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| City of Mississauga Regional
Municipality of Peel |
Two views of Highway 401 looking east from
Kennedy Road (Mississauga) towards the 401/403/410 interchange.
This interchange is the site where the 18+ lane, 4 carriageway, 401
narrows to a meager, 6+ lane, two carriageway freeway. The top picture
shows a more centralized view, whereas the bottom picture shows the
high-speed flyover to Highway 410 in
greater detail.
Click here to jump to the view looking
westerly from the Kennedy Road overpass.
Upper picture taken: June 24th,
2004. Low-res: 70kb. High-res: 195kb.
Lower picture taken: June 24th, 2004. Size: 55kb. |
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| City of Mississauga Regional
Municipality of Peel |
Signage for the core to collector transfer for the Dixie Road interchange.
Although this ramp to Dixie Road marks the beginning of the short C-D
through Mississauga, there is no signage indicating it as the beginning of
the collector lanes. Presumably this is done because this segment of
collector lanes is disjointed from the main section through Toronto.
Picture taken: March 27th, 2006. Size: 45kb. |
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Highway 410 leads north of Highway 401 into Brampton.
Click here for Highway 410 images.
Highway 403 leads south and west of Highway 401 to Hamilton, Brantford and
eventually meets Highway 401 again in Woodstock.
Click here for Highway 403 images. |
| City of Mississauga Regional
Municipality of Peel |
Signage for the Highway 403 exit along the
westbound express lanes. Picture taken: June 10th, 2006. Size: 35kb. |
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| City of Mississauga Regional
Municipality of Peel |
Advanced signage denoting the
Highway 403 interchange. Picture taken:
June 10th, 2006. Size: 35kb. |
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| City of Mississauga Regional
Municipality of Peel |
A view of the 401/403/410
interchange from Dixie Road. This interchange is 4-levels
high, and contains 7 high-speed flyover ramps. This is even more impressive
considering that the interchange is actually not full access; Movements from
the EB 401 to WB 403 and vice versa are not (as of yet) permitted.
Picture taken: June 24th,
2004. Low-res: 80kb. High-res: 170kb. |
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| City of Mississauga Regional
Municipality of Peel |
Lane signage for
Highway 403 affixed to the Dixie Road overpass. The ramp to the 403
is located roughly 1km upstream of this sign. Picture taken: June 10th,
2006. Size: 35kb. |
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| City of Mississauga Regional
Municipality of Peel |
Highway 401 looking east from Dixie Road. Dixie Road is located at
kilometre marker 346. This picture showcases the widest section of
highway in Ontario. At 18-through lanes this section of Highway 401
accommodates its large volumes of traffic very well.
Picture taken: June 24th, 2004. Low-res: 45kb. High-res: 180kb. |
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| City of Mississauga Regional
Municipality of Peel |
Exit from the eastbound express to Highway 427
and Renforth Drive. Beyond this transfer the collector lanes can no
longer re-access the 401. The 401 has an eight-lane
configuration east of this transfer. Picture taken: March 27th, 2006.
Size: 35kb. |
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| City of Mississauga Regional
Municipality of Peel |
Exit signage for the Highway 427/Renforth
Drive exit. This transfer is a basket-weave as the ramp to Highway 427 and Renforth
Drive passes under the ramp from the eastbound collector lanes to express
lanes.
Picture taken: March 27th, 2006. Size: 35kb. |
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| City of Mississauga Regional
Municipality of Peel |
Looking westerly along Highway 401 from roughly halfway between the Dixie
Road and Renforth Drive interchanges, south of Pearson Airport. Picture taken: September 26th,
2006. Low-res: 55kb. High-res: 195kb. |
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| City of Mississauga Regional
Municipality of Peel |
Diagram sign located well in advance of the
Highway 403 interchange. The
right-most express lane defaults off of the 401 at the
Highway 403 interchange. Picture taken:
June 10th, 2006. Size: 35kb. |
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| City of Mississauga Regional
Municipality of Peel |
Signage for the transfer to Dixie Road and
Highway 410. Picture taken: June 10th, 2006. Size: 35kb. |
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| City of Mississauga Regional
Municipality of Peel |
Advanced signage for the westbound transfer to
the collectors south of the Airport.
