This page contains historical and present day photos of Ontario's King's Highway 88. All photographs displayed on
this page were taken by the Webmaster (Cameron Bevers), unless specifically noted otherwise. Historical photographs are arranged in approximate chronological order,
while present day photographs (Year 2000 to date) are arranged by location from west to east. Click on any thumbnail to see a larger image!
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Historical King's Highway 88 Photographs
Above - Hwy 400 facing north approaching the Hwy 88 Cloverleaf near Bradford. Photo taken on November 5, 1953. (Photo © Archives of Ontario - Series RG-14-162-5-163, Box B986, Photo #607)
Left - Facing north along Hwy 400 towards Barrie at the Hwy 88 Interchange near Bradford. Photo taken in May 1962. (Photo courtesy of Ontario Ministry of Transportation - © King's Printer for Ontario, 2010) Right - Hwy 88 Interchange on Hwy 400 near Bradford, facing west towards Bond Head. Photo taken in May 1962. (Photo courtesy of Ontario Ministry of Transportation - © King's Printer for Ontario, 2010)
Left - Facing north along Hwy 400 towards the Hwy 88 Overpass near Bradford. Photo taken on July 24, 1978. (Photo courtesy of Ontario Ministry of Transportation - © King's Printer for Ontario, 2010) Right - Facing east along Hwy 88 towards Bradford at the Hwy 400 Overpass. Photo taken on July 24, 1978. (Photo courtesy of Ontario Ministry of Transportation - © King's Printer for Ontario, 2010)
Above - View underneath the Hwy 88 Overpass, facing north towards Barrie When Hwy 400 was widened to six lanes between Toronto and Barrie in 1971-1972, the
width of the weaving lane at all of the cloverleaf interchanges on Hwy 400 had to be reduced in order to fit the lane through the overpass alongside the new six-lane
freeway. This proved to be a very economical interim solution, since it spared the exorbitant cost of having to rebuild all of the overpasses on Hwy 400 or
reconfigure the cloverleaf interchanges. Many of the old cloverleaf interchanges were later reconfigured to diamond interchanges to improve traffic operations. Until
recent years, the Hwy 88 Cloverleaf was the only surviving interchange of this design left on Hwy 400. However, it too was converted to a diamond interchange during
an interchange reconfiguration project in 2010-2011. Photo taken on July 24, 1978. (Photo courtesy of Ontario Ministry of Transportation - © King's Printer for Ontario, 2010)
Left - Facing west along Hwy 88 towards Bond Head from the Hwy 400 Overpass near Bradford (April 29, 1981) (Photo courtesy of Ontario Ministry of Transportation - © King's Printer for Ontario, 2010) Right - Facing east along Hwy 88 towards Bradford at the Hwy 400 Overpass (April 29, 1981) (Photo courtesy of Ontario Ministry of Transportation - © King's Printer for Ontario, 2010)
Above - Northern side of the Hwy 88 Overpass near Bradford in 1985, showing the new concrete barrier wall built during the rehabilitation of the bridge in
1983. See an Enlarged Photo Here. Photo taken in September 1985. (Photo courtesy of Ontario Ministry of Transportation - © King's Printer for Ontario, 2010) |
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Present Day King's Highway 88 Photographs
Above - Sign assembly at the Hwy 88 & Hwy 27 Junction in Bond Head. (Photograph taken on August 2, 2007 - © Cameron Bevers)
Left - Facing east along Hwy 88 towards Bradford from the Hwy 27 Junction in Bond Head. (Photograph taken on August 2, 2007 - © Cameron Bevers) Right - Western terminus of Hwy 88 at the Hwy 27 Junction in Bond Head. (Photograph taken on August 2, 2007 - © Cameron Bevers)
Left - Facing north along Hwy 400 towards Barrie from the Hwy 88 Overpass near Bradford. At the time this photo was taken in 2003, the Hwy 88 Interchange was
still a full eight-ramp cloverleaf. The four inner loop ramps at the Hwy 88 Interchange were closed off to traffic in 2011. See an
Enlarged Photo here. (Photograph taken on December 28, 2003 - © Cameron Bevers) Right - Facing south along Hwy 400 towards Toronto from the Hwy 88 Overpass. The Hwy 88 Interchange provides the main access route into Bradford from Hwy 400. A second interchange was built at nearby 5th Line in 2016-2017, in order to serve this rapidly expanding town. See an Enlarged Photo here. (Photograph taken on December 28, 2003 - © Cameron Bevers)
Left - Facing east along Hwy 88 towards Bradford from the Hwy 400 Interchange. Hwy 88 was recently widened from two to four lanes between Hwy 400 and Bradford.
