Ontario Highway 401 Photographs - Page 25 - History of Ontario's Kings Highways

Left - Aerial view of the Hwy 404 & Don Valley Parkway Interchange on Hwy 401 in Toronto, facing southeast. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on May 30, 2004 - © Cameron Bevers)

Right - Aerial view of Hwy 401 at Don Mills Road, facing east towards the Hwy 404 & Don Valley Parkway Interchange in Toronto. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on May 30, 2004 - © Cameron Bevers)

Left - Aerial view of Hwy 401 approaching the Hwy 404 & Don Valley Parkway Interchange in Toronto, facing west towards Don Mills Road. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on May 30, 2004 - © Cameron Bevers)

Right - Aerial view of the Hwy 404 & Don Valley Parkway Interchange in Toronto, facing south along the Don Valley Parkway towards Downtown Toronto. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on May 30, 2004 - © Cameron Bevers)

Left - Aerial view of the Hwy 404 & Don Valley Parkway Interchange on Hwy 401 in Toronto, facing southwest.
(Photograph taken on May 30, 2004 - © Cameron Bevers)

Right - Aerial view of the Hwy 404 & Don Valley Parkway Interchange on Hwy 401 in Toronto, facing north along Hwy 404 towards Markham. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on May 30, 2004 - © Cameron Bevers)

Left - Aerial view of the McCowan Road Interchange on Hwy 401 in Toronto, facing southeast. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on May 30, 2004 - © Cameron Bevers)

Right - Aerial view of the Hwy 48 (Markham Road) Interchange on Hwy 401 in Toronto, facing southeast.
(Photograph taken on May 30, 2004 - © Cameron Bevers)

Left - Aerial view of the Neilson Road Interchange on Hwy 401 in Toronto, facing south. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on May 30, 2004 - © Cameron Bevers)

Right - Aerial view of the Morningside Avenue Interchange on Hwy 401 in Toronto, facing south. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on May 30, 2004 - © Cameron Bevers)

Left - Aerial view of Meadowvale Road in Toronto, facing south towards the Hwy 401 Interchange. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on May 30, 2004 - © Cameron Bevers)

Right - Aerial view of the Meadowvale Road Interchange on Hwy 401 in Toronto, facing southeast. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on May 30, 2004 - © Cameron Bevers)

Left - Aerial view of the Port Union Road Interchange on Hwy 401 in Toronto, facing west. Note the adjacent interchange with Hwy 2A in the background, and Kingston Road (Hwy 2) at right. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on May 30, 2004 - © Cameron Bevers)

Right - Aerial view of Hwy 2A facing east from Highland Creek towards Hwy 401 and Port Union Road. Note the narrow width of this 1940s era divided highway compared to the current width of Hwy 401. Up until the 1970s, Hwy 401 was of a similar design all the way out to Oshawa. Between 1972 and 1980, Hwy 401 was widened from four to six lanes between Morningside Avenue in Toronto and Ritson Road in Oshawa. Kingston Road (Hwy 2) can be seen paralleling Hwy 2A in this photo. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on May 30, 2004 - © Cameron Bevers)

Left - Rouge River Bridge on Hwy 401 in Toronto. This bridge is actually comprised of four different structures. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on July 8, 2006 - © Cameron Bevers)

Right - View underneath the Rouge River Bridge on Hwy 401 in Toronto. The two express lane spans were completed in 1971, while the newer collector lane spans were completed in 1994. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on July 8, 2006 - © Cameron Bevers)

Left - A solitary piece of broken concrete marks the location of the abutment of the original Hwy 401 bridge across the Rouge River, which was completed in 1942. The new span was built only a few inches to the right of the old abutment. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on July 8, 2006 - © Cameron Bevers)

Right - Eastbound Hwy 401 lanes, facing west the from Rougemount Drive Overpass in Pickering. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on July 8, 2006 - © Cameron Bevers)

Left - Westbound lanes of Hwy 401, facing west from the Rougemount Drive Overpass in Pickering. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on July 8, 2006 - © Cameron Bevers)

Right - Facing east along Hwy 401 from the Rougemount Drive Overpass in Pickering. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on July 8, 2006 - © Cameron Bevers)

Left - The bizarre Rougemount Overpass was built out of alignment with the existing road, in order to simplify construction staging when the old 1939 Rougemount Overpass was replaced in 1995. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on July 8, 2006 - © Cameron Bevers)

Right - The Rougemount Overpass has a very peculiar deck when viewed from road level. As one crosses over Hwy 401 on Rougemount Drive, the other end of the overpass briefly disappears from sight due to a change in the deck's elevation. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on July 8, 2006 - © Cameron Bevers)

Above - The beautiful provincial coat of arms and date stamp from the original 1947 Liverpool Road Bridge in Pickering was thoughtfully preserved when the overpass across Hwy 401 was torn down during the 1980s. This historic piece of Ontario's highway transportation heritage is now on public display on a wall inside the Pickering GO Transit Station. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on August 11, 2007 - © Cameron Bevers)

Left - Close-up of the motto and structure name on the provincial coat of arms removed from the old Liverpool Road Bridge. Many of the post-war bridges built along the Toronto-Oshawa section of Hwy 401 had the structure name incorporated into the coat of arms design. Bridges built on the Toronto-Barrie Highway (Hwy 400) featured the coat of arms only, without the structure name or date stamp included. Artistic features such as this marked the pinnacle of Ontario's commitment to highway and parkway beautification in the 1930s and 1940s. Unfortunately, the 1950s ushered in an era of extreme functionalism, in which highway bridges were designed primarily with economy and utilitarian practicality in mind. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on August 11, 2007 - © Cameron Bevers)

Right - Commemorative plaque beside the Liverpool Road coat of arms. The last surviving bridge bearing the provincial coat of arms and the structure name was the Lawson Road Overpass, which was located on the bypassed portion of Hwy 2A in Toronto. Sadly, the magnificent Lawson Road Bridge was demolished in 2000. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on August 11, 2007 - © Cameron Bevers)

Left - New Liverpool Road Overpass on Hwy 401 in Pickering. Structure completed in 1984. The original Liverpool Road Bridge can be seen in this 1962 Photo. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on August 11, 2007 - © Cameron Bevers)

Right - The old Liverpool Road Bridge was replaced in 1984 because it could only accommodate a 6-lane freeway. The new Liverpool Road Bridge was constructed in such a way that a collector-express lane system could be built along this section of Hwy 401. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on August 11, 2007 - © Cameron Bevers)

Above - Deck view of the Liverpool Road Overpass on Hwy 401. As with the Rougemount Drive Overpass, the new Liverpool Road Bridge was deliberately built out of alignment with the existing roadway in order to simplify construction staging. The two minivans travelling along Hwy 401 in this photo mark the approximate location of the original bridge. The current Liverpool Road Bridge is curved because it was built on a new alignment which bypassed the original structure. See an Enlarged Photo here.
(Photograph taken on August 11, 2007 - © Cameron Bevers)