Ontario Highway 11 Photographs - Page 7 - History of Ontario's Kings Highways

Left - Facing north along Hwy 400 towards Coldwater at the Hwy 11 Interchange near Crown Hill, just north of Barrie. This structure carries the northbound lanes of Hwy 400 across the ramp connections to Hwy 11 at Crown Hill. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on May 23, 1990.
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Right - Southern side of the Crown Hill Overpass on Hwy 11 north of Barrie, which carries the northbound lanes of Hwy 400. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on May 23, 1990.
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Left - Washago Canadian National Railway (CNR) Overhead on Hwy 11, showing steel girder painting under Contract #1989-94. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on June 22, 1990.
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Right - View underneath the Washago CNR Overhead (Site #30-09) on Hwy 11, showing steel girder painting. This below-deck view of the overhead also shows the two phases of this bridge's construction. When the Washago Bypass (Hwy 11 New) was first being constructed in the 1950s, all of the structures along the new bypass were designed to carry two traffic lanes. However, as traffic volumes continued to grow along Hwy 11, the highway was later expanded to four lanes in the mid-1960s. The original structure at left was built under Contract #1954-28 and was completed in 1954, while the western extension at right was built under Contract #1964-300 and was completed in 1965. Note the construction joint between the two phases of the bridge. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on June 22, 1990.
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Left - Facing north along Hwy 11 approaching the Willow Creek Bridge at "Gasoline Alley" north of Crown Hill. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on July 31, 1990.
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Right - View of Hwy 11 at "Gasoline Alley", facing south towards the Willow Creek Bridge (Site #30-135) near Crown Hill. With service stations flanking both sides of Hwy 11 north of Crown Hill, it is fairly obvious how this section of Hwy 11 got its nickname. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on July 31, 1990.
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Left - Southern side of the Oro Township Line 11 & Simcoe County Road 20 Overpass on Hwy 11, located about 8 km south of Orillia. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on July 31, 1990.
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Right - Facing west across the Oro Township Line 11 & Simcoe County Road 20 Overpass (Site #30-472) south of Orillia. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on July 31, 1990.
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Left - Northern side of the Oro-Orillia Townline Overpass (today's Oro-Medonte Line 14), located about 3 km south of Orillia. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on September 26, 1990.
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Right - Facing west across the Oro-Orillia Townline Overpass (Site #30-473) south of Orillia. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on September 26, 1990.
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Left - Northern side of the Orillia Township Line 2 Overpass (today's Oro-Medonte Line 15), located about 1 km south of Orillia. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on September 26, 1990.
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Right - Facing west across the Orillia Township Line 2 Overpass (Site #30-490) south of Orillia. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on September 26, 1990.
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Left - Northern side of the Memorial Avenue (Formerly Hwy 11B) Overpass on Hwy 11 in Orillia. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on September 26, 1990.
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Right - Facing west across the Memorial Avenue Overpass (Site #30-91) on Hwy 11 in Orillia. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on September 26, 1990.
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Left - Northern side of the overpass carrying the South Orillia Bypass (Hwy 12 South) over Hwy 11 in Orillia. This interesting four-span structure was completed in 1958 and marked one of the first instances that the Department of Highways of Ontario (DHO) used precast concrete girders for bridge construction, rather than cast-in-place concrete as was typically done up until that time. This bridge is situated at the junction between the Orillia Bypass (Hwy 11) and the South Orillia Bypass (Hwy 12 South). See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on September 26, 1990.
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Right - Facing west across the Hwy 12 South Overpass (Site #30-76) on the Orillia Bypass (Hwy 11). See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on September 26, 1990.
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Left - Northern side of the Hwy 12 West Overpass on the Orillia Bypass (Hwy 11). At the time this photo was taken in 1990, the interchange ramps at the Hwy 11 & Hwy 12 West Junction were still in their original eight-ramp cloverleaf configuration as initially built along the Orillia Bypass during the 1950s. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on September 26, 1990.
