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Queen Elizabeth Way and Associated Highways

By RobertArcher
Apr 29, 2024
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QEW Stavebank Ped Bridge (As part of Credit River Bridge upgrades a pedestrian overpass near Stavebank Road is being built. April 22 2024.)

Ogden Pedestrian Bridge Removed

Applewood Plaza (Widening the highway and North Service Road at Applewood Plaza)

Applewood Plaza Looking East (Construction work on QEW and Noeth Service Road.)

Applewood Plaza Looking East (Near Standfield Road)

Directional Sign Oakville

Fort Erie Bound passing Lundys Lane Niagara Falls.

Southdown north to QEW Toronto

Directional sign at end of Toronto bound exit.

Secondary sign at end of Toronto bound exit.

Bilingual Signs for ramp meter. Southdown Road to QEW Toronto.

Directional sign for Hamilton bound ramp. Southdown Road.

Exit ramp from Toronto bound lanes at Southdown Road.

South Sheridan Way directional sign.

Mississauga sign eastbound QEW

QEW eastbound at Dixie (A view of the overpass that is being replaced.)

QEW marker sign

Merge from Royal Windsor Drive (on to Hamilton bound lanes.)

Garden City Skyway Bridge - QEW - St. Catharines

Changeable Safety Sign.

QEW exit sign may 2 2011

HOV Ends (The QEW/403 has an HOV lane in each direction in Oakville and Burlington. This is the sign indicating the end of the HOV lane on the eastbound highway. The tall mast in the background holds a TV camera for the COMPASS traffic control system,)

Eastbound QEW at Guelph Line

Toronto bound QEW and 403 Merge (The lanes to the left are the Toronto bound QEW coming from the James N.Allen Burlington Bay Skyway Bridge. The lanes on the right are the eastbound 403. The 403 will be co-signed with the QEW for 22 kilometers to Oakville where the two highways diverge.)

Canada Customs Compound Fort Erie (This is Kilometer 0 of the QEW. The Peace Bridge Customs compound in Fort Erie Ontario. Commercial Vehicles are directed here to clear their shipments.)

Peace Bridge to USA (The Peace Bridge is the link between Canada and the USA. Buffalo, an important New York State city, is on the US side.)

Gardiner Expressway approaching Spadina (The F.G. Gardiner Expressway is the continuation road leading into downtown Toronto. This road was never a Provincial highway and the Province of Ontario actually downloaded the QEW from Highway 427 to the Humber River to the City including it into the Gardiner. Despite all the squabbling who will pay for maintenance it is essentially one highway for motorists.)

Erin Mills Pkwy. Southdown Road (Toronto Bound 126 km from Fort Erie.
Erin Mills Pkwy is north of QEW
Southdown Road to south.
H indicates exit for Credit Valley Hospital)

Oakville Downtown sign (Niagara Bound lanes showing route sign for downtown Oakville.)

Winston Churchill Boulevard sign (Niagara bound lanes)

Upgraded centre barrier and high mast lighting

Winston Churchill Ramp (Winston Churchill southbound to QEW Toronto bound.)

Port Credit Detachment (There was a major Ontario Provincial Police station at the intersection of Highway 10 (Hurontario) and the QEW. It was closed in 2020 and its replacement was opened on Highway 401 near Mississauga Road.)

QEW access sign (The project at the QEW and Highway 403 extends to Winston Churchill Blvd. It continues into 2021)

Grimsby - eastbound (The first days of the Covid-19 Pandemic lock down.
Arnold Mooney photo.)

Hurontario to Toronto Ramp (Northbound Hurontario to Eastbound QEW.)

QEW - 427 Junction (The ramp from southbound 427 to westbound QEW in Toronto.)

16 Mile Creek Oakville (December 2012)

16 Mile creek Oakville (July 2007 before bridge widening)

Bilingual signs (There are traffic meter lights are the bottom of the Toronto bound ramp to the QEW at Winston Churchill Blvd. For some reason The MTO has erected a sign in French as well as English.)

Burlington Bay Skyway (Top of the bridge - Toronto bound side.)

Burlington Bay Skyway-AWM (Picture before the second bridge was added at the Skyway Bridge.)

Burlington Skyway Bridge approach (Toronto Bound lanes climbing to top of the bridge.)

CREDIT RIVER BRIDGE (The widening of the QEW at the Credit River has begun.
Seen from the corner of Stavebank Road north and Premium Way.)

Credit River Bridge - 2

Credit River Bridge 3

Destination Hamilton (Hamilton is the destination city for westbound QEW at Winston Churchill Blvd.)

