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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 ...
Within the Cities of Toronto and Barrie it is simply either Yonge Street or the sections of various streets the highway followed. [ 106 ] By 1997, the four-laning of Highway 11 reached to approximately 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) north of Highway 60, [ 107 ] where an interchange was built in 1992, [ 108 ] as well as from North Bay south to Powassan ...
Main Street Markham: Major Mackenzie Drive Steeles Avenue Markham Formerly Highway 48 (downloaded in 1997), the road remains Highway 48 north of Major Mackenzie Drive. Continuation of Markham Road in Toronto from Steeles Avenue to Highway 407.
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.
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.
A carpool lot was added at Major Mackenzie Drive at the start of the project. Construction north of Major Mackenzie Drive started in 2017 and was completed in 2021, [ 48 ] while construction south of Major Mackenzie started in 2019 and was scheduled to be completed by the end of August 2024. [ 49 ]
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]
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.