Ontario Highway 400
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Region:
- Parry Sound
- Muskoka
- Simcoe County
- York
- Toronto
The Highway 400 in Ontario, Canada leads from the Georgian Bay, a bay of Lake Huron to Toronto. The route has a length of 226 km.
Route
Highway 400 is the continuation of Highway 69 He leads in a southerly direction and expanded along the entire route as Freeway. The beginning of the highway is north of Nobel, a little haven of McDougall. He performs as a bypass around Parry Sound, thus leaving behind the coastal region around Lake Huron. The highway is located here in the southern part of the Canadian Shield and crosses the landscape traversed by lakes. In Severn he leaves the Canadian Shield and meets again on a spur of Lake Huron. There, then branches off and Ontario Highway 12 east from, to this junction Highway 400 was part of the Trans-Canada Highway system. The highway now passes through landscape that is known as the Golden Horseshoe and is therefore handling the metropolitan Toronto area. It runs through Barrie and continues southward. In Vaughan it crosses Highway 407, the only toll on the entire length of highway in Ontario. Thus, the highway is also in the Greater Toronto Area. There, he meets Highway 401 and then ends. The continuation of the highway leads through local roads to the city center.
Extension
In the medium term it is envisaged Highway continues to extend in a northerly direction and thus to replace Highway 69. This also has some sections of Highway 69 south of Sudbury was extended as a freeway or are still being developed. 2015 is to be widened to four lanes to approximately 70 km in length north of the Nobel section.