Distance sign on Highway 405 (Highway 405 connects the Queenston Lewiston Bridge to USA with the QEW at the east end of the Garden City Skyway in St Catharines. No local traffic is permitted past Stanley Avenue. This is for motorists who have entered Canada.
Prior to Y2004 local traffic could exit just before the Q-L bridge but Security Improvemnts changed that.)

DIXIE ROAD OVERPASS

Dorval Drive Kerr Street Exit Ramp (Hamilton (west) bound in Oakville.)

early construction at Dixie Road

Formerly Highway 122 (This is Royal Windsor Driver just off the QEW in Oakville.
Highway 122 was designed to be a feeder road for Ford's Oakville Assembly Plant. This is a railway underpass with 1950's design features. Immediately behind is another railway overpass but od steel girder construction.
Highway 122 was eventually routed out to Southdown Road in Clarkson. It was downloaded to the two municipalities on April 1 1970)

Garden City Skyway (Approaching the top of the Garden City Skyway bridge .
May 2008.)

Garden City Skyway 1 (2008-05-10)

garden city skyway 2 (Coming to the bottom of the brisge,
May 8 2005)

Gardiner Expressway @sunnyside (Eastbound on Gardiner Exprerssway passing Sunnyside district of Toronto. March 2005)

Hamilton Bound - Grimsby (Hamilton bound (west) approaching Grimsby. May 11 2008)

Hamilton Bound at Erin Mills Pkwy (Here we see the Hamilton bound lanes as they pass over the Southdown Road Erin Mills Parkway interchange in Mississauga.)

Highway 405 and QEW Junction

Highway 427 QEW Junction (The QEW now starts somewhere at the Highway 427 junction. Here we see the southbound 427 merge lanes to the Hamilton Bound QEW.)

Mississauga Road Exit (Sign for exit ramp from east bound QEW)

Niagara 1 (This sign on the Queensway in Etobicoke shows Niagara as the destination . There was construction on the ramp which was subject to some closures.)

Niagara 2 (Sign showing detour route.)

Niagara 3 (En Francais)

Niagara 4 (Aussi en francais)

Oakville Scale WB (LiquiTerminal on the scales headed westbound circa 2002.)

Ogden Avenue Pedestrian Bridge - 001 (This was built in the early 1960's to allow school children from housing developments on the north side of the QEW to safely cross the highway to attend the schools which were built along Ogden Avenue. It is to be replaced during the upcoming reconstruction of the QEW between Browns Line and Cawthra Road.)

Ogden Ped Bridge - 002

Ogden Ped Bridge - 003

Ogden Ped Bridge - 004

Peace Bridge (The QEW connects to the Peace Bridge at Fort Erie. The two flags in the centre mark the International Border over the Niagara River. Buffalo is on the US side.)

QE-427 interchange (The east (Toronto|) end of the QEW after 1995. The lanes to the right are leading to Highway 427 north. Continuing straight is the FG Gardiner Expressway owned and maintained by the City of Toronto.
March 2005)

QEW -near Grimsby (QEW between Hamilton and St Catharines.
Exit 64 near Grimsby.)

QEW Construction Warning Sign

QEW at Beamsville (Arnold Mooney shot of the QEW at Grimsby in 1994. Just before the road was widened to three lanes each way.)

QEW at Third Line (From circa 2005 or 06 we are westbound approaching Third Line Road exit in Oakville.)

QEW construction (High mast lighting and guard rail replacement west of Winston Churchill.)

QEW east at Winston Churchill Blvd (The QEW enters Mississauga. We are looking east from the Winston Churchill Blvd overpass.)

QEW Hamilton (Hurontario south to QEW west.)

QEW Hamilton bound at Third Line Road exit in Oakville (Circa 2005 or 06 westbound on QEW near the Third Line Road exit.)

QEW Niagara bound (May 2008 Between Grimsby and Jordan)

QEW Pedestrian Tunnel (There was a tunnel built to provide a safe crossing of the QEW near Hurontario / Centre Road/ Highway 10 . This would have been primarily for the students attending Queen Elizabeth school on South Service Road.)

QEW Pedestrian Tunnel (North portal)

QEW tunnel south portal

QEW westbound Oakville (June 2005)

QEW- CN subway (Picture from May 2005. This is Plains Road today but was an earlier alignment of the QEW in Burlington.)

Rainbow Bridge Niagara Falls (The Rainbow Bridge, just downstream from the Falls of Niagara, is the end of Highway 420; a short expressway to connect the QEW to Niagara Falls .
December 2005.)

The Monument (This statue was unveiled in 1939 just prior to the outbreak of World War II to mark the eastern end of the QEW in Toronto. Too many cars collided with it so it was moved to a location near Lake Ontario.
As Queen Elizabeth, wife of Kung George, it was dedicated.
As Queen Mother it was dedicated again at its relocated spot.)

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