King's Highway 124 - Images

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Township of Strong

District of Parry Sound

View looking easterly towards the unfinished Highway 11 partial cloverleaf interchange.  This interchange has since been completed and opened to traffic.

Picture taken: August 28th, 2011.

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Township of Strong

District of Parry Sound

Southbound green signage along the off-ramp to Highway 124 South from Highway 11.  Highway 124 changes direction at the southern Highway 11 interchange.  Highway 124 is signed as an east-west route between Parry Sound and Sundridge, and as a north-south highway from Sundridge northerly.
Photo taken: October 8th, 2011.

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Highway 11 by-passes South River and Sundridge to the west.  Click here for Highway 11 images.
Township of Strong

District of Parry Sound

Looking easterly towards Sundridge along Highway 124 from mid-span of the Highway 11 overpass.

Photo taken: October 8th, 2011.

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Township of Strong

District of Parry Sound

View of the now obsolete (and now removed) Highway 124 ends signage at the former eastern terminus south of Sundridge.  This signage was rendered obsolete when Highway 124 was extended through Sundridge and South River along Highway 11's former routing following the completion of the new Highway 11 freeway in 2011.
Photo taken: May 29th, 2004.

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Township of Strong

District of Parry Sound

This is the former northbound junction assembly at the former at-grade intersection between Highways 11 and 124 south of Sundridge.

Photo taken: May 29th, 2004.

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Township of Strong

District of Parry Sound

This view looks northerly from the Highway 124 junction along Highway 11 into Sundridge taken before any construction had begun to realign Highway 11 onto a new freeway by-pass around both Sundridge and South River.

Photo taken: May 29th, 2004.

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Township of Strong

District of Parry Sound

For decades Sundridge was the largest town that Highway 11 passed through between Huntsville and North Bay.  These unique signs reminds motorists to heed the speed limit through the village.

Photo taken: March 5th, 2012.
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Township of Strong

District of Parry Sound

View looking north towards the start of the northbound passing lane between Sundridge and South River.

Photo taken: June 17th, 2006.


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Township of Strong

District of Parry Sound

A right-hand curve looking north along Highway 124.  The CN Railway parallels Highway 124 closely between South River and Sundridge.

Photo taken: June 17th, 2006.


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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

View looking southerly along Highway 124 towards Sundridge at the Strong/Machar Boundary Road.  There is one southbound passing lane between South River and Sundridge.

Photo taken: June 17th, 2006.


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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

Looking south through South River towards the end of the urban 4-lane segment of highway.  Highway 124 has a 4-lane cross-section through South River's urbanized area.  This photo was taken, five years prior to the opening of the new Highway 11 freeway to the west of South River.  Take note of the abandoned fuel station on the eastern side of today's Highway 124 -- this fuel station was obviously abandoned long before the small community was by-passed.
Photo taken: June 4th, 2006.

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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

Looking north towards the signalized intersection at Ottawa Avenue in South River.  Before the completion of the Highway 11 freeway, this intersection was one of three signalized intersections along Highway 11 between Barrie and North Bay.

Photo taken: June 4th, 2006.


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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

Looking south through South River towards the Ottawa Avenue signalized intersection.

Photo taken: June 4th, 2006.


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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

Signage in the southbound direction advising passing motorists that Highway 11 was redesignated as Highway 124 during the summer of 2011.

Photo taken: October 8th, 2011.
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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

Two views looking northerly as the highway (first Highway 11 and now Highway 124) climbs the long grade out of South River.  A considerable portion of Highway 124 was realigned along this grade to make way for the Highway 11 interchange that opened at the top of the hill in September of 2011.

Upper photo taken: June 17th, 2006.

Lower photo taken: October 8th, 2011.


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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

Two views looking southerly into South River.

Upper photo taken: June 17th, 2006.

Lower photo taken: October 8th 2011.

