407 ETR breaks traffic record
TORONTO — Ontario’s private toll highway, 407 ETR, says it has set a new one-day traffic record.
The news comes as the company celebrated its 10th anniversary of its first-ever tolled trip.
On Friday, October 5, a record 445,822 trips were taken on 407 ETR by those wanting to avoid congestion and jump start their holiday weekend, the highway group says. This beat the previous record of 434,670 trips set on June 22, 2007.
The first day of tolling on Hwy. 407 ETR was October 14, 1997 when the highway was only 36 km long, stretching from Hwy. 410 to Hwy. 404. By 1999, the highway was lengthened to 68 km and privatized, when the former Tory government sold the highway, which runs through mostly just north of Toronto.
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