Ontario Highway 407 - Burlington to Markham - Toronto Freeways - 2019/03/16

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  • @EuropeanRoads
    @EuropeanRoads 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I noticed most of the toll road is concrete. In Europe almost all toll roads are asphalt because they are cheaper / easier to maintain. Overhauls don't require long-term capacity reductions if you plan it right. For example in France most toll roads are resurfaced overnight.

    • @AsphaltPlanet1
      @AsphaltPlanet1  5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      when the 407 was first built, it wasn't a private highway. It was tolled, but the tolls started at only ten cents per kilometer. Tolls for transport trucks are 3x the rate of passenger cars. So if its 55 cents per kilometer (or whatever it is), it's $1.65 per kilometer for transport trucks. Crazy expensive. Most GTA freeways started out, or at least have a road base made out of concrete. At some-point, the 407 will be overlain with asphalt I would expect.

  • @andrewtyleryoung
    @andrewtyleryoung 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    No need to apologize for starting the 407 video on the 403. My Dad's family is from Hamilton and I went to Mac, I have very fond memories of that stretch of the 403. Thanks for sharing.

  • @MrSniperFromMars
    @MrSniperFromMars 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The descent into Hamilton on the 403 is awesome.
    $50 toll, no wonder the 401 is so heavily used. What an absolute scam. I paid a $6 toll last week for a 224 km trip in Oklahoma, where the speed limit was 75 mph-120 km/h.

    • @AsphaltPlanet1
      @AsphaltPlanet1  5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      don't ever elect a government that promises to privatize a highway.

    • @bouteilledeau1463
      @bouteilledeau1463 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @HerooftheNexus 1992 I don't think he'd really believe you with his experience with the scamway.

    • @itz_ult
      @itz_ult 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Idk why the like scam people or something and what does Q.E.W mean

    • @CrystalClearWith8BE
      @CrystalClearWith8BE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@itz_ult, QEW stands for Queen Elizabeth Way. You know, the highway built in the '30s and was upgraded into a controlled access highway after the development of the 400-series highways. That highway encircles west and south of Lake Ontario from the GTA to Niagara Falls and all the way to Buffalo NY in the US.

    • @itz_ult
      @itz_ult 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CrystalClearWith8BE thanks homi

  • @kennethsimmons2003
    @kennethsimmons2003 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In Colorado we have E-470 which is one of the most expensive toll roads in the US. The toll is roughly US 30¢ per mile (CA 40¢ per mile / US 19¢ per kilometer / CA 25¢ per kilometer) for people with an ExpressToll transponder which is available without any rental cost, just the cost of the toll. License Plate Toll costs roughly US 48¢ per mile (CA 63¢ per mile / US 30¢ per kilometer / CA 40¢ per kilometer).

    • @AsphaltPlanet1
      @AsphaltPlanet1  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      just think, when the 407 opened in 1997, the tolls were only 10 cents per kilometre. I deliberately avoided E-470 when I visited Denver a few years ago because I was worried about the tolling situation.
      thanks for watching!

    • @kennethsimmons2003
      @kennethsimmons2003 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think the E-470 Public Highway Authority has their stuff together. I've never had any problems with using ExpressToll facilities.

    • @alexishoude4449
      @alexishoude4449 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AsphaltPlanet1 Making some videos in Denver would definitely be a good idea

  • @JruGordon
    @JruGordon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    6:32 the original plan was for the 403 to follow the 407's current alignment from the QEW/403/407 interchange in Burlington, and continue eastward along the current 403 alignment east of 9th line to the 401. The 407 was intended to branch off the QEW around the Ford Plant in Oakville (following the current 403 alignment in that area), and then continue north as the 407 on its current alignment past the interchange around 9th line. It was always planned to be numbered 407, but was originally intended to be a freeway, not a tollway

    • @AsphaltPlanet1
      @AsphaltPlanet1  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don’t think that’s true. I have seen old interchange configurations on maps and the north-south portion of the 407 doesn’t appear to be a through route with the east-west section. More likely, even back then the north-south portion of GTA West had already been conceptualized as a continuation of the north-south Highway.

