NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Highway 404 (Ontario)

The King's Highway 404 or simply Highway 404 is an Ontario 400-Series Highway that runs from the junction of Highway 401 and the Don Valley Parkway in Toronto to its northern terminus at Green Lane/Herald Road in Newmarket. The highway mainly serves as a commuter road for those working in Toronto but living in the northern suburbs of the city. As it forms Toronto's only complete north-south freeway besides Highway 427, Highway 404 is among the busiest freeways for its size. Image File history File links Ontario_404. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (971x611, 22 KB) Route Map, Highway 404 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Image:Toronto, Ontario Location. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English (de facto) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seats - Senate seats 106 24 Area Total - Land - Water (% of total) Ranked 4th 1,076... Map showing Newmarkets location in York Region Newmarket is a town located approximately 45 km north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English (de facto) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seats - Senate seats 106 24 Area Total - Land - Water (% of total) Ranked 4th 1,076... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Image:Toronto, Ontario Location. ... Markham is located in York Region, directly north of Toronto. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 Ã— 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2816 Ã— 2112 pixel, file size: 2. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 Ã— 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2816 Ã— 2112 pixel, file size: 2. ... A permanent, separated high-occupancy vehicle lane on I-91 in Connecticut A high occupancy vehicle (or HOV) is any vehicle with a driver and one or more (or sometimes two or more, or three or more) passengers. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English (de facto) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seats - Senate seats 106 24 Area Total - Land - Water (% of total) Ranked 4th 1,076... The 400-series Highway network in Southern Ontario. ... The Kings Highway No. ... Don Valley Parkway, looking northbound, in typical rush-hour traffic The Don Valley Parkway (often referred to as the DVP or simply as The Parkway) is a controlled-access six-lane freeway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, so named because it runs through the scenic Don River Valley. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Image:Toronto, Ontario Location. ... Map showing Newmarkets location in York Region Newmarket is a town located approximately 45 km north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Highway 427 as part of the 400-series network Highway 427 is a 400-Series Highway in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada, that runs from immediately south of the Queen Elizabeth Way/Gardiner Expressway interchange (its exact southern terminus is on the Browns Line at Coules Court...

Construction

Originally an extension of the Don Valley Parkway and incorporating the routing of Woodbine Avenue, Highway 404 became a provincial highway (and was completed by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation) in 1977. The outdated interchange with Highway 401, built in the late 1960s along with the Highway 401 expansion project, remains a major bottleneck especially for southbound traffic. Initially, Highway 404 was completed from 401 to Steeles Avenue with six lanes. At the time, it had features atypical of 1970s provincial urban freeways, notably its grass median with a steel box-beam barrier and its conventional shaded high-pressure sodium lighting system, rather than the more common metal guardrail and mercury truss lights. North of Steeles Avenue, Highway 404 became a four-lane rural freeway. Don Valley Parkway, looking northbound, in typical rush-hour traffic The Don Valley Parkway (often referred to as the DVP or simply as The Parkway) is a controlled-access six-lane freeway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, so named because it runs through the scenic Don River Valley. ... Woodbine Avenue is a north south route in Toronto and Markham. ... Ministry of Transportation Headquarters in St. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... The Kings Highway No. ... The Kings Highway No. ... Steeles Avenue, near its intersection with Warden Avenue. ...

Upgrades and future extensions

In the late 1990s, Highway 404 underwent a major reconstruction with the earliest projects centring around the new Highway 407. Subsequently, the grass median and conventional lighting system was replaced with a tall-wall concrete barrier, high-mast lighting, and two additional lanes per direction from Highway 401 to Highway 407. North of Highway 407, Highway 404 was widened to six lanes all the way to Aurora Road, and the lighting system had been extended all the way to Major Mackenzie Drive. Ramps serving 404 northbound were added to the existing partial interchange with 16th Avenue in 2002, and in 2003-2004, a new interchange was constructed with Elgin Mills Road. Highway 407, officially called the 407 Express Toll Route (ETR), is a tollway located in southern Ontario Canadas Greater Toronto Area. ... Major Mackenzie Drive is a major arterial road running east to west in northern York Region. ...

