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City of Stratford |
 Eastbound
junction assembly for Highway 7 in Stratford.
Photo taken: August 2008. |
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West of Stratford, Highway 7
leads to St Mary's, Elginfield and eventually Sarnia.
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here for Highway 7-West Images. |
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City of Stratford |
View looking
westerly along Highway 7/8 through Downtown Stratford.
Photo taken: July 2007 |
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Township of Perth East
County of Perth |
Looking east from the east
limits of Stratford.
Photo taken: June 10th, 2005. |
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Township of Perth East
County of Perth |
Highway 7/8 curves around a
small lake to create this very pleasant scene.
Photo taken: June 10th, 2005. |
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Township of Perth East
County of Perth |
View looking
west from Highway 59 in Shakespear.
Photo taken: August 1st, 2004 |
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Township of Perth East
County of Perth |
Easterly view
from Highway 59 along Highway 7/8.
Photo taken: August 1st, 2004. |
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Township of Perth East
County of Perth |
The drive from New Hamburg to
Stratford is very pleasant, despite the long lines of traffic that drivers
inevitably encounter.
Photo taken: June 10th, 2005. |
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Township of Perth East
County of Perth |
View of the New Hamburg CPR
overhead -- looking east.
Photo taken: June 10th, 2005. |
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Township of Wilmot
Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
Easterly view at the western
start of the New Hamburg By-pass. Traffic signals were added to this
intersection in 2007.
Photo taken: June 10th, 2005. |
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Township of Wilmot
Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
View looking easterly
approaching the Peel Street intersection. The New Hamburg By-pass was
reconstructed during 2006 and 2007 improving the pavement condition and
intersection geometry.
Photo taken: June 10th, 2005. |
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Township of Wilmot
Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
View looking
west towards Peel Street.
Photo taken: August 1st, 2004. |
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Township of Wilmot
Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
Temporarily mounted traffic
signals at the Bleams Road interchange. Unlike neighbouring
Michigan, traffic signals are
very seldom mounted on overhead wires.
Photo taken: June 10th, 2005. |
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Township of Wilmot
Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
View looking westerly from
Waterloo Road 5. The New Hamburg By-pass was completed in 1957 to
avoid a very awkward routing through the town.
Photo taken: June 10th, 2005. |
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Township of Wilmot
Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
View looking easterly at the
west end of the divided highway at the eastern end of the New Hamburg
By-pass.
Photo taken: June 10th, 2005. |
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Township of Wilmot
Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
View looking westerly from
Sandhills Road towards New Hamburg and Waterloo Road 51.
Photo taken: June 10th, 2005. |
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| Township of Wilmot Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
View looking easterly from
Sandhills Road. Despite the high design standard, Highway 7/8 is only
posted at 90km/h.
Photo taken: June 10th, 2005. |
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| Township of Wilmot Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
This picture is looking west off of the Waterloo
Road 12 overpass west of the city of Kitchener. Before the mid-1990s
the 4-lane divided expressway ended at this interchange, only to restart as
an at grade 4-lane undivided expressway a few kilometres west near New
Hamburg.
Photo taken: June 10th, 2005. |
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| Township of Wilmot Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
View looking easterly from
the Waterloo Road 12 interchange.
Photo taken: June 10th, 2005. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
This view looks west towards
the Trussler Road interchange along Highway 7/8.
Photo taken: June 10th, 2005. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
Easterly view of Highway 7/8
towards the Fischer Hallman Road interchange.
Photo taken: June 10th, 2005. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
This photo shows Highway 7/8
looking west from the Fisher-Hallman Road overpass in Kitchener. The
carriageways split in the foreground only to rejoin a short distance later,
the only reason that I can think of for why the carriages way split and
rejoin in this fashion, is that in the early 1990s the divided Highway 7/8 ended here.
Photo taken: June 10th, 2005. |
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City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
Easterly view of the
Conestoga Parkway from Fischer Hallman Road. The MTO is in preliminary
design to widen the Parkway from Fischer Hallman Road easterly to Courtland
Road.
Photo taken: June 10th, 2005. |
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City of Kitchener Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
Highway 7/8 looking west towards the Courtland
Avenue. interchange from the pedestrian overpass just east of Courtland
Avenue. West of Courtland Avenue, Highway
7/8 has a 4-lane cross-section westerly to
New Hamburg.
Picture taken: September 18th, 2005. Size: 45kb. |
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City of Kitchener Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
Highway 7/8 looking east
from the same pedestrian overpass as the previous picture. The Highway 7/8 interchange is located about 500m east of
this overpass. Highway
7/8 has a 6-lane cross section between
Courtland Avenue and Highway 8-East.
Picture taken: September 18th, 2005. Size: 45kb. |
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City of Kitchener Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
The advanced signage for the
Highway 8 split
from the Conestoga heading eastbound.
Highway 8 leads currently leads
to Highway 401. Before provincial downloading,
Highway 8 continued
eastwards through Cambridge and into Hamilton.
