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Highway 404 ends at Highway 401.
Click here for Highway 401 images. |
| City of Toronto |
Signage at the southbound end of Highway 404 at the transition to Toronto's
Don Valley Parkway. Technically speaking the 404 extends about 200m
south of the Highway 401 interchange. Photo taken: April 29th, 2004. Low-res:
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| City of Toronto |
View looking southerly towards the Highway 401 overpass from Sheppard
Avenue. A short C-D was constructed in the vicinity of Sheppard Avenue
between 2002 and 2007 to improve traffic flow between the very closely
spaced Highway 401 and Sheppard Avenue interchanges.
Photo taken: May 15th, 2008. |
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| City of Toronto |
Northerly view of Highway 404 from Sheppard Avenue. Through Toronto,
Highway 404 has an 8+2-HOV lane configuration. Photo taken: May 15th,
2008. |
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| City of Toronto |
Overhead signs mounted to the Sheppard Avenue overpass. Note the use
of blue signage for the short collector lane that links the Sheppard Avenue
on-ramp to the Highway 401 off-ramp. Photo taken: April 29th, 2004. Low-res:
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| City of Toronto |
Overhead signage for the ramp to Highway 401. Highway 401 is the
southernmost interchange along Highway 404. Photo taken: April 29th, 2004. Low-res:
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| City of Toronto |
Overhead signage, this time for the southbound off-ramp to Sheppard Avenue.
The Sheppard Avenue interchange is located extremely close to the large
Highway 401 interchange. Ontario highway designers tend not to locate
interchanges in such close proximity to each other on newer highways since
tight interchange spacing is often a major factor in highway congestion.
Photo taken: April 29th, 2004. Low-res: 65kb. High-res: 195kb. |
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| City of Toronto |
Looking south from Van Horne Avenue. Photo taken: May 15th, 2008. |
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| City of Toronto |
The northbound HOV lane begins about halfway between the VanHorne and Finch
Avenue overpasses. Photo taken: May 15th, 2008. |
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| City of Toronto |
Overhead signs affixed to the Van Horne Avenue overpass. Photo taken:
April 29th, 2004. Low-res: 70kb. |
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| City of Toronto |
Overhead guide signage marking the northbound start of the HOV lane south of
Finch Avenue. The northbound HOV lane along the 404 opened July 23rd,
2007, about 8 months after the southbound HOV lane started carrying traffic.
Picture taken: July 23rd, 2007. Low-res: 40kb. High-res: 120kb. |
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| City of Toronto |
Southbound from the Finch Avenue overpass. Photo taken: May 15th, 2008. |
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| City of Toronto |
View looking northerly from the Finch Avenue overpass. Notice the
shielding in the high-mast luminare -- shielding is intended to reduce light
pollution, keeping light centred over MTO's Right of way. Photo taken: May 15th, 2008. |
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| City of Toronto |
Southbound signage at the off-ramp to Finch Avenue. Notice that HOV
traffic destined for Highway 401 east must exit the HOV lane here to use the
mainline ramp to the 401. There is a direct ramp linking the
southbound 404 to Highway 401 west.
Photo taken: April 29th, 2004. Low-res: 65kb. High-res: 195kb. |
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| City of Toronto |
View looking south from McNichol Avenue. Photo taken: May 15th, 2008. |
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| City of Toronto |
Notherly view from McNichol of the Steeles/Woodbine Avenue interchange.
In Toronto, Highway 404 is constructed overtop of Woodbine Avenue's former
alignment. Photo taken: May 15th, 2008. |
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| City of Toronto |
Overhead signage this time affixed to the McNichol Avenue overpass. Photo taken:
April 29th, 2004. Low-res: 50kb. High-res: 185kb. |
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| Town of Markham Regional
Municipality of York |
Two views looking south from the John Street overpass in Markham. Note
the ground mounted sign for Steeles Avenue -- few ground mounted signs exist
south of Highway 7 near Toronto.
Top Picture taken: July 23rd, 2007. Low-res: 40kb. High-res:
140kb.
Bottom Picture taken: July 23rd, 2007. Low-res: 30kb.
High-res: 110kb. |
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| Town of Markham Regional
Municipality of York |
View looking northerly along Highway 404 towards the CN Railway overpass.
This railway overhead was completed several years ahead of the rest of
Highway 404, and as such has a much narrower span width then other Highway
404 overpasses.
Picture taken: July 23rd, 2007. Low-res: 45kb. High-res: 145kb. |
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| Town of Markham Regional
Municipality of York |
Looking south from the CNR overpass towards John Street. This photo
provides an excellent look at a typical 1970s era freeway overpass.
Picture taken: July 23rd, 2007. Low-res: 35kb. High-res: 120kb. |
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| Town of Markham Regional
Municipality of York |
View looking northerly from the CNR overpass towards the large Highway
407
interchange. Notice the stripped buffer narrows to a single solid
painted line as the highway passes under the rail overhead. Picture taken:
July 23rd, 2007. Low-res: 40kb. High-res: 130kb. |
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Highway 407 runs across the top
of Toronto from Burlington to Pickering.
Click here for Highway 407 images. |
| Town of Markham Regional
Municipality of York |
View looking southerly through the Highway
407 interchange along Highway 404. The 404/407 interchange is a
three level interchange with high-speed flyovers moving traffic from north
to west and from south to east.
