King's Highway 401 - Images


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Photos shown in this table are arranged from West to East:

Proper Municipality Name Photo Description Photo

Pictures taken from driver's perspective appear offset from centre-line pictures:        

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Continued from Mississauga to North York Images
Yonge Street was part of Highway 11, before it was truncated in Barrie, in 1997.  Click here for Highway 11 images.
City of Toronto Advanced overhead for Yonge Street.  Many of the signs in the west end of Toronto no longer show the former provincial highway numbers on them.

Photo courtesy: Josh Anderchek. Taken: June 9th, 2007.

City of Toronto Both Yonge Street and Avenue Road are still signed with their former provincial route numbers on this overhead sign at the Bayview Avenue interchange.

Photo courtesy: Josh Anderchek. Taken: June 9th, 2007.

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City of Toronto Overhead changeable message sign for Bayview Avenue and Yonge Street.

Photo taken: May 1st, 2006.

City of Toronto Signage for the ramp to Leslie Street in the Don River Valley.

Photo courtesy: Josh Anderchek. Taken: June 9th, 2007.

City of Toronto View looking east towards the 1km advanced sign for the ramp to Highway 404 and the Don Valley Parkway.  Note the lack of exit tab on this sign.  Nothing unique about this sign denotes this as an actual  exit (instead of a core to collector transfer).
Photo taken: November 25th, 2007.

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City of Toronto Advanced sign from the eastbound express to the 404/DVP.

Photo taken: November 25th, 2007.

City of Toronto A winter's night, as scene from the Don Mills Road overpass, on top of the 401.

Photo taken: March 6, 2007.

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City of Toronto View of the 404/DVP interchange from the Don Mills Road overpass.

Photo taken: March 6, 2007.

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City of Toronto Overhead signage for the 404/DVP interchange.

Photo taken: November 25th, 2007.

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Highway 404 heads north to Newmarket, while the Don Valley Parkway goes into Downtown Toronto.  Click here for Highway 404 images, and here for DVP images.
City of Toronto Westbound signage at the Highway 404 transfer.

Photo taken: July 23rd, 2006

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City of Toronto Advanced signage for the quickly approaching Highway 404 transfer.

Photo taken: July 23rd, 2006

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City of Toronto Westbound signage for the 404/DVP from both the Collector and express lanes of the 401.  The 401/404/DVP interchange is the busiest interchange in Canada, serving nearly 600,000 vehicles a day.

Upper photo taken: July 23rd, 2006

Lower photo taken: July, 2007

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City of Toronto The two westbound advanced signs for the 404/DVP interchange.

Upper photo taken: July 23rd, 2006

Lower photo taken: July, 2007

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City of Toronto View looking west from the Victoria Park Avenue overpass towards the large Highway 404/DVP interchange.

Photo taken: May 1st, 2006.

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City of Toronto Easterly view from the Victoria Park Avenue overpass.

Photo taken: May 1st, 2006.

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City of Toronto Exit signage for the ramp from the eastbound collector lanes to Victoria Park Avenue.  Notice the extremely old pull-through signage, it actually predates Ontario's switch to bilingual signs in the early 1990s.
City of Toronto View looking west from the Warden Avenue overpass in Toronto.

Photo taken: May 1st, 2006.

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City of Toronto Easterly view from Warden Avenue of the 401 and Warden Avenue transfers.

Photo taken: May 1st, 2006.

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City of Toronto Advanced signage 6km in advance of the Highway 404 core-collector transfer.  Within Toronto, each express-collector transfer typically services 3 interchanges.

Photo taken: July 23rd, 2006

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City of Toronto First westbound advanced signage for the Highway 404/DVP interchange.

Photo taken: July 23rd, 2006

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City of Toronto View looking west from the Brimley Road overpass at the Brimley Road transfer.

Photo taken: August, 21st, 2006.

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City of Toronto Two views looking eastbound off from the Brimley Road overpass.  The right-most carriageway is the long exit ramp to Progress Avenue and the Scarborough Town Centre.

 

Photos taken: August, 21st, 2006.

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City of Toronto Signage affixed to the McCowan Road overpass for the Markham Road and Nielson Road core to collector transfer.

Photo taken: November 25th, 2007.

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City of Toronto View looking west from the McCowan Road overpass towards Brimley Road.

Photo taken: August, 21st, 2006.

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City of Toronto View looking east from McCowan Road.  Highway 401 passes just north of Scarborough's City Centre, at McCowan Road.

Photo taken: August, 21st, 2006.

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City of Toronto Eastbound signage at the McCowan Road transfer.  This is the first of two consecutive eastbound core to collector transfers.

Photo taken: November 25th, 2007.

City of Toronto Eastbound collector lane signage for the Markham Road interchange.

Photo taken: November 25th, 2007.

Prior to 1998, Highway 48 began its trek northerly to Lake Simcoe from the Highway 401 interchange.  Click here for Highway 48 images.
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