Roads, Highways, and Transportation

[Waterlooer]

Roads, Highways, and Transportation Photos
Interesting Link: www.thekingshighway.ca

Here is where you can post any historical, current, or planned photos of transportation (including roads and highways) for Waterloo Region.

[Razzie]

http://www.thekingshighway.ca/PHOTOS/hwy8-70_lg.jpg
Old Highway 7/8 interchange. Photo taken in 1970. Found at thekingshighway.ca

[DHLawrence]

And it worked great when there were only that many cars on the highway. Not so much when they replaced it!

Look how pristine everything was then.

[Waterlooer]

That interchange wouldn't work today, way to many cars! It's hard to believe that not too long ago highway 8 at Fairway Rd. was only 4 lanes. Now it's 8 lanes and even 10.

[Razzie]

I knew there were more pics on the site but couldn't find them last night. Here they are.

http://www.thekingshighway.ca/PHOTOS/hwy8-91_lg.jpg
Detour on Hwy 8 (King Street) at the site of the future Conestoga Parkway in June 1966

http://www.thekingshighway.ca/PHOTOS/hwy8-92_lg.jpg
Facing west along new four-lane Hwy 8 towards Conestoga Parkway Interchange in June 1966. The new interchange and overpass at Hwy 7 is being constructed in the background. Old Hwy 8 (King Street) can be seen at right.

http://www.thekingshighway.ca/PHOTOS/hwy8-93_lg.jpg
Overpass construction at Hwy 8 and the Conestoga Parkway in June 1966. The piers were only just being poured when this photo was taken

http://www.thekingshighway.ca/PHOTOS/hwy8-94_lg.jpg
Facing west along new four-lane Hwy 8 towards Franklin Street in June 1966. This photo shows the excavation of the future Hwy 8 Underpass at Franklin Street. Note Old Hwy 8 (King Street) at left.

http://www.thekingshighway.ca/PHOTOS/hwy8-95_lg.jpg
Construction of Weber Street Underpass on Conestoga Parkway in June 1966

http://www.thekingshighway.ca/PHOTOS/hwy8-96_lg.jpg
Facing east along Hwy 8 (King Street) towards the site of the future Conestoga Parkway in June 1966

All photos were found on http://www.thekingshighway.ca/, which is a great site for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of Ontario's highways.

[Waterlooer]

Thanks Razzie! These pictures are awesome and that site where you got the pics from is great. It looks like it has information on every section of every highway in Ontario with so many pictures.

[Waterlooer]

I wasn't around in the 60's so I was wondering, before the 4 lane highway 8 was being built in 1966, did King Street (old highway 8) go down where current highway 8 is now? Or did old King go down current highway 8 is now and continue where Weber turns into King? (If that makes any sense).

[Urbanomicon]

Those are great pictures. It gives such a different perspective on the project seeing the roads back and and knowing what they look like now. The Conestoga Parkway, the project that changed the development and growth of K-W more than any other single project in the cities' histories.

[Razzie]

I wasn't around in the 60's so I was wondering, before the 4 lane highway 8 was being built in 1966, did King Street (old highway 8) go down where current highway 8 is now? Or did old King go down current highway 8 is now and continue where Weber turns into King? (If that makes any sense).

That stretch of King used to be Highway 8, and still is once you get to the area between Highway 401 and Mobilife. Based on the pictures, I'm guessing they left a corridor (or created one) to the west of King so they could build the highway. With the highway's current width, King Street along that small stretch has now disappeared completely, and therefore is where Highway 8 is now. I was born in 1983 so I don't know all the details, but I work in a building that used to face King and was demolished so it could face Weber after the highway expansion, and I hear a lot from the workers who have been there for quite some time.

[DHLawrence]

Waterlooer, if you mean the section between Fairway Road and the overpass, I think King must have gone through. The roads line up perfectly with each other--there's even a stub of King Street left over. I expect Weber south of the flyover didn't exist when that part of the highway was built.

[Waterlooer]

Here's some more photos from The King's Highway website: http://www.thekingshighway.ca/PHOTOS/Hwy85photos.htm


Old Conestoga River Bridge on Hwy 85 in St. Jacobs (1953)
(Photograph courtesy of Ontario Ministry of Transportation)

http://www.thekingshighway.ca/PHOTOS-2/hwy85-34_sm.jpg


New Conestoga River Bridge on Hwy 85 in St. Jacobs (1956)
(Photograph courtesy of Ontario Ministry of Transportation)

http://www.thekingshighway.ca/PHOTOS-2/hwy85-35_sm.jpg


Postcard view of Hwy 85 (King Street) in Downtown Kitchener (ca. 1965)

http://www.thekingshighway.ca/PHOTOS-2/hwy85-33_sm.jpg

[Waterlooer]

I got some pictures I found online of the old Trolly bus in K/W. Here's 3 pics but they have way more on the following website: http://www.trolleybuses.net/kit/kit.htm


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