KING`S HIGHWAY NO. 427
EARLY 1990s
| Facing south towards the terminus of the southbound Highway 427 ramp to The Queensway. It is amazing to be reminded of how unimpressive this interchange was before the great Sherway Garden access upgrades of 2000-2002. May of 1995. |
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| The unofficial end of the Highway 427 collector lanes at The Queensway. The ramp to the left is still technically part of Highway 427 and leads to Brown`s Line and Evans Avenue. May of 1995. |
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| Advance signage for The Queensway (known to the MTO as "Queensway Avenue") located on the southbound Highway 427 collector lanes in Etobicoke. Since about 2001, MTO signage has referred to The Queensway by its proper name. May of 1995. |
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| Overhead gantry located on the soutbound Highway 427 collector lanes at the QEW exit ramp. The QEW is not directly accessible via the collector lanes, so all non-local traffic must exit to the left. May of 1995. |  |
| Exit signage for the final core to collector transfer ramp located on soutbound Highway 427, just north of Bloor Street. The Bloor Street overpass is visible in the background. May of 1995. |  |
| Shot of the advance QEW signage on the southbound Highway 427 collector lanes, just north of Bloor Street. A nice reminder of the days when the QEW existed east of Highway 427. May of 1995. |  |
| Overhead gantry located at the Burnhamthorpe Road exit on southbound Highway 427. This is the only remaining gantry on southbound Highway 427 that has not been altered to this day. May of 1995. |   |
| Overhead gantry for the Highway 5/Dundas Street core to collector slip ramp, roughly equal distance between the Rathburn Road and Burnhamthorpe Road interchanges. This gantry was toppled by a collision with a truck in May of 2006. May of 1995. |  |
| Looking south along the southbound Highway 427 express lanes just south of the Rathburn Road overpass. May of 1995. |  |
| Looking south along the southbound Highway 427 collector lanes towards the Rathburn Road overpass. May of 1995. |  |
| Overhead gantry located on the southbound Highway 427 express lanes at the Burnhamthorpe Road transfer ramp. Although Highway 427 pullthrough signage is shown in this 1991 shot, sometime in the mid 1990s, the Highway 5 advance signage in the background was moved northerly to this gantry. April of 1991. |  |
| Advance signage for the Burnhamthorpe Road core to collector ramp located on southbound Highway 427, about 400 metres south of Highway 401. May of 1995. |   |
| Looking south along soutbound Highway 427 as it weaves its way through the Richview megachange. There is something haunting about the sky in these photos from the 1995 set. May of 1995. |  |
| Looking south along soutbound Highway 427 at the Highway 401 WEST exit ramp in Etobicoke. A nice shot of a couple of bilingual signs that at this time were barely two years old. May of 1995. |  |
| Advance signage for Highway 401 WEST located on southbound Highway 427. Comparing these bilingual advance signs with the older 80s style signs, you will notice that the phrase "2 LANES" is omitted. I suppose the MTO could have gone with signs that read "2 LANES/VOIES DEUX" but I suppose they would look too cluttered. May of 1995. |  |
| Overhead gantry located at the Eglinton Avenue exit from soutbound Highway 427, about 300 metres north of the Highway 401 WEST exit. Notice that the Eglinton Avenue exit is two lanes in 1995, compared to just one lane today. A relic from the Richview Expressway days? May of 1995. |  |
| A shot of southbound Highway 427 near Pearson International Airport in Etobicoke, with that familiar stubby airport lighting in the background. May of 1995. |  |