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An empty Highway 401 through Toronto following a series of propane explosions in 2008. On August 10, 2008, following a series of explosions at a propane facility in Toronto, Highway 401 was closed between Highway 400 and Highway 404 as a precautionary measure, the largest closure of the highway in its history. [167]
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, additional freeways were planned or built, including Highway 427 in Toronto, [27] Highway 403 through Mississauga, [28] Highway 410 north to Brampton and Highway 416 to connect Highways 401 and 417. [29] [30] Highway 420 was designated in Niagara Falls, [2] [31] though it had been built as part of the QEW in 1941 ...
King's Highway 401, colloquially referred to as the four-oh-one, opened between December 1947 and August 1956, and was known as the Toronto Bypass at that time. Although it has since been enveloped by suburban development, it still serves as the primary east–west through route in Toronto and the surrounding region.
Black Creek Drive is a limited-access arterial road [2] in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.A four-lane route that runs north–south, it connects Weston Road and Humber Boulevard with Highway 401 via Highway 400, the latter of which it forms a southerly extension.
The interchange to Highway 401 would be completed later. In 1961, one link in the inner ring, the Crosstown, was cancelled by Metro Council, [3] although carried forward by Metro planning officials. Toronto and Metro proposed alternate routes for Highway 400, with Toronto favouring a route along the railway lines.
The Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario linking Toronto with the Niagara Peninsula and Buffalo, New York.The highway begins at the Canada–United States border on the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie and travels 139.1 kilometres (86.4 mi) around the western end of Lake Ontario, ending at Highway 427 as the physical highway continues as the Gardiner ...
The Toronto–Barrie Highway (Highway 400), Trans-Provincial Highway (Highway 401), [24] a short expansion of Highway 7 approaching the Blue Water Bridge in Sarnia (Highway 402), [105] and an expansion of Highway 27 (eventually designated as Highway 427 by the mid-1970s) into part of the Toronto Bypass were all underway or completed by the ...
A map of Ontario's 400-series freeways, with King's Highway 401 in red. Date: 3 March 2010, 03:18 (UTC) Source: Modified from File:Canada_Ontario_location_map.svg.