8 looking west towards Peel Road from
Victoria Street on the New Hamburg Bypass. The new Hamburg bypass is a
4-lane semi-divided at-grade expressway with a posted speed limit of 80km/h.
This is a very typical looking cross-section.
Picture taken: August 1st,
2004. Size: 70kb. |
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| Township of Wilmot Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
This picture is looking west off of the Waterloo
Road 12 overpass west of the city of Kitchener. Before the mid-1990s
the 4-lane divided expressway ended at this interchange, only to restart as
an at grade 4-lane undivided expressway a few kilometres west near New
Hamburg.
Picture taken: April 16th, 2004. Size: 60kb. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
This photo shows Highway
7/8 looking west from
the Fisher-Hallman Road overpass in Kitchener. The carriageways split
in the foreground only to rejoin a short distance later, the only reason
that I can think of for why the carriages way split and rejoin in this
fashion, is that in the early 1990s the divided Highway
7/8 ended here.
Picture taken: April 16th, 2004. Size: 75kb |
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City of Kitchener Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
Highway
7/8 looking west towards the Courtland
Avenue. interchange from the pedestrian overpass just east of Courtland
Avenue. West of Courtland Avenue, Highway
7/8 has a 4-lane cross-section westerly to
New Hamburg.
Picture taken: September 18th, 2005. Size: 45kb. |
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City of Kitchener Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
Highway
7/8 looking east from the same pedestrian
overpass as the previous picture. The Highway
7/8 interchange is located about 500m east of
this overpass. Highway
7/8 has a 6-lane cross section between
Courtland Avenue and Highway 7-East.
Picture taken: September 18th, 2005. Size: 45kb. |
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City of Kitchener Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
The advanced signage for the Highway 8 split
from the Conestoga heading eastbound. Highway 8 leads currently leads
to Highway 401. Before provincial downloading, Highway 8 continued
eastwards through Cambridge and into Hamilton.
Picture taken: August 1st,
2004. Size: 45kb. |
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City of Kitchener Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
At the eastern Highway
7/8 split the left three
most lanes continue eastbound for Highway 7 (and towards Highway 85).
Highway 8 departs to the Highway 8 freeway via a directional ramp posted at
50km/h. Click here to continue eastwards on Highway
7 towards Guelph
Picture taken: August 1st, 2004. Size: 30kb. |
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City of Kitchener Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
Highway 8 driving west at the King Street exit.
At King Street, Highway 8 departs the current freeway alignment heading to
the Conestoga Parkway via a loop ramp. King Street leads travelers
into Downtown Kitchener, and is the former route of Highway 8 before the
Conestoga Parkway was constructed in the late 1960s.
Picture taken: September 18th, 2005. Size: 45kb. |
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City of Kitchener Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
Signage located at the eastbound
Highway 7 split from the Highway 8 freeway.
Highway 7 leads traffic to Guelph and Highway
85 (Highway 85 in turn leads traffic to Waterloo). Click
here for Highway 7 images. Picture taken: September 18th, 2005. Size: 35kb. |
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City of Kitchener Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
Looking west along Highway 8 from the Franklin
Street overpass. This picture shows the Highway
7/8 interchange in
good detail. The Highway 7/8
interchange was extensively reconstructed as part of a multi-year
construction project completed in 2004. Before this reconstruction,
this interchange was a very substandard half-clo design.
Picture taken: September 18th, 2005. Size: 40kb. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
Highway 8 looking east from the Franklin Street
overpass. As visible from the photo, Highway 8 has a brief depressed
section at Franklin Street. Just east of Franklin Street Highway 8
narrows from 8- to 4-lanes. Currently, the MTO is in the planning
stages of a series of projects that will see Highway 8 to 8-laned
easterly to Highway 401.
Picture taken: September 18th, 2005. Size: 40kb. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
Advanced signage for the upcoming Highway
7/8 interchange located just east of the
Franklin Road overpass. Picture taken: September 18th, 2005. Size:
45kb. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
Approaching the Highway 7 interchange along
Highway 8. This diagramical sign has to be one of the most complicated
signs currently installed along an Ontario freeway. Picture taken:
September 18th, 2005. Size: 35kb. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
Looking west along Highway 8 across the Grand
River Bridge. The section of freeway across the Grand River between
King Street and Fairway Drive is known as the Freeport Diversion. This
diversion was constructed in 1963 to by-pass the community of Freeport and a
long concrete bowstring bridge, and remains virtually unaltered to this day.