Highway 410 bound traffic must use the collectors beyond this point as
Highway 410 is not directly accessible from
the express lanes. Picture taken: June 10th, 2006. Size: 30kb. |
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| City of Mississauga Regional
Municipality of Peel |
Looking west from the Renforth Drive overpass. The complex freeway
ends at this point, as the collector lanes split and head to and from the
427. Highway 401 has 8-through lanes through the Highway 427
interchange. About 5km east of Renforth Drive, the main C-D setup
beings
Picture taken: March 27th, 2006. Size: 60kb. |
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| City of Mississauga Regional
Municipality of Peel |
View looking easterly towards the Highway 427
interchange from the Renforth Drive interchange. Highway 427 runs
parallel parallel to Highway 401 for a short distance, complicating the
interchange between the two freeways.
Picture taken: March 27th, 2006. Low-res: 65kb. High-res: 190kb. |
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Highway 427 is a commuter highway running through
the west end of Etobicoke.
Click here for Highway 427 images. |
| City of Toronto |
Looking easterly along Highway 401 from the
Carlingview Drive overpass. The highspeed ramp from Highway 401
westbound to the southbound 427 runs through the top of this photo. Picture taken: August 13th, 2006.
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| City of Toronto |
Signage approaching the westbound ramp to the
southbound 427. This high-speed ramp
is arguably Ontario's most impressive freeway flyover; the ramp carries
three lanes of traffic at a posted speed limit of 90km/h. Picture taken: June 10th, 2006. Size:
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| City of Toronto |
Advanced signage for the Highway 427
interchange. There is no direct connection between the westbound 401
and Highway 427 north. Westbound
traffic must utilize the
409 to access the northbound
427. Picture taken: June 10th, 2006.
Size: 40kb. |
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| City of Toronto |
Looking west upon the 401 from
Kipling Road in Etobicoke. Highway 401 is 10 lanes from Kipling Avenue
to the Highway 427 interchange. The discontinuity of the C-D
system from Kipling Avenue to Renforth Drive represents the largest
bottleneck on Highway 401. Unfortunately when the 401/427
interchange was completed in the early 1970s the
overpasses were not
constructed long enough to allow a 12-lane 401 to pass through the
interchange.
Picture taken: June 24th, 2004.
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| City of Toronto |
Highway 401 looking east from the
Kipling Road overpass in Etobicoke. Kipling Avenue is a notable spot
on the 401. It is the western end of the (main set) of Core-Distributor
(C-D) lanes. East of Kipling to Brock Road in Pickering, Highway 401
has a minimum of 12-through driving lanes split between 4-carriagways.
Picture taken: June 24th, 2004.
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Highway 409 is a short highway
connecting Highway 401 East to Highway 427 North and Pearson International
Airport.
Click here for Highway 409 images. |
| City of Toronto |
Highway 401 looking west from the Islington Avenue overpass in Etobicoke.
Just east of Islington Avenue the 401 meets Highway 409, The
409 is the main
connector highway to Toronto's Pearson Airport. Also just east of
Islington Avenue, the main set of the core-distributor system ends, where
Highway 401 becomes only 10-lanes westerly to the
427 interchange.
Picture taken: June 24th, 2004. Size: 65kb |
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There is a multiyear construction project ongoing to reconstruct and
widen Highway 401 betwen Highway 409 and Highway 400. Click here for
more information and pictures. |
| City of Toronto |
View looking easterly along Highway 401 from the Islington Avenue overpass.
Notice the braded ramps on the left side of the photo (the westbound lanes),
which links the westbound 401 to Highway 409
and Islington Avenue.
Picture taken: June 24th, 2004. Low-res: 80kb. High-res: 240kb. |
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| City of Toronto |
Highway 401 looking west from the
Weston Road overpass in the west end of Toronto. The construction that
can be seen in between the Eastbound express and collector lanes included
the widening of the EB express lanes by an additional lane from the
409 to 400. This construction
contract has now finished.
Picture taken: June 24th, 2004.
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Highway 400 is Southern Ontario's
major north-south freeway. It leads north from Toronto extending to
Parry Sound.
