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The road is still referred to as Davis Drive east into Durham Region. the section west of Yonge Street was formerly part of Highway 9 before being downloaded to the region, although west of Highway 400 the road remains Highway 9. Named for the Davis Leather Company (moved to area by Andrew Davis, son of the founder of Lowell Tannery of King ...
Major Mackenzie Drive, often shortened to Major Mac, [2] [3] is a major east-west arterial road in southern York Region, Ontario, Canada, just north of Toronto.It is a York regional road, numbered as York Regional Road 25, and passes through the three cities of southern York Region: Vaughan, Ontario, Richmond Hill, and Markham.
Construction of the Yonge Street portion of the network began in 2014. [1] The Rapidway is primarily used by the Viva Blue service. The Yonge Street Rapidway is central to the Vivanext transport masterplan and will eventually extend from the Richmond Hill/Langstaff Urban Growth Centre at Highway 7 to Green Lane in East Gwillimbury. [2]
Yonge Street was formerly a part of Highway 11, which led to claims that Yonge Street was the longest street in the world. [33] Running (mostly) concurrent with Yonge as far north as Barrie, then continuing beyond through central and northern Ontario to the Ontario– Minnesota border at Rainy River , the highway was over 1,896 kilometres ...
The MTO formally announced plans to alleviate traffic in Newmarket on August 28, 2000: a three contract project to widen and extend Highway 404. The first contract added an additional lane in each direction in the grass median from Major Mackenzie Drive to Bloomington Road. A second contract then extended those two lanes north to Aurora Sideroad.
The section between Highway 401 and the then-unopened Highway 407 interchange was turned over to the Region of York and the City of Toronto on April 1, 1995, and is known as Markham Road south of Highway 407, and Main Street thereafter to Sixteenth Avenue, where the name Markham Road resumes for 2 km (1.2 mi) until Major Mackenzie Drive.
Most of King's Highway 427 travels within Toronto from Browns Line to Steeles Avenue, but it has been extended beyond current city limits to Major Mackenzie Drive.It was initially constructed to Highway 401 from 1953 to 1956 as the Toronto Bypass, then extended to Pearson Airport as the Airport Expressway from 1964 to 1971, and finally designated as Highway 427 in 1972.
Major Mackenzie Weldrick 16th–Carrville Bantry–Scott Richmond Hill Centre: Langstaff GO. Highway 7 Rapidway. Yonge North extension. This is a route-map template ...