Picture taken: August 1st,
2004. Size: 45kb. |
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City of Kitchener Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
At the eastern Highway 7/8
split the left three most lanes continue eastbound for Highway 7 (and
towards Highway 85). Highway 8 departs
to the Highway 8 freeway via a directional
ramp posted at 50km/h.
Picture taken: August 1st, 2004. Size: 30kb. |
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Highway 7 continues easterly along the Parkway
before departing for Guelph and beyond.
Click here for Highway 7
images. |
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City of Kitchener Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
View
of the start of the Highway 8 freeway from King Street in Kitchener.
Photo taken: September 2008. |
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City of Kitchener Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
Highway 8 driving west at the King Street exit.
At King Street, Highway 8 departs the current freeway alignment heading to
the Conestoga Parkway via a loop ramp. King Street leads travelers
into Downtown Kitchener, and is the former route of Highway 8 before the
Conestoga Parkway was constructed in the late 1960s.
Picture taken: September 18th, 2005. Size: 45kb. |
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City of Kitchener Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
Signage located at the eastbound
Highway 7 split from the Highway 8 freeway. Picture taken: September 18th, 2005. Size: 35kb. |
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City of Kitchener Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
Looking west along Highway 8 from the Franklin
Street overpass. This picture shows the Highway
7/8 interchange in
good detail. The Highway 7/8
interchange was extensively reconstructed as part of a multi-year
construction project completed in 2004. Before this reconstruction,
this interchange was a very substandard half-clo design.
Picture taken: September 18th, 2005. Size: 40kb. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
Highway 8 looking east from the Franklin Street
overpass. As visible from the photo, Highway 8 has a brief depressed
section at Franklin Street. Just east of Franklin Street Highway 8
narrows from 8- to 4-lanes. Currently, the MTO is in the planning
stages of a series of projects that will see Highway 8 to 8-laned
easterly to Highway 401.
Picture taken: September 18th, 2005. Size: 40kb. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
Advanced signage for the upcoming Highway
7/8 interchange located just east of the
Franklin Road overpass. Picture taken: September 18th, 2005. Size:
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
Approaching the Highway 7 interchange along
Highway 8. This diagramical sign has to be one of the most complicated
signs currently installed along an Ontario freeway. Picture taken:
September 18th, 2005. Size: 35kb. |
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City of
Kitchener
Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
Partial
overhead signs are becoming quite common along Ontario Highways.
Photo taken: July 2008. |
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City of
Kitchener
Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
A
rather sharp reversing curve greets Highway 8 travelers just west of Fairway
Road.
Photo taken: July 2008. |
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City of
Kitchener
Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
The
median barrier on the new Fairway Road overpass has been embossed with a
very attractive decorative pattern.
Photo taken: July 2008. |
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City of
Kitchener
Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
Oversized
junction assembly at the Fairway Driver interchange.
Photo taken: July 2008. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
Looking west along Highway 8 across the Grand
River Bridge. The section of freeway across the Grand River between
King Street and Fairway Drive is known as the Freeport Diversion. This
diversion was constructed in 1963 to by-pass the community of Freeport and a
long concrete bowstring bridge, and remains virtually unaltered to this day.
Picture taken: September 24th, 2005. Size: 65kb. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
Driving east along Highway 8 approaching Highway
7187. At this interchange, Highway 8 departs the freeway section and
follows King Street to the 401, and into Cambridge. Although commonly
referred to as Highway 8, Highway 7187 carries freeway traffic bound for the
eastbound 401. (Travelers bound for
the westbound 401 must exit the freeway here).
Picture taken: September 24th, 2005. Size: 40kb. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
Looking west towards Highway 8 across the
Freeport Diversion. The dual structures carrying the freeway over King
Street were constructed in 1987 as part of the larger project to construct a
freeway between the Freeport Diversion and Highway 401
(Hwy 7187). Before 1987, the Freeport Diversion met King Street at an
at-grade intersection.
Picture taken: September 24th, 2005. Size: 75kb. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
A wider angled perspective of the previous
picture. This picture shows a good portion of the Freeport Diversion,
as well as a portion of King Street which carried Highway 8 before the
Freeport Diversion was constructed in 1963.
Picture taken: September 24th, 2005. Size: 85kb. |
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| City of Kitchener Regional
Municipality of Waterloo |
Overhead
signage along King Street for the loop ramp to the expressway.
Westbound Highway 8 traffic must negotiate this loop ramp.
Photo taken: July 2008. |
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The 401 crosses Highway 8 at
the Kitchener/Cambridge boundary.
Click here for Highway 401 images. |
City of
Cambridge
Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
Between
Preston and Galt, Highway 8 is a pleasant divided parkway.
Photo taken: July 2008. |
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City of
Cambridge
Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
There
are several signals between Preston and Galt.
Photo taken: July 2008. |
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Highway 8 meets Highway 24 at
the Delta.
Click here for Highway 24 images. |
City of
Cambridge
Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
View
looking northerly as Highway 8 meets Highway 24 in Cambridge. This
intersection is known locally as the Delta.