Picture taken: July 23rd, 2007. Low-res: 45kb. High-res: 170kb. |
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| Town of Markham Regional
Municipality of York |
Signage at the southbound ramps to Highway 407
ETR. The Highway 404 pull through sign has yet to be updated
despite
the fact that the highway was first widened to 6-lanes back in 1998.
Picture taken: August 12th, 2006. Size: 50kb. |
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Highway 7 leads from Sarnia to
Ottawa and through the Centre of York Region's Southern Cities.
Click here for Highway 7 images. |
| Markham - Richmond Hill Boundary
Regional Municipality of York |
Signage at the southbound off-ramp to Highway 7.
Notice that for the advanced sign to Highway
407, the distance to the exit is used instead of advanced arrows.
In recent years, the MTO has avoided using curved advanced arrows on
gantries also displaying 'pull-through' exit signage.
Picture taken: August 12th, 2006. Size: 50kb. |
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| Markham - Richmond Hill Boundary
Regional Municipality of York |
Overhead advanced sign for the Highway 7
interchange, and for the the start of the southbound
HOV lane on Highway 404. Notice the signage indicating that
Highway 407 is not accessible from the HOV
lane. Click here for more information about
Ontario's HOV lanes.
Picture taken: August 12th, 2006. Size: 60kb |
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| Aurora - Whitchurch Stouffville
Boundary Region of York |
View looking southerly from the Vandorf Sideroad overpass. Notice the
remnants of the temporary construction lines on the northbound carriageway.
These line remnants date back to 2001 when Highway 404 was widened to six lanes. Unlike most construction projects in Ontario, the pre-existing
lanes were not resurfaced during the widening project.
Picture taken: June 20th, 2005. Size: 40kb. |
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| Aurora - Whitchurch Stouffville
Boundary Region of York |
Looking north along Highway 404 from the Vandorf Sideroad overpass.
Vandorf Sideroad is located roughly at kilometre marker 43. Picture taken:
June 20th, 2005. Size: 55kb. |
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Aurora - Whitchurch Stouffville Boundary Region of York |
This picture showcases Highway 404 looking south from the Aurora Road
overpass. Notice that just south of the Aurora Road overpass, Highway
404 transitions from a 6- to a 4-lane freeway. Highway 404 is a 4-lane
freeway north of Aurora Road to its northern terminus at Green Lane.
Picture taken: June 20th, 2005. Size: 70kb. |
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Aurora - Whitchurch Stouffville Boundary Region of York |
View looking northerly along Highway 404 from the Aurora Road overpass.
Aurora Road is located roughly at kilometre marker 45. Picture taken: June
20th, 2005. Size: 45kb. |
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Aurora - Whitchurch Stouffville Boundary Region of York |
Highway 404 looking south from the St. John's Sideroad overpass near Aurora.
St. John's Sideroad is located roughly at kilometre marker 47. Notice
the Big Blue 'Oak Ridges Moraine' sign located at the right of the picture.
Environmental issues regarding the Oak Ridges Moraine have become quite a
hot topic in Ontario in recent years.
Picture taken: June 20th, 2005. Size: 50kb. |
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Aurora - Whitchurch Stouffville Boundary Region of York |
View looking northerly along Highway 404 from the St. John's Sideroad
overpass. York Region's Transportation Master Plan has identified a
need for an interchange at St John's Sideroad and Highway 404 in the future;
however no firm commitments or construction timelines have been established
for this project.
Picture taken: June 20th, 2005. Low-res: 50kb. High-res: 240kb. |
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Newmarket - Whitchurch Stouffville Boundary Region of York |
Highway 404 looking south from the Mulock Road overpass in southern
Newmarket. Currently, the Mulock Road interchange is only a partial interchange
serving traffic bound to and from Toronto. After Highway 404 is
extended northerly, the MTO plans to construct additional ramps to
at this interchange to service traffic coming to and from East Gwillimbury.
Picture taken: June 20th, 2005. Size: 55kb. |
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Newmarket - Whitchurch Stouffville Boundary Region of York |
View looking northerly from the Mulock Road overpass. Mulock Road is
located roughly at kilometre marker 49. Picture taken: June 20th, 2005.
Size: 55kb. |
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Newmarket - Whitchurch Stouffville Boundary Region of York |
View looking southerly along Highway 404 from the Davis Drive overpass.
Highway 404 ended at the Davis Drive interchange between 1989 and 2002.
Davis Drive is located at kilometre marker 51. Picture taken: August 1st, 2004.
Low-res: 65kb. High-res: 310kb. |
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Newmarket - Whitchurch Stouffville Boundary Region of York |
Looking northerly along Highway 404 from the Davis Drive interchange.
The 404 was extended north of Davis Drive to Green Lane in 2002. The
404 will be extended further to the north as far as Ravenshoe Road in the
next few years.
Picture taken: August 1st, 2004. Low-res: 55kb. High-res: 250kb. |
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Newmarket - Whitchurch Stouffville Boundary Region of York |
Looking North towards Green Lane, at the northern terminus of Highway 404.
(Sorry for the poor photo quality) Picture taken February 8th, 2004.
Size: 35kb. |
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