Running parallel to Highway 400 approximately 15 kilometres (9.5 mi) to the west, the 404 extends 36 kilometres (22 mi) north-south. The MTO plans to further extend the 404 northerly (and then easterly) to Highway 12 (Beaverton area), to better serve commuters and to provide an alternate highway link into Ontario's "cottage country". On May 16, 2006 the MTO announced plans to extend the highway 15 kilometres further north from Green Lane to Ravenshoe Rd. at the south end of Keswick. Construction is expected to commence sometime in 2007 with completion slated for 2011. This extension was confirmed by the Ministry of Transportation on March 5, 2007 Highway 400 as part of the 400-series network The Kings Highway 400, more commonly known as Highway 400 or the 400, is a key north-south 400-Series Highway linking Toronto to Central and Northern Ontario. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer) (symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). ... A mile is any of several units of distance, or, in physics terminology, of length. ... Ministry of Transportation Headquarters in St. ... Cottage country is a common name in Canada for areas that are popular locations for recreational properties such as cottages and summer homes. ... Ministry of Transportation Headquarters in St. ... March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ...

Highway 404 has 14 interchanges along its entire length, mostly of the Parclo A4 type. The fact that the exit numbers start at 17 suggest that the Don Valley Parkway was included in distance calculations when signing the exits, although there are no exit numbers posted on the Don Valley Parkway. The parclo interchange (short for partial cloverleaf interchange) is a successor to the cloverleaf interchange. ...

A Northbound HOV Lane is being built between Don Valley Parkway/Highway 401 and Beaver Creek (To Match The southbound Lane). It is slated to open during the summer of 2007. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Don Valley Parkway, looking northbound, in typical rush-hour traffic The Don Valley Parkway (often referred to as the DVP or simply as The Parkway) is a controlled-access six-lane freeway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, so named because it runs through the scenic Don River Valley. ... The Kings Highway No. ...

HOV lanes

HOV lanes similar to those on Highway 403 in Peel Region have been added to the 404 from Highway 407 ETR southwards to the Highway 401. Image File history File links 160_hov_051213. ... Image File history File links 160_hov_051213. ... A permanent, separated high-occupancy vehicle lane on I-91 in Connecticut A high occupancy vehicle (or HOV) is any vehicle with a driver and one or more (or sometimes two or more, or three or more) passengers. ... Highway 403 as part of the 400-series network Highway 403 is a 400-Series Highway in Ontario, Canada that extends 126 km (78. ... Motto: Working for you Area: 1,241. ... Highway 407, officially called the 407 Express Toll Route (ETR), is a tollway located in southern Ontario Canadas Greater Toronto Area. ... The Kings Highway No. ...

The first projects commenced in the late 1990s and involved the construction of the Highway 407 interchange and the widening of the Highway 7 junction to incorporate the HOV lanes, although the extra pavement was blocked off and remained unused for over five years.

The next stage of HOV construction was the widening of the freeway from Highway 401 to just north of Steeles Avenue using the median, in 1999-2001, along with improved ramps from 401 eastbound to 404 northbound. The new left lanes served general purpose traffic for the interim, while stretch of Highway 404 from Sheppard Avenue to Steeles Avenue was widened using the right shoulder to provide additional lanes for general purpose traffic. Once this was completed, the left-most lanes were converted to HOV lanes.

Construction for the southbound HOV lane began in early 2004, including an underpass tunnel to 401 west, and was opened in November 2005. Shortly afterwards, work on the northbound HOV lane was initiated. There will likely be extensions to the HOV lanes north of Highway 7.

Since traffic congestion is warranting the addition of HOV lanes, people often compare the name of this highway to the 404 errors that occur on the internet when traffic abruptly halts at a dead-end ^[1]. Mozilla Firefox displaying an Apache HTTP Server 404 error page. ...

Volume information (2005)

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Lane configurations from south to north

