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Highway 2A existed
within the City of Toronto until 1997 as a short expressway stub between the
Lawson Boulevard interchange and Highway 401 at Port Union Road. It was
shortly over three kilometers long when it was transferred to Metropolitan
Toronto. Despite its short length, Highway 2A has a distinguished history.
Highway 2A was the initial name for what has become Highway 401 between
Lawson Road (Highland Creek) in Scarborough and Ritson Road in Oshawa. Prior to Highway 2A,
when a stretch of dual highway was opened to traffic in Ontario, the existing
arterial highway had always
simply been twinned on an existing alignment. Highway 2A was different as,
while it served the purpose of a
twinned Highway 2, Highway 2A was constructed entirely upon its own
alignment. This created a numbering conundrum that was unique to Ontario
at that time. The decision was designate the new highway as an Alternate
routing of Highway 2, hence 2A. Later, in 1952, it was decided that all
new dual-highways should be designated as 400-series highways to distinguish the
freeway network from the arterial highway network. In the 1950s a short
segment of the original Scarborough to Oshawa highway was by-passed by the
Toronto Interceptor Road section of Highway 401 and with that, the short anomalous
Highway 2A designation was retained.
Since being downloaded, the City of Toronto has maintained 'Highway 2A' as the
freeways proper name.
Freeway Entrance sign for Highway 2A
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Western Terminus:
Lawson Road interchange, Kingston Road begins westerly.
Eastern Terminus:
Highway 401 interchange at Port Union Road.
Length: 3.4km
Multiplexes:
None.
Freeway: Entire length.
AADT (1994): Highest:
36 000, entire length of Highway 2A;
Road Info:
Highway 2A is in good shape for its entire length. It has been
reconstructed by the City of Toronto since it was transferred to their
jurisdiction in 1997. Though it is a full freeway, because of its
short length, the speed limit is only 80km/h. |
Communities and Major Intersections along Highway 2A from South to North:
|
Proper Municipality Name |
Community Name |
Distance |
Intersection Name |
| City of Toronto (Scarborough) |
Scarborough |
0 km / 3.8 km |
Highway 2 (Kingston
Road) |
| City of Toronto (Scarborough) |
Scarborough |
1.5 km / 2.4 km |
King's Highway 401 (Highway of
Hero's) |
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