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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Highway 400 (Ontario)
Highway 400 had been completed up to Jane Street in 1966 (alongside the expansion of Highway 401) but plans to extend Highway 400 further south to the Gardiner Expressway had been shelved in the 1970s.
In the 1990s, concurrent with the construction of Highway 407, the section between Highway 401 and Finch Avenue was widened to 12 lanes and that project necessitated the demolition and reconstruction of the Sheppard Avenue overpass.
Highway 400's interchange with Highway 518 is the first and only interchange between a 400-series highway and a secondary highway in the province, but more will be built as the 400 is extended northwards.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ontario_provincial_highway_400   (1293 words)

  
  Highway 400 (Ontario) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the 1990s, concurrent with the construction of Highway 407, the section between Highway 401 and Finch Avenue was widened to 12 lanes and that project necessitated the demolition and reconstruction of the Sheppard Avenue overpass.
Highway 400 was one of the original 400-series freeways, along with the QEW, Highway 401, and Highway 402.
Highway 400's interchange with Highway 518 is the first and only interchange between a 400-series highway and a secondary highway in the province, but more will be built as the 400 is extended northwards.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Highway_400_(Ontario)   (1214 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Highway 69 (Ontario)
The highway is part of the Trans-Canada Highway for most of its length, except for the section between Exits 189 and 213 that was bypassed by Highway 400 but remains signed as 69.
The road between Parry Sound and Nobel was paved during World War II because of the large munitions factory in Nobel, and this was deemed to be a critical requirement for the war effort, to ease the movement of ammunition from Nobel to the armed forces.
Although construction did commence at the highway's southern end, the project was curtailed by the Progressive Conservative government of Mike Harris shortly after the 1995 provincial election, with construction ending at the highway's current terminus in Parry Sound.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ontario_provincial_highway_69   (1126 words)

  
 King's Highway 400 - Images
As evident from the signage, Highway 401 is considered to be the mainline, instead of Highway 400 itself.
Highway 400 is a 12-lane freeway from Highway 401 northerly to Finch Avenue.
Currently, Highway 69 runs concurrent with Highway 400 south from Foote's Bay through the Wahta Gap until the transition from 2- to 4- lanes at the Musquash River Bridge.
www.onthighways.com /hwy_400_images/Hwy400_images.htm   (1940 words)

  
 LordSutch.com: Hwy 400/69 Photos (Ontario)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Highway 400 is the main route between Toronto and points north in the province.
At present, Highway 400 apparently ends at the end of the continuous four-lane section at the Go Home River a few kilometers north of the Muskoka District Road 38/32 intersection, at the end of the continuous freeway.
Chris Bessert's site, the long-term plan is for the Hwy 400 designation to be extended once the gap between the Moon and Go Home rivers (about 8 kilometers) is upgraded to a freeway.
www.lordsutch.com /roads/ontario/hwy400.html   (439 words)

  
 King's Highway 400 - www.OntHighways.com
Because of its dual function, Highway 400 is at is busiest on Friday evenings during the summer months, when both commuters and cottagers are using the route.
Trans-Canada Highway: As the Georgian Bay route, from Highway 12 (South JCT.) to the 400's northern terminus.
Highway 400 ENDS just north of Bowes Street, where it becomes known only as Highway 69.
onthighways.com /highway_400.htm   (567 words)

  
 Georgia @ SouthEastRoads.com - Georgia 400 Toll
Georgia 400 is a major north-south freeway from Interstate 85 northeast of downtown Atlanta north to Coal Mountain via Cumming.
Georgia Toll 400, the section of Georgia 400 between Interstate 85/Georgia 13 and Interstate 285 passes through the Buckhead portion of the city before meeting the perimeter (Interstate 285).
Georgia 400 was originally planned as a north-south freeway that would connect and incorporate today's Georgia 400 and today's Interstate 675 into one long freeway corridor.
southeastroads.com /ga-400.html   (1160 words)

  
 Ontario Highways: Highway Configuration
Most of the province's highways comprising the 11,800-kilometre system are broken into one of four main classifications and posted with the appropriate route marker.
The QEW is signed with a dark blue-on-yellow provincial highway sign with the letters "QEW." For the most part, the 400-Series Highways were not touched in the mass-downloading of highways.
While this route is not a provincially maintained highway, it is numbered in sequence with the provincial highways and is very much related to the rest of the system.
www.ontariohighways.org /kings_highways.html   (1008 words)

  
 King's Highway 400 - www.OntHighways.com
Because of its dual function, Highway 400 is at is busiest on Friday evenings during the summer months, when both commuters and cottagers are using the route.
Freeway: Highway 400 is one of Ontario's three 400-series highways that is not a true divided highway for its entire length.
Trans-Canada Highway: As the Georgian Bay route, from Highway 12 (South JCT.) to the 400's northern terminus.
www.onthighways.com /highway_400.htm   (567 words)

