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I doubt they will ever build a new second bridge further upstream, but maybe a possible secondary route could be made around Lake Nipigon or around Nipigon itself which would allow motorists to bypass the bridge altogether. Green= New possible route around the lake (it looks small because...

When a freeway is built next to an existing highway (ex: Former Hwy 2 and 401) Ontario usually downloads the provincial highway that runs parallel to the freeway. Virtually in every other province and even in the states, the provincial/state highway is usually kept as an alternate route if it's...

The mass downloading in the 90s really screwed up everything. Now theres weird patches of downloaded highway all over the place which should have never been downloaded in the first place. It doesn't make any sense why there is just a random gap in highway 9, or why the highway 7 designation...

One thing that desperatley needs to be fixed is for there to be a better guide signage standard that is consistant across counties and even inside counties themselves. When driving on a provincial highway, you always know to expect those green signs (most of the time) to tell you where you are...

Canada already has a National Highway System albeit not signed at all

No, my point is it would have the same km markers continuing right from the existing hwy 17. If the 417 is extended west, it would just take over more of hwy 17's km markers as it goes

As a side point- why does the 417 km markers go from east to west instead of west to east? This is the only hwy in Ontario I can think of that doesn't use the standard south to north and west to east numbering. If the 417 did have km markers west to east, it would probably carry on Hwy 17's...