  • @SlowedByCinnamxn
    @SlowedByCinnamxn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Just Like Houston, they did a Good Job Building these Interchanges and Building the Wide Highway itself.

  • @Pyeknu
    @Pyeknu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Whoa! $50 from Burlington to Markam?! Unbelievable!

    • @AsphaltPlanet1
      @AsphaltPlanet1  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      it's crazy...

    • @patrick97764
      @patrick97764 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      the 407 being tolled as heavily as it is really negates the reason they built it in the first place as the tolls on the 407 are some of the most expensive in north america.
      If it must be a toll fine just make the tolls more affordable and you would actually see more people use it instead of the 401

    • @trulylondon1
      @trulylondon1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@patrick97764 Damn no wonder why the 401 is the most used freeway in North America. I can say, 407 is supposed to help you to get around the city but still it needs to drop down to at least $20 goddamn it.

  • @CrystalClearWith8BE
    @CrystalClearWith8BE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    407 is a tolled highway forming a partial loop around the GTA and extends towards Clarington. The entire route is an alternate route of 401. How much money can you save for 407 for some times and even during rush hours?

    • @AsphaltPlanet1
      @AsphaltPlanet1  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for the comment

    • @CrystalClearWith8BE
      @CrystalClearWith8BE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Forgot to mention, it's also alternate route of Highway 7.

  • @iamsam10001
    @iamsam10001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    More like Hamilton to Markham. But still a nice video!

    •  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes sir haha!

    • @user-kv1up9fu5s
      @user-kv1up9fu5s ปีที่แล้ว

      Brampton is on the way. Congrats to 410

  • @thevultrantransituniverse1487
    @thevultrantransituniverse1487 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Yay! Another Ontario video!

  • @csscott9803
    @csscott9803 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Which 400 series freeway have the most easy access to shopping malls and restaurants?

  • @billelmenesraoui8083
    @billelmenesraoui8083 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you man it's nice video📹🙌👌

  • @trulylondon1
    @trulylondon1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    407 is not bad except for its prices.... BUT I have never seen the sky this beautiful.

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      @reybenedict5898 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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      @dariuskasen9229 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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      @dariuskasen9229 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @reybenedict5898
      @reybenedict5898 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @EuropeanRoads
    @EuropeanRoads 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Truck drivers seem to avoid the 407. There are almost no semis compared to the 401.

  • @jaishima5826
    @jaishima5826 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful roads and amazing climate

  • @TransCanadaPhil
    @TransCanadaPhil 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yeah this one is really good! What a soundtrack, 🤟😍

  • @kaihinz1194
    @kaihinz1194 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    50 bucks?! And for me as a tourist add 4.20$ camera charge and 14$ service charge that Hertz puts on top of it... Nuts!

  • @zainerreyyan105
    @zainerreyyan105 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hwy 407 should have been 110 km/h pilot too, because many drivers goes like 120 to 130 km/h

  • @CrystalClearWith8BE
    @CrystalClearWith8BE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    North of Toronto, no wonder the 407 is wide. Some have to take the 407 and deal with their money to pay to drive the 407. The tolls of the 407 are the most expensive in all of North America, right?

    • @AsphaltPlanet1
      @AsphaltPlanet1  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't know if the 407 is the most expensive or not. It might be for an urban road (though some of the peak hour tolls on say, I-66 in Washington are pretty steep. And the PA Turnpike is pretty steep as well.

    • @CrystalClearWith8BE
      @CrystalClearWith8BE 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I would have said the 407 is Canada's most expensive toll and that requires a transponder. CA$50.00 is most likely the cost of driving the 407, but that's not only the case.

  • @felipeulate4965
    @felipeulate4965 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    where do you pay the 50 dollars?