  
 Highway 400 - Highway 404 Extension Link (Bradford Bypass) Environmental Assessment
The proposed freeway will connect Highway 400 in the Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury to the proposed northerly extension of Highway 404 Extension in the Town of East Gwillimbury.
The design and construction of the highway will be subject to the MTO's Class Environmental Assessment for Provincial Transportation Facilities.
It is anticipated that the highway will be constructed in stages over a number of years, to reflect financial constraints and traffic demands.
www.ene.gov.on.ca /envision/env_reg/ea/English/EAs/hwy400_404.htm   (223 words)

  
 Louisiana State Highway 1 - North to South
State Highway 1, the Backbone state highway, crosses the state diagonally from the extreme northwest corner where Louisiana meets both Texas and Arkansas to Grand Isle on the Gulf of Mexico, near the extreme Southeast corner of the state.
The goal is to build a highway from the Gulf of Mexico to Winnipeg, Canada.
The tenth annual meeting of the Jefferson Highway Association meets in New Orleans to celebrate the completion of the highway through the state of Louisiana.
www.enlou.com /routes/highway1.htm   (505 words)

  
 End of U.S. Highway 400
This bypass had already been built by the time US 400 was commissioned, so it's likely that the sign above would've marked the exit to the west beginning of US 400.
Since then, the west end of US 400 is about 15 miles west of the Kansas border, in Granada CO. In other words, the westernmost 135 miles of US 400 are on a pointless duplex with US 50.
I'm guessing CDoT accepted US 400 only because AASHTO probably stipulated that it couldn't end at a stateline, so CDoT decided to be a good neighbor to Kansas by agreeing to the US 400 designation.
www.geocities.com /usend0009/End400/end400.htm   (729 words)

  
 Ontario Provincial Highways (400-427 + QEW)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Hwy 400 is the main route carrying Torontoans northward toward "Cottage Country" in the north-central portions of the province.
Hwy 400, or at least a southern extension of it, was originally intended to proceed south of Hwy 401 to meet with the Gardiner Expwy (Former Hwy 2) at the lakefront somewhere east of the Humber River.
In this era of highway downloading which has seen all of the Gardiner Expwy (Former Hwy 2) and a part of the QEW given over to the City of Toronto, it seems that the Don Valley will remain in city hands and Hwy 404 will most definitely not be extended southward.
members.aol.com /hwys/OntHwys/OntHwys400-QEW.html   (7162 words)

  
 American Society of Highway Engineers
Atlantans used to brag about its highway system, saying you could travel anywhere in the city in under thirty minutes-whether it was from the north end of Roswell to the airport was no matter.
Interstate 85 was four lanes and highway 400 didn't even exist yet.
What this means is that there will be a potential withholding of Federal funds for highway improvements in an additional 52 urban areas, comprising 242 counties because they will be designated as "non-attainment areas" and in 29 areas already categorized as non-attainment, the boundaries will be expanded.
www.highwayengineers.org /scanner12202c.html   (1067 words)

  
 Armbro HMA plant well placed for Highway 400 job
ot mix asphalt for the Highway 400 paving contract is being supplied from Armbro Construction’s portable plant, lo-cated near the mid-point of the job at the Finch Ave.
The plant, a 1994 Gencor 400 Ultradrum, is a single drum counterflow design and one of two similar portable spreads owned by Armbro.
Armbro Construction is using this Gencor 400 Ultradrum plant to supply the 260 000 tonnes of hot mix for the Highway 400 project.
rocktoroad.com /armbro400.html   (725 words)

  
 Guide Rail Upgraded On Highway 400 : ArriveNet Press Releases : Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Steel-beamed guide rail provides a safer shoulder area on major highways by lessening the distance a vehicle would deflect towards traffic if it were to strike the guide rail.
The Ontario government is investing nearly $1 billion in highway infrastructure this year to improve safety, ease congestion and save drivers time.
For up-to-date information on highway construction and road conditions in the area, call the ministry's road information line at (416) 235-4686, or toll-free at 1-800-268-4686.
press.arrivenet.com /business/article.php/471572.html   (335 words)

  
 Highway 400 webcams a listing of all Highway 400 webcams from Barrie to Highway 401
Highway 400 webcams from Barrie to Highway 401
To assist in your drive to or from Toronto to our fair region we are pleased to present a listing of all Highway 400 webcams from Barrie to Highway 401 complete on one page.
Let's face it, by the time that accident, roadwork or weather is reported on the radio its generally old news.
simcoemuskoka.com /traffic   (242 words)

  
 Lakewood 400 Antiques Market
The Lakewood 400 Antiques Market is ideally located adjacent to Georgia Highway 400, a mile north of Exit 13 on Georgia Highway.
The Lakewood 400 Events Center has 45,000 square feet of event space with two auction areas, full-service concessions, 600 parking spaces, ample restroom facilities, easy load-in and load-out and is handicap accessible.
The Lakewood 400 Events Center recently hosted the Georgia Mountain Events Gun and Knife Show, Auction Express Automobile Auction, and the Cumming-Forsyth County Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours.
www.lakewoodantiques.com /400.htm   (132 words)