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Right - Facing west towards Coldwater across the Hwy 12 West Overpass (Site #30-77) on the Orillia Bypass (Hwy 11). Note the rural areas along Hwy 12 west of the Hwy 11 Interchange. Today, this area is now completely urbanized. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on September 26, 1990.
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Left - Northern side of the West Street Overpass on the Orillia Bypass (Hwy 11). See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on September 26, 1990.
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Right - Facing west across the West Street Overpass (Site #30-397) on the Orillia Bypass (Hwy 11). See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on September 26, 1990.
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Left - Southern side of the Orillia Township Line 8 (today's Soules Road) Overpass on Hwy 11, located about 4 km north of Orillia. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on October 30, 1990.
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Right - Facing east across the Orillia Township Line 8 Overpass (Site #30-476) on Hwy 11. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on October 30, 1990.
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Left - Northern side of the Orillia Township Line 10 Overpass (Site #30-477) on Hwy 11, located about 7 km north of Orillia. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on October 31, 1990.
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Right - Eastern side of the Washago CNR Overhead on Hwy 11 near the Hwy 169 Interchange, showing completed steel girder painting. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on October 31, 1990.
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Left - Facing north along Hwy 11 & Hwy 169 towards Gravenhurst at the Green River Bridge (Severn River, West Branch) in Washago. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on October 31, 1990.
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Right - New Truck Inspection Station nearing completion of Hwy 11 between Powassan and Callander. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken in 1990.
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Left - Southern side of the Hwy 12 South Overpass on the Orillia Bypass (Hwy 11). See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on September 17, 1992.
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Right - Facing south along the Orillia Bypass (Hwy 11) towards Barrie at the Hwy 12 South Interchange. For many years, the Orillia Bypass did not have a continuous median barrier system in place. Instead, short sections of barrier systems were in place approaching bridges to protect specific roadside obstructions. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on September 17, 1992.
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Left - View of the eastbound Hwy 401 directional exit ramp to northbound Yonge Street (Hwy 11) in Toronto, where it passes below the structure (Site #37-342) carrying the exit ramp from westbound Hwy 401 to Yonge Street. This directional exit ramp was built this way in the mid-1960s due to the adjacent Hogg's Hollow Bridge and the skew of the Yonge Street crossing, which made the construction of a conventional exit ramp to Yonge Street very challenging and costly. This directional ramp also provides a high-capacity facility to service the heavy traffic volumes exiting from eastbound Hwy 401 to northbound Yonge Street. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on June 14, 1995.
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Right - Facing west along the exit ramp to Yonge Street (Hwy 11) from westbound Hwy 401, where it passes over the directional exit ramp from eastbound Hwy 401. The Yonge Street (Hwy 11) interchange on Hwy 401 was initially built in the 1950s as a full eight-ramp cloverleaf - and a very constrained one, at that. The original cloverleaf interchange began to exhibit operational problems in the years following its opening, due to quickly rising traffic volumes and poor ramp geometry. As part of the reconstruction and widening of Hwy 401 during the 1960s, the Yonge Street Interchange was redesigned to the layout seen today. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on June 14, 1995.
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Left - Facing west along the eastbound exit ramp from Hwy 401 at the Yonge Street (Hwy 11) Interchange in Toronto. After diverging from Hwy 401, this exit ramp forks into two ramps - the two-lane directional ramp to northbound Yonge Street and a single-lane ramp to southbound Yonge Street. The high-level viaduct structure over the Don River at Hogg's Hollow can be seen in the background just beyond the highway curve. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on June 14, 1995.
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Right - Southern side of the Yonge Street (Hwy 11) Underpass (Site #37-340) below the directional ramp from eastbound Hwy 401 to northbound Yonge Street in Toronto. The Yonge Street Interchange is rather complex, with four different grade-separated crossings. Three of the grade separations are situated along the directional West-to-North ramp. This structure over Yonge Street also carries a pedestrain sidewalk between the east and west sides of Yonge Street. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on June 14, 1995.