    • @SlowedByCinnamxn
      @SlowedByCinnamxn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You just get a Transponder, and Create a Highway 407 ETR Account *Before* Driving on the Highway. That’s all I know. LOL I Never even used this Highway before. I can’t even Drive yet too, and I’m Actually from the United States!

    • @felipeulate4965
      @felipeulate4965 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SlowedByCinnamxn lol where I live we don't even have that kind of technology and we actually have to pay to a real person toll to use the highway.

    • @joshuahamilton380
      @joshuahamilton380 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SlowedByCinnamxn If you don't buy a transponder, the cameras at the entrances and exits take a picture of your licence plate and send you a bill in the mail. Your bill includes the tolls plus the camera charges ($4.20 CAD per trip), the monthly account fee ($3.95 CAD per month, even if you don't have an account), and an extra $1.00 CAD per trip for some reason. If you have a transponder (which, now in 2023, costs $24.50 CAD per year or $3.95 CAD per month), It's the same thing, minus the camera charges.
      It's unnecessarily complicated.

    • @user-kv1up9fu5s
      @user-kv1up9fu5s ปีที่แล้ว

      @@felipeulate4965Florida has sunpass like the 407 in Ontario on Florida area highways in Orlando especially when I drove down there

    • @pingpong3311
      @pingpong3311 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@SlowedByCinnamxnIf you don't have a transponder, their overhead cameras read your license plates to figure out who to bill. You have to pay an extra fee though.
      If you don't have an account, you have to go to the 407 website and put your license plate, province/state, and banking info.
      Also, they charge another fee for non-Ontario plates.

  • @brianxyz
    @brianxyz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    $50 toll?

    • @tomsmith5584
      @tomsmith5584 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's US$37.75 (still 😲, though).

    • @EpicThe112
      @EpicThe112 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      $38.14 current exchange rate cheaper than this are $13.75 NJ Turnpike and $22.75 NY Thruway I-87 & I-90.

    • @user-kv1up9fu5s
      @user-kv1up9fu5s ปีที่แล้ว

      @@EpicThe112Sorry to say but New Jersey highways are terrible and always busy. Southern Ontario has amazing highways around the GTA

    • @jasonampaabeng9870
      @jasonampaabeng9870 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@user-kv1up9fu5s Then you have not seen the 401

  • @hickorysocks2628
    @hickorysocks2628 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s so expensive to drive on. How much time does it even save someone?

    • @AsphaltPlanet1
      @AsphaltPlanet1  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Depending on the time of day, a lot. A person could probably save an hour of time on the 407 compared to the 401 during a busy friday during the summer.

    • @hickorysocks2628
      @hickorysocks2628 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AsphaltPlanet1 thank you!

  • @KenBreadbox
    @KenBreadbox 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video, pity it cost a thousand bucks in tolls.

  • @DJDylly
    @DJDylly 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    what the first song of this video

  • @RaminderSingh-s4f
    @RaminderSingh-s4f ปีที่แล้ว

    Quebec registered vehicles get toll in ontario 407??

    • @pingpong3311
      @pingpong3311 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes.

    • @RaminderSingh-s4f
      @RaminderSingh-s4f 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pingpong3311 but i use 407 on daily basis from 4 months with quebec plate but yet didn’t got any charges !

    • @pingpong3311
      @pingpong3311 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@RaminderSingh-s4f Then you're lucky.
      I have heard of this happening though.

  • @alexishoude4449
    @alexishoude4449 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fun fact: this video has been recorded at the same day when I finished 6th grade

    • @pingpong3311
      @pingpong3311 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same here!

  • @raquellegaspi8700
    @raquellegaspi8700 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Almost the whole 407 highway is made up of concrete until the concrete lanes end at Markham road.

    • @AsphaltPlanet1
      @AsphaltPlanet1  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      the original sections of the 407 built for the Ontario Transportation Crown Corporation were surfaced in concrete. The asphalt sections (both east and west) were built by the current operators.