See an Enlarged Photo here. (Photograph taken on December 28, 2003 - © Cameron Bevers) Right - Facing west along Hwy 88 towards Bond Head from the Hwy 400 Interchange. When the inner loop ramps of the cloverleaf interchange were closed off to traffic, new traffic signals were installed at the two remaining ramps terminals. The west ramp terminal was converted to a four-leg intersection a number of years ago, due to the construction of a commuter carpool lot within the southwest loop ramp. See an Enlarged Photo here. (Photograph taken on December 28, 2003 - © Cameron Bevers)
Left - Facing east along Hwy 88, showing the old cloverleaf ramps to and from Hwy 400. When Hwy 400 first opened to traffic between Toronto and Barrie in the
early 1950s, there were a total of five full eight-ramp cloverleaf interchanges along the highway. Over the years, the other four cloverleaf interchanges were gradually
reconstructed. The Hwy 88 Cloverleaf was the last of its kind along Hwy 400, until it too was reconfigured into a diamond interchange in 2011. See an
Enlarged Photo here. (Photograph taken on December 28, 2003 - © Cameron Bevers) Right - Facing west along Hwy 88, showing the cloverleaf ramp configuration on the east side of the Hwy 400 Interchange. See an Enlarged Photo here. (Photograph taken on December 28, 2003 - © Cameron Bevers)
Left - Northeast quadrant of the Hwy 88 and Hwy 400 Interchange near Bradford, showing the older bi-directional ramp. Interchanges built in Ontario during the
1940s and 1950s commonly had shared two-way ramps, which were then split off into one-way roadways by a traffic island on the approach to the freeway. Bi-directional
ramps such as these are becoming very uncommon on today's freeways, as older interchanges are upgraded or replaced. See an
Enlarged Photo here. (Photograph taken on December 28, 2003 - © Cameron Bevers) Right - Southern side of the Hwy 88 Overpass on Hwy 400 near Bradford. This single-span concrete rigid frame structure was completed in 1950. See an Enlarged Photo here. (Photograph taken on December 28, 2003 - © Cameron Bevers)
Left - Heading down the eastbound Hwy 88 on-ramp to northbound Hwy 400. Full eight-ramp cloverleaf interchanges such as the one at Hwy 400 & Hwy 88 were
once quite common on Ontario's freeways. Over the past few decades, nearly all of them have been replaced with new interchanges or retrofitted in some way. The Hwy 88
Cloverleaf on Hwy 400 was somewhat unique, in that it remained more or less the same for 60 years. It was retrofitted into a diamond interchange configuration in
2011. See an Enlarged Photo here. (Photograph taken on December 28, 2003 - © Cameron Bevers) Right - Hwy 400 merge lane underneath the Hwy 88 Overpass, showing the short and very narrow weaving lane. Over the years, highway lanes in Ontario have gotten progressively wider from 3.05 metres (10 feet) in the 1930s to 3.75 metres (12.3 feet) today. As a result, the weaving lanes at older interchanges tend to get squeezed through narrow bridge structures. See an Enlarged Photo here. (Photograph taken on December 28, 2003 - © Cameron Bevers)
Above - Northern side of the Hwy 88 Overpass on Hwy 400 west of Bradford. See an
Enlarged Photo here. (Photograph taken on April 10, 2005 - © Cameron Bevers)
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