Ontario Highway 407
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Region:
- Halton
- Peel
- York
- Durham
- In construction
- In planning
Highway 407, also known as Express Toll Road (ETR ), in the Canadian province of Ontario leads from Burlington, southwest of Toronto to Toronto around for Pickering. The route has a length of 107 km. It is the only privately run Highway in Ontario and therefore the only toll. In contrast to other road signs in Ontario they are not run on green background, but on blue. Although Highway 407 is a toll road along its entire route, there are no separate toll booths. The toll is calculated with the help of video surveillance or transmitters in the vehicles and then billed later. Therefore, can be found at all entrances and exits appropriate monitoring devices.
Route
The highway begins in the west of the city of Burlington, there it branches of Ontario Highway 403 to north. At the same time opens the Queen Elizabeth Way and Highway 403 in jointly perform these to the northeast. The ETR leads for 7 km to the north and swings to the northwest. After another 17 km, the route meets again on Highway 403, but this affected only. The highway swings in a 90 degree turn to the northwest and crosses Highway 401 there follows a further swivel 90 °, again northeast. To the west of Toronto Pearson International Airport Highway 403 and north of Highway 427 crossed over which the airport is connected to the road network.
8 km east of it crossed Highway 400, which leads to the center of Toronto and the Northwestern Ontario through. In Markham crosses Highway 404, this is the last major intersection. The highway carries more than 23 km further to the east and ends there, then continued on Highway 7
Extension
The highway will be expanded toward the east. However, this is not carried out by the 407 ETR Concession Company Limited, but of the province itself, by 2015 a 22 km section to the east is to be supplemented through. In addition, a 10 km long connection to Highway 401 is to be built, this sub-project is planned link under the name of West Durham. By 2017, nine more kilometers to the east are completed. The entire project is then extended again by a further 14 km to 2020 additionally the East Durham Link is in turn built on Highway 401. The project cost is estimated at over 1 billion CAN $.