Ontario Highway 24

Highway 24
Route information
Maintained by the Ministry of Transportation
Existed:	1927 – present
Major junctions
	Highway 403 in Brantford
North end:	South limit of Cambridge
Location
Major cities:	Simcoe, Paris, Brantford, Cambridge
Highway system
Ontario provincial highways 400-series • Former Current highways ←  Highway 23   Highway 26  → Former highways     Highway 25  →

Highway 24 is a highway in the Canadian province of Ontario which presently begins at Highway 3 in Simcoe, and ends at Highway 401, in Cambridge. Highway 24 runs in a north/south direction and has been in service since 1927. Before 1997, when many major highways were declassified, Highway 24 began south of Simcoe in Norfolk near Walshingham, and ended in Collingwood, as part of Hurontario Street.

The road has also seen key shifts, as communities have been by-passed over the years, including:

• Waterford, where a new alignment was built towards Scotland and connected with Highway 24A. The former Highway 24 is now Brant Road 24, and Highway 24A is now "Brant Road 24A" (and is Waterloo Regional Road 75).
• Caledon where the highway was realigned through Caledon Village via the former Highway 51 to Highway 10. The former Highway 24 is now Peel Regional Road 24,^[1]
• Alton and Orangeville by Highway 136, now known as Peel Regional Road 136^[2] following an interim period of being known as Peel Regional Road 25^[3],
• and within Cambridge, the Hespeler Bypass (see below).

In Brantford and in Brant County, Highway 24 is interlined with Highway 403 for 9 km (5.6 mi).

Street names

Hespeler Road was constructed as a bypass for Highway 24, only to be transferred to the Region of Waterloo in 1998

Highway 24 has several local street names in the various communities through which it passes.

• Simcoe: Norfolk Street
• Brantford: King George Road
• Cambridge: Hespeler Road, Ainslie Street, and Water Street (Hespeler Bypass removed 24 from Queen Street West and Guelph Avenue in 1993)

The parts of Highway 24 that were decommissioned in 1997 remain part of the various county road systems.

Expansion plans

Highway 24 descends into the Grand River valley south of Cambridge

On September 12, 2006, it was announced that the Ontario provincial government would be undertaking a study to determine what improvements would be necessary to bring the highway up to current standards and to handle future growth.

This study (which will be completed in 2009) will focus on the portion of the highway between Cambridge and Brantford, where connections to Highways 401 and 403 exist, but suffer from extreme congestion during peak periods.

Potential improvements/expansions include:

• improving the road surface, lighting and traffic control devices at selected intersections
• widening the road from two to four lanes near urban centres
• complete expansion to a four-lane highway
• construction of a multi-lane, controlled-access freeway

References

Highway 24 expansion

• Highway 24 Corridor Planning and Class EA Study, accessed December 3, 2006
• Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Highway 24, June 15, 2006, question by MPP Dave Levac (Brant), answered by Minister of Transportation Donna Cansfield, accessed 9 October 2007

External links

• Highway 24 Transportation Corridor Planning