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Before 1998 Highway 48 began its
trek east towards Uxbridge and Highway 12 at this junction.
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47 images. |
| Town of Whitchurch- Stouffville
Regional Municipality of York |
View looking southerly along Highway 48 as it
approaches the Bloomington Road intersection. For a brief period in
time in the 1990s, this intersection was the western terminus of
Highway 47. Picture taken: May 27th, 2006.
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| Town of Whitchurch- Stouffville
Regional Municipality of York |
View looking southerly along a gentle reversing
curve just south of Ballantrae. Picture taken: May 27th, 2006.
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| Town of Whitchurch- Stouffville
Regional Municipality of York |
Looking north through Ballantrae towards the
Aurora Road intersection. Picture taken: May 27th, 2006. Low-res:
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| Town of Whitchurch- Stouffville
Regional Municipality of York |
Looking south towards Ballantrae and the Aurora
Road intersection. Highway 48's speed limit drops to 60km/h through
the small community. This is the first speed limit reduction north of
Markham. Picture taken: May 27th, 2006. Low-res: 60kb.
High-res: 240kb. |
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| Town of Whitchurch- Stouffville
Regional Municipality of York |
View looking northerly along Highway 48 from
north of Ballantrae towards the St. John's Sideroad intersection.
Highway 48 is passing through the Oak Ridges Moraine through this part of
Stouffville. Picture taken: May 27th, 2006. Low-res: 55kb.
High-res: 220kb. |
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| Town of Whitchurch- Stouffville
Regional Municipality of York |
A view looking northerly along Highway 48 from
north of St. John's Sideroad. Picture taken: May 27th, 2006.
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| Town of Whitchurch- Stouffville
Regional Municipality of York |
A view looking north towards the Vivian Road
intersection. This is one of the few signalized intersections along
Highway 48 in York Region, where the approaches to the traffic signal have
not been four-laned. Picture taken: May 27th, 2006. Low-res: 55kb.
High-res: 200kb. |
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| Town of East Gwillimbury
Regional Municipality of York |
Looking south at the Vivian Road intersection.
Picture taken: May 27th, 2006. Low-res: 50kb. High-res: 205kb. |
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| Town of Georgina Regional
Municipality of York |
Looking northerly through the small community of
Baldwin. Baldwin is very small and is a very short community to pass
through. Picture taken: August 8th, 2005. Size: 60kb. |
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| Town of Georgina Regional
Municipality of York |
Looking north towards the High Street
intersection near Sutton. At this intersection, Highway 48 abruptly
curves to the east as the highway has finally reached Lake Simcoe on its
journey from Toronto. Picture taken: August 8th, 2005. Size: 50kb. |
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| Town of Georgina Regional
Municipality of York |
Looking southerly at the High Street intersection. High Street is the
main access to the community of Sutton from Highway 48. High Street is
located roughly 12km west of the Highway 12
junction. Picture taken: August 8th, 2005. Size: 50kb. |
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| Town of Georgina Regional
Municipality of York |
Looking northbound (east) towards the Park Road
intersection. Park Road serves as an important access to the Lake
Simcoe cottage area near Sutton, as well as Sibbald Point Provincial Park.
Picture taken: August 8th, 2005. Size: 50kb. |
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| Town of Georgina Regional
Municipality of York |
Looking southbound (west) towards the Park Road intersection. Park
Road is located roughly 20km west of Highway 12.
Picture taken: August 8th, 2005. Size: 50kb. |
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| Town of Georgina Regional
Municipality of York |
Looking northbound (east) through the community
of Virginia. The highway has a four-lane cross section through
Virginia that is marked as a passing lane in both directions. The
highway's speed limit is 60km/h through the community, which because of the
passing lane, is rather strongly enforced by the OPP.
Picture taken: August 8th, 2005. Size: 60kb. |
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| Town of Georgina Regional
Municipality of York |
Looking southbound (west) towards the signalized intersection with Pefferlaw
Road. This is one of the few signalized intersections along this
portion of Highway 48 that does not have a passing/queing lane. Picture
taken: August 8th, 2005. Size: 50kb. |
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| Town of Georgina Regional
Municipality of York |
Looking northbound (east) from the CNR towards
the Lake Ridge Road intersection. Interestingly, before the Beaverton
By-pass opened in 1966, Highway 48 followed the alignment of today's Durham
Road 23 (Lake Ridge Road), northerly into Beaverton, where it met Highway 12
Downtown.
Picture taken: August 8th, 2005. Size: 50kb. |
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| Township of Brock Regional
Municipality of Durham |
Looking southbound (west) along Highway 48
towards the Lake Ridge Road junction. Lake Ridge Road is located
roughly 9km west of the (current) Highway 12
junction. Picture taken: August 8th, 2005. Size: 60kb. |
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| Township of Brock Regional
Municipality of Durham |
Looking northbound (east) along Highway 48 towards the Brock Road 17
intersection. Interestingly, Brock Road 17 is the original alignment
of Highway 12 into Beaverton. This
situation lasted until the Beaverton Bypass was completed in November 1966
around the east side of Beaverton.
Picture taken: August 8th, 2005. Size: 50kb. |
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| Township of Brock Regional
Municipality of Durham |
Looking northbound (east) along Highway 48
towards the Highway 12 junction. Since
1998, this junction has marked the northern terminus of Highway 48, however
before 1998, Highway 48 continued northerly concurrent with Highway 12
towards Highway 35 at Coboconk.
Picture taken: June 1st, 2005. Size: 50kb. |
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