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AsphaltPlanet

#1600
December 30, 2025, 09:59:49 PM  
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AsphaltPlanet

#1601
December 31, 2025, 06:53:34 PM  
Photos looking north along Highway 400 from the Rutherford Road overpass in Vaughan.  These photos are a bit out of date, taken in 2023 before work had really gotten going on the widening of the 400 through the Vaughan:


https://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_400_images/400_cl_33_north_DSC08731_42x28.jpg


https://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_400_images/400_cl_33_north_DSC08730_42x28.jpg


https://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_400_images/400_cl_33_north_DSC08739_42x28.jpg
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pderocco

#1602
January 02, 2026, 12:27:39 AM  
Very nice shots. I wish you'd leave the EXIF data on the downloadable ones. I'm always curious about camera, lens, settings.

AsphaltPlanet

#1603
January 14, 2026, 09:17:31 PM  
A series of night photos taken from 2021 of Hwy 401 from Brock Road in Pickering.  These were taken with a Sony Alpha 6500 (now sold) and a Sony 16-55 G lens:

Looking west:

https://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_cl_DSC06088_42x28.jpg


https://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_cl_DSC06093_42x28.jpg

Looking east:

https://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_cl_DSC06082_42x28.jpg
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AsphaltPlanet

#1604
January 20, 2026, 09:35:35 PM  
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#1606
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#1607
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Great Lakes Roads

#1608
March 10, 2026, 05:05:43 AM  
-Jay Seaburg

Clinched States (Interstates): AL, AZ, DE, FL, HI, KS, MN, NE, NH, RI, VT, WI

zzcarp

#1609
March 11, 2026, 01:56:45 AM  
So many miles and so many roads

andrepoiy

#1610
March 11, 2026, 10:07:55 AM  


zzcarp

#1611
March 11, 2026, 04:11:10 PM  
Quote from: andrepoiy on March 11, 2026, 10:07:55 AM
Quote from: zzcarp on March 11, 2026, 01:56:45 AM
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on March 10, 2026, 05:05:43 AMhttps://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1007099/ontario-taking-next-steps-to-widen-highway-17-between-renfrew-and-arnprior

Good to see that Highway 417 will be extended westwards towards Renfrew!

Then on to the Sault!
Probably never to be honest...
Probably not. The Echo Bay bypass, the Sudbury southwest and southeast bypasses, and the stretch of freeway west of Sudbury past Whitefish to just before the traffic light at DenLou are the only major improvements I've seen in my lifetime on that stretch of Highway 17. Still one can dream.
So many miles and so many roads

zzcarp

#1612
March 11, 2026, 04:19:20 PM  
Quote from: andrepoiy on March 11, 2026, 10:07:55 AM
Quote from: zzcarp on March 11, 2026, 01:56:45 AM
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on March 10, 2026, 05:05:43 AMhttps://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1007099/ontario-taking-next-steps-to-widen-highway-17-between-renfrew-and-arnprior

Good to see that Highway 417 will be extended westwards towards Renfrew!

Then on to the Sault!
Probably never to be honest...
Probably not. The Echo Bay bypass, the Sudbury southwest and southeast bypasses, and the stretch of freeway west of Sudbury past Whitefish to just before the traffic light at DenLou are the only major improvements I've seen in my lifetime on that stretch of Highway 17. Still one can dream.
So many miles and so many roads

zzcarp

#1613
March 11, 2026, 04:30:55 PM  
In other northern news, there are going to be even more delays to close the freeway gap along Highway 69/future Highway 400 north of Parry Sound.

QuoteMagnetawan First Nation, south of Sudbury wants the provincial government to deal with its 2021 land claim issue before the community provides property for widening Highway 69.
...
Magnetawan said the boundaries under the 1850 Robinson Huron Treaty were not properly set out.

"Originally, when they did the survey in 1851, they did the survey in miles rather than leagues, and a league is worth more than miles," [Chief] Nogonash said.

"So that's where we got short-changed."