Picture taken: September 24th, 2005. Size: 65kb. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
Driving east along Highway 8 approaching Highway
7187. At this interchange, Highway 8 departs the freeway section and
follows King Street to the 401, and into Cambridge. Although commonly
referred to as Highway 8, Highway 7187 carries freeway traffic bound for the
eastbound 401. (Travelers bound for
the westbound 401 must exit the freeway here).
Picture taken: September 24th, 2005. Size: 40kb. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
Looking west towards Highway 8 across the
Freeport Diversion. The dual structures carrying the freeway over King
Street were constructed in 1987 as part of the larger project to construct a
freeway between the Freeport Diversion and Highway 401
(Hwy 7187). Before 1987, the Freeport Diversion met King Street at an
at-grade intersection.
Picture taken: September 24th, 2005. Size: 75kb. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
A wider angled perspective of the previous
picture. This picture shows a good portion of the Freeport Diversion,
as well as a portion of King Street which carried Highway 8 before the
Freeport Diversion was constructed in 1963.
Picture taken: September 24th, 2005. Size: 85kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
View looking easterly towards the current
eastern terminus of Highway 8 at the Highway 5
junction at Peters Corners. This junction also marks the current
western terminus of Highway 5. Straight ahead, Hamilton Road 8
continues east through Dundas into Downtown Hamilton.
Picture taken: May 5th, 2005. Size: 35kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
View looking easterly towards Highway 8's
descent down the Niagara Escarpment into Downtown Dundas. Picture taken:
March 28th, 2007. Size: 125kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
View closer to the mountain brow along Highway
8. At the mountain brow, Highway 8 has a sharp curve and quickly
begins to descend the escarpment via a steep access. This curve has a
posted advisory speed of 20km/h.
Picture taken: March 28th, 2007. Low-res: 95kb. High-res: 385kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
View looking east from the top of the escarpment
looking towards Dundas. Note the stone wall that guide rail on the
right side of the photo. The City of Hamilton recently rehabilitated
this stone wall paying careful attention to replicate the wall's ornate
detailing.
Picture taken: March 28th, 2007. Low-res: 90kb. High-res: 380kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Looking east again down the escarpment access.
Highway 8 passes under the CN mainline railway halfway down the escarpment
through a narrow subway. Picture taken: March 28th, 2007. Low-res:
90kb. High-res: 350kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Another view of Highway 8 descending the
escarpment access, this time showing the sharp curve traffic needs to
negotiate to pass under the railway overhead. Picture taken: March 28th,
2007. Low-res: 90kb. High-res: 355kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Eastbound view through the CN railway overhead.
Picture taken: March 28th, 2007. Low-res: 75kb. High-res: 320kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
View looking west through the CN railway
overhead. Note the close proximity of the intersection to the railway
overhead. Vehicles departing this side road must do so with the utmost
care. Picture taken: March 28th, 2007. Low-res: 100kb.
High-res: 415kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
View of Highway 8 ascending the escarpment from
the railway tracks. Picture taken: March 28th, 2007. Low-res: 95kb.
High-res: 385kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Looking east from just east of the railway
overhead as Highway 8 finishes its descent down the mountain into Dundas.
Picture taken: March 28th, 2007. Size: 85kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Green signage for the western Highway
2/8 junction in Hamilton. Click here
for Highway 2 images (Coming Soon!). Picture size: 40kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Westbound signage for the Highway
2/8 intersection. Click here for
Highway 2 images (Coming Soon!). Picture size: 25kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Highway 2/8 signage in Westdale. Like
other Highway 2/8 shield assemblies, this
sign has been replaced with a Hamilton Road 8 flowerpot. Picture size:
30kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Butterfly gantry displaying Highway
2/8 signs along with
Highway 403 signage at the ramp to Highway
403 east. This sign was replaced early in 2007, and highlight King
Street as Hamilton Road 8 rather than Highway 2/8.
Click here for
Highway 403 images.
Picture size: 75kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Eastbound signage for the eastern Highway
2/8 junction. Click here for Highway 2
images. (Coming Soon!). Picture size: 30kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Westbound signage for the eastern Highway
2/8 junction. Click here for Highway 2
images (Coming Soon!). Picture size: 30kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Main Street eastbound from just east of Queen
Street in Hamilton. Picture taken: March 9th, 2008. |
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| City of Hamilton |
View of Main Street looking east towards MacNab
and James Streets. Picture taken: March 9th, 2008. |
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