Highway 401

King’s Highway 401
King’s Highway 401
Strekning
LandCanada
Data
Lengde828 km
Highway 401 på Commons

Highway 401 er en motorvei i den canadiske provinsen Ontario.

Den løper 828 km fra Windsor i vest til grensen mot Quebec i øst. Den delen av Highway 401 som passerer gjennom Toronto er Nord-Amerikas mest trafikkerte motorvei,[1][2] og en av de bredeste.[3][4]

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  1. ^ Allen, Paddy (11. juli 2011). «Carmageddon: The World's Busiest Roads». The Guardian. Guardian News & Media Ltd. Arkivert fra originalen . Besøkt 11. juli 2014. 
  2. ^ Maier, Hanna (9. oktober 2007), Long-Life Concrete Pavements in Europe and Canada, Federal Highway Administration, http://international.fhwa.dot.gov/pubs/pl07027/llcp_07_02.cfm, besøkt 1. mai 2010, «The key high-volume highways in Ontario are the 400-series highways in the southern part of the province. The most important of these is the 401, the busiest highway in North America, with average annual daily traffic (AADT) of more than 425,000 vehicles in 2004 and daily traffic sometimes exceeding 500,000 vehicles.» 
  3. ^ Canadian NewsWire (6. august 2002), Ontario Government Investing $401 Million to Upgrade Highway 401, Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, «Highway 401 is one of the busiest highways in the world and represents a vital link in Ontario's transportation infrastructure, carrying more than 400,000 vehicles per day through Toronto.» 
  4. ^ Thün, Geoffrey; Velikov, Kathy. «The Post-Carbon Highway». Alphabet City. Arkivert fra originalen 5. juli 2010. Besøkt 2. januar 2012. «It is North America's busiest highway, and one of the busiest in the world. The section of Highway 401 that cuts across the northern part of Toronto has been expanded to eighteen lanes, and typically carries 420,000 vehicles a day, rising to 500,000 at peak times, as compared to 380,000 on the I-405 in Los Angeles or 350,000 on the I-75 in Atlanta (Gray).» 

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