  
 Work on schedule for busy highway 20, 400 interchange - forsythnews.com
Efforts to improve traffic congestion at the intersection of Georgia highways 20 and 400 are on schedule and are nearly one-third completed, according to Department of Transportation officials.
Teri Pope, district communication officer for the Georgia Department of Transportation, said the two projects are being worked on at the same time since both were put out for bid together.
Crews are constructing northbound collector lanes, which will elongate the ramp system off of Ga. 400.
www.forsythnews.com /news/stories/20050617/localnews/113675.shtml   (297 words)

  
 USEPA Region 4 Etowah River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
State Highway 20 and State Highway 441 east bound and.1 mile east of mile marker 24 outside of Rome.
State Highway 515 south and.1 mile north of mile marker 8 on Highway 515.
State Highway 400 south and.3 miles north of State Road 136.
www.epa.gov /region4/water/watersheds/signage/georgia/etowah.html   (173 words)

  
 Highway 400 North Employment Lands Study
A comprehensive land use study for the lands east and west of Highway 400, north of Teston Road to the Township of King boundary.
Highway 400 North Employment Lands Secondary Plan Study, Developing Scenarios Working Paper, Macaulay Shiomi Howson Ltd. and HEMSON Consulting Ltd., May 9, 2006 (7Mb PDF)
Highway 400 North Employment Lands Revised Background Report (1Mb PDF)
www.city.vaughan.on.ca /newscentre/projects/highway400n_employmentLand.cfm   (264 words)

  
 Speeding up Highway 400 four-laning - Parry Sound
With the work now to be done over about five years, and the entire project to Sudbury scheduled to be completed within the next 12 years, the new timeline puts extra pressure on people who will be relocated or leaving their businesses.
Starting at the south just past the current Highway 559, the future Highway 400 will veer west of the current Highway 69, and an access interchange will be built to Shebeshekong Road to reach the 559.
Those whose land the proposed new highway and subsequent service roads will take are in a tight spot while waiting for the route to be finalized.
www.parrysound.com /press/1120074577   (562 words)

  
 The History of Ontario's King's Highways
From the earliest military and pioneer roads to today's modern freeways, these critical transportation links have proven to be the key to developing the economic powerhouse that is today's Ontario.
This historical Ontario roads website will include a brief history of each King's Highway by route number, and will eventually include route maps of former Ontario highway routings since the 1920s.
There will also be a photo gallery of old Kings Highway signs, mileage charts, route descriptions, and lots of vintage Ontario road photographs from MTO/Ontario Archives.
www.thekingshighway.ca   (287 words)

  
 Algonquin Lakeside Inn - How to Get Here
You will cross a bridge at Oxtongue Lake and we are the first place on the right hand side of the road, once you have crossed the bridge.
The reception office is in the building that faces the highway.
Stay on Highway #60 and go through Algonquin Park until you get to the Hamlet of Oxtongue Lake (we are 10 km west of the park gate).
www.algonquininn.com /map.htm   (716 words)

  
 Algood Casters - Map and Directions
Take Highway 401 East (your can access from "express" or "collector" lanes) to Highway 400 North.
Take Highway 401 West (your can access Highway 400 from “collector” lanes only) to Highway 400 North.
Take Highway 407 West (you access Highway 407 from the 401) to Pine Valley Road exit.
www.algood-casters.com /map.html   (483 words)

  
 Map of Highway 53 E & Highway 400 S Dawsonville, GA by MapQuest
Map of Highway 53 E & Highway 400 S Dawsonville, GA by MapQuest
When printing directly from the browser your map may be incorrectly cropped.
MapQuest and its suppliers assume no responsibility for any loss or delay resulting from such use.
www.mapquest.com /maps/map.adp?address=Hwy+53+%26+400&city=Dawsonville&state=GA&country=US&cid=lfmaplink   (148 words)

  
 List of highways numbered 400 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New York State Route 400, also called the "Aurora Expressway"
This disambiguation page lists articles about roads, streets, highways, or other routes which are associated with the same title.
If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Highway_400   (104 words)

  
 Aspen Leaf Village #35 - Direstions How to Get There   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Travel west for 11 miles on US 160, then exit on to State Highway 12 (scenic Highway of Legends) and travel 15 miles (passing through La Veta) to Cuchara Mountain Resort.
Take Highway 68 north to Taos, New Mexico, then continue traveling north on Highway 522/159 to Fort Garland.
Exit on to State Highway 12 (scenic Highway of Legends) and travel 15 miles (passing through La Veta) to Cuchara Mountain Resort.
users.ev1.net /~jcrocker/how_to_get_there.htm   (253 words)

  
 CNW Group | ONTARIO MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION | Editor's Advisory - Highway 400 Lane Closures
> "Keeping Highway 400 in good repair, while minimizing impact to drivers, is important to the more than 85,000 drivers who use this road on an average week day," said Transportation Minister Donna Cansfield.
In addition, portable message signs will be placed along Highway 400 near the construction site and outlying areas to advise drivers about lane closures.
For up-to-date road condition information on major highways in the area, visit www.roadinfo.mto.gov.on.ca or call the ministry's road information line at (416) 235-4686, or toll-free at 1-800-268-4686.
www.newswire.ca /en/releases/archive/August2006/24/c8048.html   (280 words)

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