Click here for Highway 400 images. |
| City of Toronto |
A morning rush hour view of Highway 401 looking west from westbound lanes of
the Basketweave. Notice the three-level Highway 400 interchange in the
background of this photo. The westbound express lanes through the
Highway 400 interchange were being reconstructed at the time this photo was
taken.
Picture taken: July 30th, 2005. Low-res: 45kb. High-res: 165kb. |
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| City of Toronto |
Looking west from the Keele Street overpass. Just out of view in this
photo are both the basket weave and the Highway 400 interchange.
Keele Street is located at kilometre marker 362. Picture taken: May 25th,
2005. Size: 75kb. |
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| City of Toronto |
Looking east from the Keele Street overpass along Highway 401. The
stretch of Highway 401 between the basketweave and the Allen Road was
widened from 12 to 14 lanes over a series of contracts over the past few
years.
Picture taken: May 25th, 2005. Size: 50kb. |
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| City of Toronto |
View looking westerly towards the Allen Road
interchange along Highway 401. The interchange between Highway 401 and
Allen Road (which at that point was known as the Spandina Expressway) was
the first 3-level freeway to freeway interchange completed in Ontario.
The interchange was completed in 1965.
Picture taken: August 25th, 2006. Low-res: 50kb. High-res:
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| City of Toronto |
Looking easterly towards Bathurst Street along
Highway 401. Notice the braided ramp that carries both the express and
collector westbound ramps to the Allen Road interchange. There are
several direct ramp connections between Allen Road and the express lanes.
Picture taken: August 12th, 2006. Low-res: 55kb. High-res:
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| City of Toronto |
Signage along the westbound express for the exit to Allen Road and Yorkdale
Road from the westbound express lanes along the 401. Notice that no
special signage treatment indicating that this ramp does not lead to the
collector lanes, instead leading directly to Allen Road.
Picture taken: July 23rd, 2006. Size: 35kb. |
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| City of Toronto |
Advanced signage for the westbound ramp to Allen
and Yorkdale Roads. Until quite recently, only Allen Road was
indicated on this signage, neglecting the ramp to Yorkdale Road (and
therefore, the popular Yorkdale Mall). It is common for the MTO to
omit ramps to minor and service roads on freeway signage.
Picture taken: July 23rd, 2006. Size: 48kb. |
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| City of Toronto |
This picture shows Highway 401
looking west from the Avenue Road overpass in Toronto. Currently
construction is underway to widen Highway 401 between Hoggs Hollow and Allen
Road from a 12 lane freeway to a 14 lane facility. This is being
accomplished by adding one new through lane in each direction in the
collector lanes. This construction was announced as part of the $401
million dollars for Highway 401 and was announced by the previous
government.
Picture taken: July 23rd, 2004.
Size: 40kb. |
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Highway 11A was downloaded in 1997, but served as a
useful alternate to Highway 11 into Downtown. Click here for Highway
11A images (Coming Soon!) |
| City of Toronto |
This picture shows Highway 401
looking east from the Avenue Road (Highway 11A) overpass in North York.
This section of Highway 401 was the first part of the Toronto
Bypass to be rebuilt as a 12 lane C-D facility. At first, only 1mile
of Highway 401 was a
12 lane facility from the Avenue Road interchange, easterly, for about 1
mile. This was of course part of a much larger series of contracts
that saw 17 miles of Highway 401 12-laned from Islington Avenue to
Highway
48.
Picture taken: July 23rd, 2004.
Size: 55kb. |
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| City of Toronto |
View looking westerly from the west end of the Hoggs Hollow bridge towards
the Avenue Road interchange. This small stretch of Highway 401 is very
noteworthy, since it is the only section of Highway 401 to still have
vintage guiderail and lighting across the entire width of the highway. Picture taken:
May 26th, 2007.
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| City of Toronto |
This view looks easterly into the early morning sun across the Hogg's Hollow
Bridges. 4-high level bridges carry Highway 401 overtop of this large
valley. When this picture was taken, the structure carrying the
eastbound collector lanes is being rehabilitated. During construction,
both eastbound collector and express lanes are using the express lane
structure. Picture taken: May
26th, 2007.
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