Posted Dec 13, 2019, 1:31 AM
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Its easy to forget that the modern 400 series highway network wasn't complete until the late 1990's. The 416 wasn't built until then as well.
It's a shame that the 407 through Oakville and Burlington got built as the 407 instead of the 403, but hey.
The reason it happened is because the government at the time was extremely cash strapped, so to build the new GTA highways it needed they did the (at the time) planned 35 year toll period to finance it. It was decided that the 403 extension would be built like this as well as the 407, so it got renumbered 407. Then when Harris went to sell the highway, it hadn't yet been built. So as a condition of the sale, the private company had to complete the as of yet unfinished portions of the highway itself. Thus the private company actually built the part through Burlington and Oakville as well as the portion from Markham Road to Brock Road. This is why those two stretches are asphalt paving as well, while the rest of the highway is concrete.
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