  • @thebionicpig
    @thebionicpig 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lovely!! 👍

  • @csscott9803
    @csscott9803 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Guelph is neve Campbell's hometown

  • @TRXLLGE
    @TRXLLGE 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I see you came from the falls, nice vid tho.

  • @jadrankabekcic9503
    @jadrankabekcic9503 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hwy 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 409 410 And 427 they're all different kinds of highways even pomsies

    • @jadrankabekcic9503
      @jadrankabekcic9503 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you see a pomsies not better at all DC all kinds of highways

    • @CrystalClearWith8BE
      @CrystalClearWith8BE 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You forgot to mention QEW, 412, 416, 417 and the late 418 as part of the 400-series highways of Ontario. However, 4 routes of the 400-series highways in my opinion are main routes: 400, 401, 417 and QEW.

  • @ballofwax9yards
    @ballofwax9yards 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice video

  • @user-kv1up9fu5s
    @user-kv1up9fu5s ปีที่แล้ว

    Ontario freeways are better than some US interstates

  • @xz1891
    @xz1891 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I know the beginning is 403, bcz I always got ears popped there

    • @user-kv1up9fu5s
      @user-kv1up9fu5s ปีที่แล้ว

      407 is an asphalt highway. Sounds like driving on an airplane runway on at Pearson airport

    • @xz1891
      @xz1891 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@user-kv1up9fu5s I was talking about the altitude chg

  • @csscott9803
    @csscott9803 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hamilton is the hometown of 90210 star Kathleen Robertson

  • @jadrankabekcic9503
    @jadrankabekcic9503 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The 400 And 401 And 402 And 403 And 404 And 405 And 406 And 407 And 408 And 409 And 410

  • @ON07theDAWE
    @ON07theDAWE 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    sounds like you have alot of money

    • @AsphaltPlanet1
      @AsphaltPlanet1  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      sounds like it. i wish it were true.

  • @joshuabrown5123
    @joshuabrown5123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for another great video. With that said, that is one boring drive, with little to no great scenery to keep the drive interesting.

    • @AsphaltPlanet1
      @AsphaltPlanet1  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What? You don’t like hydro towers!? :)

  • @SlowedByCinnamxn
    @SlowedByCinnamxn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey Asphalt Planet, do you have Instagram? I Will Follow you

    • @AsphaltPlanet1
      @AsphaltPlanet1  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't have an instagram account. sorry.

    • @SlowedByCinnamxn
      @SlowedByCinnamxn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AsphaltPlanet1 It’s all Good

  • @michaelgray3002
    @michaelgray3002 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow why would anyone take this Motorway having to pay that kind of Money. Just a way the Ontario Provinical government makes money and a huge profit as well. What a rip off

    • @AsphaltPlanet1
      @AsphaltPlanet1  5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      i wish it were a way for the provincial government to make money. The 407 is leased to a private entity -- so it's a way for a private company to make money.

    • @autobahnwaybab7608
      @autobahnwaybab7608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But then look at the amount of vehicles! Its insane!
      You expect hardly cars to drive but completely the opposite!!

  • @jadrankabekcic9503
    @jadrankabekcic9503 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lunch today ETR just Giant Food the page end is not died

  • @singing4fun
    @singing4fun หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a rip off this thing is. I avoid it like the plaque. Everybody should boycott it.

  • @angeliscool2095
    @angeliscool2095 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi I’m going to New Orleans this summer

  • @RossMunro-mf6ez
    @RossMunro-mf6ez หลายเดือนก่อน

    This looks like a Doug Ford and Associates video…increasing the speed limit on the 400 series highways…more carnage on our roads.

    • @AsphaltPlanet1
      @AsphaltPlanet1  หลายเดือนก่อน

      This video was filmed five years ago, and if you watch the entire video, I'm far from the fastest vehicle on the highway.
      What could this video possibly have to do with raising speed limits?

  • @gledatelj1979
    @gledatelj1979 ปีที่แล้ว

    How do trucks justify taking a toll on this hwy?