Photo taken: October 2008. |
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City of
Cambridge
Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
View
looking westerly at the Maple Bush Road intersection towards Franklin
Boulevard.
Photo taken: August 2008. |
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City of
Cambridge
Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
View
looking westerly from west of Branchton Road. This 4-lane
cross-section is a very old design, and is not typical of most modern king's
highways.
Photo taken: August 2008. |
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City of
Cambridge
Regional Municipality of Waterloo |
Easterly
view towards Branchton Road. MTO jurisdiction over Highway 8 begins
just past the Branchton Road intersection. |
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| City of Hamilton |
View looking easterly towards the current
eastern terminus of Highway 8 at the Highway 5
junction at Peters Corners. This junction also marks the current
western terminus of Highway 5. Straight ahead, Hamilton Road 8
continues east through Dundas into Downtown Hamilton.
Picture taken: May 5th, 2005. Size: 35kb. |
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Highway 8 meets Highway 5 and 52
in Peters Corners. Click
here for Highway 5 images and here for
Highway 52 images. |
| City of Hamilton |
View looking easterly towards Highway 8's
descent down the Niagara Escarpment into Downtown Dundas. Picture taken:
March 28th, 2007. Size: 125kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
View closer to the mountain brow along Highway
8. At the mountain brow, Highway 8 has a sharp curve and quickly
begins to descend the escarpment via a steep access. This curve has a
posted advisory speed of 20km/h.
Picture taken: March 28th, 2007. Low-res: 95kb. High-res: 385kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
View looking east from the top of the escarpment
looking towards Dundas. Note the stone wall that guide rail on the
right side of the photo. The City of Hamilton recently rehabilitated
this stone wall paying careful attention to replicate the wall's ornate
detailing.
Picture taken: March 28th, 2007. Low-res: 90kb. High-res: 380kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Looking east again down the escarpment access.
Highway 8 passes under the CN mainline railway halfway down the escarpment
through a narrow subway. Picture taken: March 28th, 2007. Low-res:
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| City of Hamilton |
Another view of Highway 8 descending the
escarpment access, this time showing the sharp curve traffic needs to
negotiate to pass under the railway overhead. Picture taken: March 28th,
2007. Low-res: 90kb. High-res: 355kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Eastbound view through the CN railway overhead.
Picture taken: March 28th, 2007. Low-res: 75kb. High-res: 320kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
View looking west through the CN railway
overhead. Note the close proximity of the intersection to the railway
overhead. Vehicles departing this side road must do so with the utmost
care. Picture taken: March 28th, 2007. Low-res: 100kb.
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| City of Hamilton |
View of Highway 8 ascending the escarpment from
the railway tracks. Picture taken: March 28th, 2007. Low-res: 95kb.
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| City of Hamilton |
Looking east from just east of the railway
overhead as Highway 8 finishes its descent down the mountain into Dundas.
Picture taken: March 28th, 2007. Size: 85kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Green signage for the western Highway
2/8 junction in Hamilton. Click here
for Highway 2 images (Coming Soon!). Picture size: 40kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Westbound signage for the Highway
2/8 intersection. Click here for
Highway 2 images (Coming Soon!). Picture size: 25kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Highway 2/8 signage in Westdale. Like
other Highway 2/8 shield assemblies, this
sign has been replaced with a Hamilton Road 8 flowerpot. Picture size:
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Highway 403 passes through
Chedoke Valley in Hamilton.
Click here for Highway 403 images. |
| City of Hamilton |
Butterfly gantry displaying Highway
2/8 signs along with Highway 403 signage at the ramp to Highway 403 east.
This sign was replaced early in 2007, and highlight King Street as Hamilton
Road 8 rather than Highway 2/8.
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| City of Hamilton |
Eastbound signage for the eastern Highway
2/8 junction. Click here for Highway 2
images. (Coming Soon!). Picture size: 30kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Westbound signage for the eastern Highway
2/8 junction. Click here for Highway 2
images (Coming Soon!). Picture size: 30kb. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Main Street eastbound from just east of Queen
Street in Hamilton. Picture taken: March 9th, 2008. |
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| City of Hamilton |
View of Main Street looking east towards MacNab
and James Streets. Picture taken: March 9th, 2008. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Westerly
view of Highway 8 as it nears Dewitt Road, and the suburban boundary of
Stoney Creek.
Photo taken: May 2008. |
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| City of Hamilton |
View
looking west towards the Fruitland Road intersection.
Photo taken: May 2008. |
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| City of Hamilton |
This
forgotten stretch of Highway 8 is dwarfed by the Niagara Escarpment.
Photo taken: May 2008. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Its
hard to believe that this stretch of road was a provincial highway until
1997. This is the Fifty Road intersection.
Photo taken: May 2008. |
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| City of Hamilton |
Between
1972 and 1997 Highway 8 ended at the Niagara border. At one time,
Number 8 continued as far east as Niagara Falls. Anyone who has driven
the old route of Highway 8 between this point and Niagara Falls will
understand why it was downloaded so early.
Photo taken: May 2008. |
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