{"id":37092,"date":"2024-10-06T12:43:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T16:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=37092"},"modified":"2024-10-06T12:43:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T16:43:54","slug":"ontario-may-still-re-acquire-407-etr-to-fix-gridlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=37092","title":{"rendered":"Ontario may still re-acquire 407 ETR to fix gridlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241002-highway-407.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"146\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Premier Doug Ford has assured Ontario residents that &#8220;anything and everything is on the table&#8221; when it comes to solving the GTA&#8217;s torturous\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogto.com\/city\/2024\/10\/ontario-highway-407-etr-buy-back-401-tunnel\/\">Ontario may still re-acquire 407 ETR to fix gridlock<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>sadly, no cost fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>He\u00a0noted that taxpayers collectively dole\u00a0out\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/news-releases\/407-international-reports-2023-results-864064690.html#:~:text=TORONTO%2C%20Feb.,year%20ended%20December%2031%2C%202022.\" target=\"_blank\">more than\u00a0$1.4 billion each year<\/a>\u00a0to use the roadway, which is not nearly as packed as other arteries because of its fees \u2014 fees that go to indirectly owned\u00a0subsidiaries of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Spain-based\u00a0Cintra Global S.E., and\u00a0AtkinsR\u00e9alis Canada Inc., who comprise the\u00a0407 ETR Concession Company Limited.<br>&#8230;<br>The expressway spans 151 km across the Toronto area, from\u00a0Burlington\u00a0to Clarington, in two sections. The first portion, formally the\u00a0407 ETR,\u00a0is 108 km long and is\u00a0owned by the aforementioned private consortium. The provincial government holds the smaller second chunk, referred to as just Highway 407.<br>&#8230;<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>and this explains the difference between 407ETR (the original 407, now owned by a cosnortium, thanks to ???? selling it) and the Ontario=-owned 407 (from Brock Rd. to 115\/35)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Phase\u00a01 of a provincially owned and tolled extension of the route, known solely as Highway 407 (not Highway 407 ETR), opened to traffic from Brock Road in Pickering to Harmony Road in Oshawa on June 20, 2016. Included as part of this extension was the construction of a tolled north\u2013south link between Highways 401 and 407, known as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ontario_Highway_412\">Highway\u00a0412<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ontario_Highway_407#cite_note-phase1-6\">[6]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Phase\u00a02 later extended the provincially owned portion of Highway 407 to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ontario_Highway_35\">Highway\u00a035<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ontario_Highway_115\">Highway\u00a0115<\/a>\u00a0in Clarington. This construction was completed in two stages, with Phase\u00a02A opening on January 2, 2018, as a 9.6\u00a0km (6.0\u00a0mi) extension to Taunton Road,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ontario_Highway_407#cite_note-phase2a-7\">[7]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0and Phase\u00a02B opening on December 9, 2019, as a 23.3\u00a0km (14.5\u00a0mi) extension to Highway\u00a035 and Highway\u00a0115. Included as part of this extension was the construction of another tolled north\u2013south link between Highways 401 and 407, known as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ontario_Highway_418\">Highway\u00a0418<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ontario_Highway_407#cite_note-phase2b-8\">[8]<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier Doug Ford has assured Ontario residents that &#8220;anything and everything is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[149,1541,147],"class_list":["post-37092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-dougie","tag-highways","tag-ontario","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37095,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37092\/revisions\/37095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}