I'd love to see the original maps to see what was actually supposed to be laid out versus the treaty document. It seems that a group of qualified land surveyors would be able to make short work of these claims. It's just unfortunate that this issue is holding up a needed highway corridor.
So many miles and so many roads

vdeane

#1614
March 12, 2026, 09:02:56 PM  
More on ON 400 through the First Nation: they appear to still be interested in moving the expansion forward despite the dispute.

https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/we-will-not-be-holding-up-the-expansion-of-highway-69-magnetawan-chief-11988753
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AsphaltPlanet

#1615
March 13, 2026, 12:35:29 AM  
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vdeane

#1616
March 13, 2026, 12:49:47 PM  
^ I find that spot odd.  Usually when a super-2 has an interchange like that with plans for future widening, the interchange is built largely to its final geometry, with the ramps on the opposite side of the existing carriageway having extensions to meet traffic (example).  But in this case, it appears that the interchange ramps will need to be rebuilt and significant work done on ON 17 to widen it to four lanes and extend ON 417 (beyond simply building the other carriageway), which is odd as it is my understanding that such would be the next project for extending it to Renfrew.
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AsphaltPlanet

#1617
March 13, 2026, 09:40:48 PM  
Here's a google screenshot of the temporary ramp that was constructed during the widening of Autoroute 50 east of Buckingham in Quebec.

Despite the ramps favourable geometry when A-50 operated as a super-2 the old ramp still needs to be closed where they actually build the new carriageway in order to both, build the carriageway to full strength, and to make sure the grading is correct for the final pavement elevation:


https://maps.app.goo.gl/YoJeMwhhjCpV7say8

At the Calabogie Interchange most of the ramp alignments support the final interchange configuration, but unless they had built a short segment of future westbound carriageway, and done full-depth reconstruction of the existing carriageway, some of the advanced interchange was always going to be throwaway.
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RoadMaster09

#1618
March 13, 2026, 11:08:46 PM   Last Edit: March 13, 2026, 11:17:28 PM by RoadMaster09
Quote from: andrepoiy on March 11, 2026, 10:07:55 AM
Quote from: zzcarp on March 11, 2026, 01:56:45 AM
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on March 10, 2026, 05:05:43 AMhttps://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1007099/ontario-taking-next-steps-to-widen-highway-17-between-renfrew-and-arnprior

Good to see that Highway 417 will be extended westwards towards Renfrew!

Then on to the Sault!
Probably never to be honest...

It would likely cost about $15 billion to get that far. But there are large sections, especially around North Bay and Sudbury, with traffic counts around 10,000.

If I were to guess the exit numbers:

CR 6 - Exit 206
Highway 60 - Exit 208
CR 20 - Exit 211

AsphaltPlanet

#1619
March 15, 2026, 04:47:23 PM  
Photos of the Yonge Street bridge north of Bradford that will carry Yonge Street (Simcoe Road 4, old Highway 11) overtop of the Bradford By-pass.  Photos from September, 2025:

Looking south along Yonge Street:

https://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_410-427_images/4BB_DSC00088_42x28.png

Three views looking east at the western side of the new bridge.  The bridge has been backfilled to reduce the amount of ponding beneath the structure until the new highway is built.  Construction on the western segment from Yonge Street to the 400 is supposed to start later this year:

https://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_410-427_images/4BB_DSC00094_42x28.png


https://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_410-427_images/4BB_DSC00095_42x28.png


https://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_410-427_images/4BB_DSC00097.png

View looking at the eastern side of the new bridge:

https://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_410-427_images/4BB_DSC00102_42x28.png
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Stephane Dumas

#1620
March 15, 2026, 04:56:35 PM  
The more I look the corridor of the Bradford bypass, the more we could imagine a western extension west of Hwy-401 going southwest to reach the future Hwy-413 or going west to meet a northern extension of Hwy-427.

AsphaltPlanet

#1621
April 08, 2026, 01:55:05 AM  
View looking easterly towards Downtown Toronto from the Parklawn Road overpass over the Gardiner Expressway:


https://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/QEW_images/QEW_cl_143_DSC04522_42x28.jpg
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AsphaltPlanet

#1623
April 20, 2026, 09:29:11 PM  
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AsphaltPlanet

#1624
April 26, 2026, 09:42:45 PM  
Dusk view looking west along Highway 407 from the Coronation Road overpass in Whitby:


https://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_407-409_images/407_cl_115_west_WB_Apr26_42x28.jpg
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