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King's Highway 401 is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario stretching 817.9 kilometers (508.2 mi). The portion that passes through Toronto is the busiest highway in the world, and one of the widest (18 lanes pictured near Toronto Pearson International Airport). By the end of 1952, three individual highways were numbered "Highway 401": the partially completed Toronto Bypass between Weston Road and Highway 11; Highway 2A between West Hill and Newcastle; and the Scenic Highway between Gananoque and Brockville. The route was expanded across the province, and became fully navigable from Windsor to the Quebec border on November 10, 1964. In 1965 it was designated the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway, in honour of the Fathers of Confederation, and it became a freeway for its entire length in 1968. A portion of the highway was designated the Highway of Heroes in 2007, as the road is travelled by funeral convoys for fallen Canadian Forces personnel from CFB Trenton to the coroner's office in Toronto. In 2011 construction began on a westward extension of Highway 401 that will be known as the Herb Gray Parkway and extend to Interstate 75 via a new international crossing. (Full article...)

Did you know ...

• ...that in 1967, women helped construct Interstate 29 in Iowa because there was a shortage of male workers?
• ...that Florida State Road A1A was renumbered from State Road 1 in 1946 in order to reduce confusion with nearby U.S. Route 1?
• ...that a rest area along Interstate 295 in New Jersey was named in honor of Howard Stern by Governor Christine Todd Whitman as payback for Stern granting Whitman airtime during her 1993 gubernatorial campaign?
• ...that the St. Clair Parkway travels through Corunna, Ontario, a planned town intended to be the capital of a united Upper and Lower Canada when it was established in 1823?
• ...despite the Reno Arch's (pictured) modern association with gambling, the arch was originally built to celebrate the completion of the Lincoln and Victory Highways?

In the news

• Caltrans announces a paused safety improvement project will resume. The project affects the grade along US 395 over Conway Summit and will include wider shoulders, rumble strip median separating lanes, and lighting and space to implement a dedicated chain up area for when chain controls are in effect while crossing the pass.
• The Arizona Department of Transportation completes the reconstruction of a key bridge along Interstate 15 in Arizona in the remote Virgin River Gorge, fully reopening the freeway.
• A truck fire damages a bridge on Interstate 95 in Norwalk, Connecticut, resulting in a freeway closure of over three days.
• Open road tolling is introduced along the Ohio Turnpike.
• The technology included in a rebuilt portion of Interstate 94 in Michigan enters testing phase. The reconstruction was privately funded and includes features designed for a beta test to support guiding autonomous vehicles.
• A key portion of State Route 37, an expressway running along the northern shore of the San Pablo Bay in the northern extremity of the San Francisco Metropolitan Area will be fully closed on weekends in April for reconstruction, forcing motorists on a detour through Napa Valley
• Part of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, carrying Interstate 695 in Baltimore, Maryland, collapses after a container ship strikes a pillar.

Ongoing: I-69 Extension (IN), I-405 Expansion (WA)

Historic byways

• May 12, 1971 – A gap in New York's stretch of Interstate 84 from NY 311 to NY 22 is bridged
• May 14, 1969 – The final section of Interstate 5 in Washington, between Everett and Marysville, is completed and opened to traffic.
• May 15, 1969 – I-690 is extended from the Onondaga Interchange to Midler Avenue
• May 16, 1957 – The Walt Whitman Bridge is opened between New Jersey and Pennsylvania, later to carry I-76
• May 17, 1949 – The William A. Stickel Memorial Bridge opens over the Passaic River from Newark, New Jersey, the first section of NJ 58 to open

Selected pictures

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  Western portal of the Hanging Lake Tunnel in Glenwood Canyon along Interstate 70 in Colorado

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  Interstate 40 near Flagstaff, [Arizona

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  Eastbound on U.S. Route 20A and New York State Route 15 in Lakeville

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  Nevada State Route 208 following the Walker River towards Yerington, Nevada

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  An unused section of Interstate 189 in Burlington, Vermont, looking south

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  The Seven Mile Bridge connects Big Pine Key and Marathon along U.S. Route 1 in Florida.

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  Cirrus clouds hover over Pennsylvania Route 144 in Noyes Township, Clinton County

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  Interstate 10 westbound passing downtown Houston

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  View east along Interstate 80 from an overpass approaching Carlin Canyon in Nevada

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  State Road 45 west of Trevlac, Indiana

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  Scenic vista along the Apache Trail northeast of the Phoenix metropolitan area.

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  A view from McCarthy Road near McCarthy, Alaska

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  Truck passing a wheat field near Waterville, Washington

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  A view of the Columbia River gorge from Crown Point

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  The Million Dollar Highway between the Red Mountain Pass and Ouray, Colorado

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