Content deleted Content added
Imzadi1979 (talk | contribs) →top: fix date formatting error; expand citation Tag: Reverted |
Imzadi1979 (talk | contribs) m tags Tag: Reverted |
||
Line 38:
}}
'''King's Highway 400''', commonly referred to as '''Highway{{nbsp}}400''', historically as the '''Toronto–Barrie Highway''', and colloquially as '''the{{nbsp}}400''', is a [[400-series highways|400-series highway]] in the [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Canadian province]] of [[Ontario]] linking the city of [[Toronto]] in the [[Southern Ontario|urban and agricultural south]] of the province with the scenic and sparsely populated [[Central Ontario|central]] and [[Northern Ontario|northern]] regions. The portion of the highway between Toronto and [[Lake Simcoe]] roughly traces the route of the [[Toronto Carrying-Place Trail]], a historic trail between the Lower and Upper Great Lakes. North of [[Ontario Highway 12|Highway 12]], in combination with [[Ontario Highway 69|Highway 69]], it forms a branch of the [[Trans-Canada Highway]] (TCH), the ''Georgian Bay Route'', and is part of the highest-capacity route from southern Ontario to the [[Western Canada|Canadian West]], via a connection with the mainline of the TCH in [[Greater Sudbury|Sudbury]]. The highway also serves as the primary route from Toronto to southern [[Georgian Bay]] and [[District Municipality of Muskoka|Muskoka]], areas collectively known as ''[[cottage country]]''. The highway is patrolled by the [[Ontario Provincial Police]] and has a speed limit of {{convert|100|km/h|abbr=on}}, except for the section south of Highway{{nbsp}}401, where the speed limit is {{convert|80|km/h|abbr=on}} and the {{convert|60|km|abbr=on}} stretch between [[MacTier, Ontario|MacTier]] and [[Nobel, Ontario|Nobel]], where the speed limit was raised to {{convert|110|kph|abbr=on}} on April 22, 2022.<ref>{{cite press release |first1 = Dakota |last1 = Brasier |first2 = Simisola |last2 = Ikotun |date = March 29, 2022 |url = https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1001886/ontario-raising-highway-speed-limits |title = Ontario Raising Highway Speed Limits |publisher = Ministry of Transportation of Ontario |access-date = July 13, 2024 }}</ref>
It was the first fully [[controlled-access highway]] in Ontario when it was opened between North York and [[Barrie]] on July{{nbsp}}1, 1952. On that date, it was also the first highway to be designated as a 400-series. The freeway was extended in both directions; north of Barrie to [[Coldwater, Ontario|Coldwater]] in 1958, and south of Highway{{nbsp}}401 to Jane Street in 1966; a short distance east of Jane Street the route continues as the municipal expressway [[Black Creek Drive]] which opened in 1982. Since the 1970s to the present there have been numerous projects which have widened and modernized the freeway between North York and Barrie, including being expanded with a collector-express system in Vaughan to accommodate the interchange with the new [[Ontario Highway 407|Highway{{nbsp}}407 ETR]].
| |||