The Kings Highway No. ... The Kings Highway No. ... Sheppard Avenue is an east-west arterial road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, centering on the former city of North York. ... Don Valley Parkway, looking northbound, in typical rush-hour traffic The Don Valley Parkway (often referred to as the DVP or simply as The Parkway) is a controlled-access six-lane freeway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, so named because it runs through the scenic Don River Valley. ... A permanent, separated high-occupancy vehicle lane on I-91 in Connecticut A high occupancy vehicle (or HOV) is a transportation engineering and transportation planning term referring to a vehicle with a driver and one or more passengers. ... The Kings Highway No. ... Don Valley Parkway, looking northbound, in typical rush-hour traffic The Don Valley Parkway (often referred to as the DVP or simply as The Parkway) is a controlled-access six-lane freeway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, so named because it runs through the scenic Don River Valley. ... A permanent, separated high-occupancy vehicle lane on I-91 in Connecticut A high occupancy vehicle (or HOV) is a transportation engineering and transportation planning term referring to a vehicle with a driver and one or more passengers. ... A permanent, separated high-occupancy vehicle lane on I-91 in Connecticut A high occupancy vehicle (or HOV) is a transportation engineering and transportation planning term referring to a vehicle with a driver and one or more passengers. ... A permanent, separated high-occupancy vehicle lane on I-91 in Connecticut A high occupancy vehicle (or HOV) is a transportation engineering and transportation planning term referring to a vehicle with a driver and one or more passengers. ... Highway 407, officially called the 407 Express Toll Route (ETR), is a tollway located in southern Ontario Canadas Greater Toronto Area. ... A permanent, separated high-occupancy vehicle lane on I-91 in Connecticut A high occupancy vehicle (or HOV) is a transportation engineering and transportation planning term referring to a vehicle with a driver and one or more passengers. ... A permanent, separated high-occupancy vehicle lane on I-91 in Connecticut A high occupancy vehicle (or HOV) is a transportation engineering and transportation planning term referring to a vehicle with a driver and one or more passengers. ... Highway 407, officially called the 407 Express Toll Route (ETR), is a tollway located in southern Ontario Canadas Greater Toronto Area. ... The Kings Highway No. ... The Kings Highway No. ... A permanent, separated high-occupancy vehicle lane on I-91 in Connecticut A high occupancy vehicle (or HOV) is a transportation engineering and transportation planning term referring to a vehicle with a driver and one or more passengers. ... A permanent, separated high-occupancy vehicle lane on I-91 in Connecticut A high occupancy vehicle (or HOV) is a transportation engineering and transportation planning term referring to a vehicle with a driver and one or more passengers. ... A permanent, separated high-occupancy vehicle lane on I-91 in Connecticut A high occupancy vehicle (or HOV) is a transportation engineering and transportation planning term referring to a vehicle with a driver and one or more passengers. ...

Interchanges from south to north

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Planned interchanges from south to north (exit numbers assumed)

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References

Categories: 400-series highways in Ontario | Highways in York Region March 22 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (82nd in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Globe and Mail is a large English language national newspaper based in Toronto, Canada, and printed in seven cities across Canada. ... The 400-series Highway network in Southern Ontario. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English (de facto) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seats - Senate seats 106 24 Area Total - Land - Water (% of total) Ranked 4th 1,076... Highway 400 as part of the 400-series network The Kings Highway 400, more commonly known as Highway 400 or the 400, is a key north-south 400-Series Highway linking Toronto to Central and Northern Ontario. ... The Kings Highway No. ... Highway 402 as part of the 400-series network Highway 402 is a 400-Series Highway in southwestern Ontario, Canada that runs 103 km (64 miles) from the Blue Water Bridge in Point Edward (a suburb of Sarnia) and Highway 401 in London. ... Highway 403 as part of the 400-series network Highway 403 is a 400-Series Highway in Ontario, Canada that extends 126 km (78. ... Image:Highway-405. ... Highway 406 as part of the 400-series network Highway 406 near downtown St. ... Highway 407, officially called the 407 Express Toll Route (ETR), is a tollway located in southern Ontario Canadas Greater Toronto Area. ... Highway 409 as part of the 400-series network Looking west on the 409 just east of the Highway 427 junction Highway 409 is an Ontario provincial 400-Series expressway that runs from the 401 in Toronto to Toronto Pearson International Airport, west of Highway 427, in Mississauga. ... Highway 410 is a 400-Series Highway in Ontario, Canada that connects Highway 401 and Highway 403 to Torontos northern suburbs, specifically Brampton and Caledon. ... Highway 416 as part of the 400-series network Highway 416, named the Veterans Memorial Highway, is a 400-Series Highway in eastern Ontario that provides connection between Highway 417 in Ottawa and Highway 401 near Prescott. ... Highway 417 as part of the 400-series network Highway 417 is a 400-Series Highway in Ontario. ... Highway 420 as part of the 400-series network Highway 420 is a 400-Series Highway in Ontario, Canada. ... Highway 427 as part of the 400-series network Highway 427 is a 400-Series Highway in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada, that runs from immediately south of the Queen Elizabeth Way/Gardiner Expressway interchange (its exact southern terminus is on the Browns Line at Coules Court... The Queen Elizabeth Way (commonly referred to as the QEW, Q, QE, or Queen-E) is a vital 400-Series freeway in Ontario, Canada. ... Image File history File links Ontario_401. ... Highway 424 is a proposed 400-Series Highway in the Canadian province of Ontario, which would connect Highway 401 at Cambridge to Highway 403 at Brantford along the current Highway 24 corridor. ... The Mid-Peninsula Highway is a proposed freeway in the Niagara Peninsula to serve as a bypass of the Queen Elizabeth Way. ... No designation determined at this time, but may receive a designation of 413, 414, 488, or simply be extensions of 404 and 427 Year: 2012 Planned Western Terminus: Highway 400 near Bradford, or Highway 427 near Bond Head. ... This is a list of provincial highways in Ontario, Canada. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with 400-Series Highway. ...

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