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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

Two views looking northerly from about halfway up the large hill leading out of South River.  The upper photo was taken in 2006 and shows the cleared right of way for the diversion that now carries Highway 124 to the Highway 11 interchange; the lower photo shows the completed diversion with the pavement and granulars removed from the former alignment of Highway 11.

Upper photo taken: June 17th, 2006.

Lower photo taken: October 8th, 2011.

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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

Southbound reassurance marker along Highway 124 located just south of the northern Highway 11 interchange.

Photo taken: October 8th, 2011.

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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

View looking northerly along Highway 124 approaching the northbound on-ramp to Highway 11.

Photo taken: October 8th, 2011.

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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

Two views, one taken during construction, the other taken shortly after the new highway opened, showing the ramp from Highway 124 South to Highway 11 North.  Motorists wishing to execute this maneuver must turn left from Highway 124 South onto a slip road and then turn left once again onto the ramp.  This unusual ramp configuration was constructed due to the topography that surrounds the northern Highway 11/124 interchange.  A similar interchange configuration was constructed nearly a decade earlier in the early 2000s at the Rankin Lake Road interchange along Highway 400.

Upper photo taken: August 28th, 2011.

Lower photo taken: October 8th, 2011.

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Highway 11 is the principle route between  Toronto and North Bay.  Click here for Highway 11 images.
Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

This August 2011 view shows the structure that carries Highway 124 overtop of Highway 11 just prior to the completion of the freeway.

Photo taken: August 28th, 2011.

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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

Two views looking southerly down the large hill that carries the highway into South River.  Because the new alignment of Highway 124 winds around the Highway 11 interchange, the new alignment makes a far less dramatic descent into South River compared to the former alignment of Highway 11.

Upper photo taken: May 29th, 2004.

Lower photo taken: October 8th, 2011. 

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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

Southerly view along Highway 124 at the north ramp terminal of the northern Highway 11 interchange.

Photo taken: October 8th, 2011.

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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

Two views looking northerly from north of the northern Highway 11 interchange.  The northbound passing lane that is pictured in the upper (2004) photo was removed during the construction of the Highway 11 freeway around South River and Sundridge.  With the completion of the new freeway, traffic volumes are much lower along the former alignment of Highway 11 that remains (today's Highway 124) and no longer warrant a dedicated passing lane.

Upper photo taken: May 29th, 2004.

Lower photo taken:  March 5th, 2012.

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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

View looking northerly in 2006 at the temporary end of the divided highway 11.  This configuration existed as shown between 2004 and 2011.  An up to date 2012 view of this location will be added in the future.

Photo taken: June 18th, 2006. 

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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

This curve diversion was constructed in 2003 and carried Highway 11 traffic during both 2003 and 2004.  When the Highway 11 freeway was extended southerly from Trout Creek in 2004, this curve was closed to traffic as the new freeway alignment of Highway 11 tied into the existing road just to the south of this curve.  In the September, 2011, this curve was reopened to traffic as part of Highway 124.
Photo taken: June 4th, 2006.

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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

From 2004 to 2011, Highway 124 was barricaded just south of Chrest Drive.  As was noted in the commentary above, this photo was also taken during the time when the Highway 11 freeway tied into the existing alignment of Highway 11 just south of Chrest Drive.

Photo taken: June 4th, 2006.

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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

This wintertime view looks southerly along Highway 124 nearing the Chrest Drive intersection north of South River.  This view provides an interesting snap shot of the history of Highway 11.  The original Department of Northern Development Northern Trunk Road that became Highway 11 in 1937 is visible as a narrow clearing through the trees to the east of the divided highway.  The first alignment of Highway 11 was bypassed by today's Highway 124 in 1948; this semgent carried the Highway 11 designation until 2004.  Finally the pictured divided highway opened in two distinct stages in 2004 and 2011 respectively.
Photo taken: March 5th, 2012.

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Township of Machar

District of Parry Sound

Sign explaining that the Highway 124 designation was extended along the former alignment of Highway 11 as far north as Summit Drive north of South River.

Photo taken: October 8th, 2011.
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