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Left - Facing east along the westbound Hwy 401 Collector Lanes at the West-to-North directional ramp underpass (Site #37-341/2) to northbound Yonge Street in Toronto. The westbound Hwy 401 Collector Lanes narrow to two lanes only through the Yonge Street Interchange - one of the few places within the Express-Collector Lane System where this occurs. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on July 12, 1995.
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Right - View of the westbound Hwy 401 Collector Lanes approaching Yonge Street at the West-to-North directional ramp underpass to northbound Yonge Street. After crossing the directional ramp, Hwy 401 crosses Yonge Street and then proceeds across the viaduct over Hogg's Hollow. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on July 12, 1995.
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Left - View of Hwy 401 approaching the Yonge Street (Hwy 11) Interchange in Toronto, facing west along the eastbound Hwy 401 Collector Lanes at the directional West-to-North ramp underpass (Site #37-341/1). The complex interchange at Yonge Street was built as part of a multi-year reconstruction and widening project. Under Contract #1965-131, an Express-Collector Lane System was introduced along Hwy 401 from Hogg's Hollow to a point just east of the Bayview Avenue Interchange along with a new higher-capacity interchange at Yonge Street (Hwy 11). See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on July 12, 1995.
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Right - Facing east along the eastbound Hwy 401 Collector Lanes at the directional West-to-North ramp underpass (Site #37-341/1). When the highway was initially widened to 12 lanes through the Yonge Street Interchange in the mid-1960s, the eastbound Hwy 401 Collector Lanes had only two lanes through the Yonge Street Interchange. During subsequent reconstruction work, an additional eastbound lane was carried through the interchange. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on July 12, 1995.
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Left - Facing west along the westbound Hwy 401 Express Lanes in Toronto at the Yonge Street (Hwy 11) Interchange. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on September 10, 1995.
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Right - MTO Bridge Maintenance Crew undertaking expansion joint repairs at the Yonge Street Underpass (Site #37-204/4) on the westbound Hwy 401 Express Lanes. Historically, MTO had an in-house bridge maintenance crew who could respond to emergency incidents and undertake repairs to provincial highway bridges as needed. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on September 10, 1995.
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Left - Facing west along the westbound Hwy 401 Collector Lanes towards Hogg's Hollow at the Yonge Street Underpass (Site #37-204/2). The long viaduct over Hogg's Hollow starts immediately west of the Yonge Street Interchange. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on November 6, 1995.
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Right - View of the reconstructed expansion joints at the Yonge Street Underpass on the westbound Hwy 401 Collector Lanes. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on November 6, 1995.
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Left - Facing east along the eastbound Hwy 401 Collector Lanes at the Yonge Street Underpass (Site #37-204/1). See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on November 6, 1995.
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Right - View of Hwy 401 at the Yonge Street Interchange, facing northeast from the eastbound Hwy 401 Collector Lanes. This area has changed quite dramatically in recent years, with the low-density industrial and residential buildings seen in this photo replaced with high-rise towers along the northern side of Hwy 401. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on November 6, 1995.
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Left - Facing west along the westbound Hwy 401 Collector Lanes at the underpass structure for the directional Yonge Street West-to-North Ramp (Site #37-341/2). See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on August 23. 1997.
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Right - View of Hwy 401 at the the directional Yonge Street West-to-North Ramp Underpass (Site #37-341/2). This photo provides a general view of the Express-Collector Lane System through Toronto. Constructed in the mid-1960s under Contract #1965-131, the original four-lane Toronto Bypass was expanded to 12 lanes through this area. The four individual roadways comprising the Express-Collector Lane System were separated by steel beam guide rail barriers. The Express-Collector Lane System separated shorter-distance traffic which was more local in nature from longer-distance through traffic using Hwy 401. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken on August 23. 1997.
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