Greater Sudbury Municipal Road 55

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Greater Sudbury
Municipal Road 55

Old Highway 17
Lorne Street
Douglas Street
Brady Street
Lloyd Street
The Kingsway
Route information
Maintained by Greater Sudbury Municipal Transportation Department
Length40.9 km [1]  (25.4 mi)
Major junctions
West endOntario 17 crown.svg  TCH-blank.svg   Highway 17  / TCH (Southwest Bypass)
East endOntario 17 crown.svg  TCH-blank.svg   Highway 17  / TCH (Southeast Bypass)
Location
Country Canada
Province Ontario
Major cities Greater Sudbury
Highway system
    Greater Sudbury Municipal Roads
    The Kingsway near 3rd Avenue with the Frood Mine in the distance. Kingsway Sudbury.JPG
    The Kingsway near 3rd Avenue with the Frood Mine in the distance.

    Greater Sudbury Municipal Road 55 is a municipal road in the city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Extending from Whitefish to Coniston under a variety of street names, most of the road's length is a former alignment of Highway 17 and the Trans-Canada Highway except for a short realignment on different streets through the city's downtown core.

    Contents

    The road's western terminus is a grade-level intersection with Highway 17 just west of Whitefish, approximately one kilometre east of where the four-lane freeway segment of Highway 17 begins. The intersection is expected to be converted to a full freeway interchange as the freeway is extended westward. Through the Walden area, the road's only official street name is Municipal Road 55, although the informal name Old Highway 17 may also be used. In Waters, just west of Municipal Road 24 into Lively, the road widens into a dual carriageway, and interchanges with Highway 17 just east of Mikkola. This portion of the route was decommissioned as part of the provincial highway system in 1980 with the construction of the freeway segment.

    From the Mikkola interchange easterly, however, the route continued to hold the Highway 17 designation until the completion of the Southeast Bypass in 1995. This portion of the route continues east as an at-grade expressway into Copper Cliff, where the median narrows to a paved strip until reaching the Big Nickel Road interchange. At that interchange, the road narrows back down to a single carriageway, albeit one with multiple lanes of traffic in each direction, and no longer has any access control. The roadway also picks up its first true street name, Lorne Street, at the same interchange. Lorne Street continues to travel in a northeasterly direction into Downtown, where the MR55 designation transfers onto Douglas Street; this represents the route's main divergence from the former route of Highway 17, which continued along Lorne past the Douglas Street intersection.

    MR55 follows Douglas Street a short distance easterly until a sharp bend in the road. The road then becomes Brady Street and continues into the city's downtown core. The street name later transitions to Lloyd Street, reconnecting with the former Highway 17 route, and later to The Kingsway. In 2008, the section of The Kingsway east of Falconbridge Road underwent a $6 million expansion from two lanes to four lanes. [2] [3] The city has also planned a short westerly extension of the Kingsway, which will bypass the primarily residential Lloyd Street by connecting the Kingsway directly to the existing intersection of Lloyd and Brady Streets; however, no time frame for this project has been announced as of 2019.

    The road's eastern terminus is a signalized grade-level intersection with Highway 17 near Coniston. East of that intersection, the current route of Highway 17 is a continuation of the MR55 roadway — traffic using the highway's through route must turn at the intersection.

    Rerouting

    In 2015, MR 55 was rerouted through downtown Sudbury. The former route followed Lorne Street to Elm Street (MR35), and then traveled east along Elm Street to an intersection with MR80. MR55 continued straight through the intersection becoming Lloyd Street. The former route rejoins the current route a short distance later at the intersection with Brady Street.

    Future

    As the freeway alignment of Highway 17 is extended eastward and westward from its existing termini, Municipal Road 55 may also be expanded to incorporate additional segments of the current highway alignment.

    The Ministry of Transportation is currently undertaking planning studies on a further realignment of the Highway 17 route through Nickel Centre toward Markstay. As well, a six-kilometre westerly extension of the existing freeway alignment in the Whitefish area, including a conversion of the existing Municipal Road 55 intersection to a full interchange, is currently in the planning stage. However, actual construction dates have not yet been announced for either project as of 2016.

    Major intersections

    The following table lists the major junctions along Greater Sudbury Municipal Road 55. [1] The entire route is located in Greater Sudbury. 

    Locationkm [1] miDestinationsNotes
      0.00.0Ontario 17 crown.svg  TCH-blank.svg   Highway 17  / TCHSault Ste. Marie Western terminus; follows Old Highway 17; continues as Highway 17 west
    1.60.99RR 10 jct.svg Municipal Road 10 south (Panache Lake Road)Formerly Highway 549 south
    Whitefish 2.41.5RR 3 jct.svg Municipal Road 3 west (Bay Street)No access to Highway 17
    5.63.5Crosses Vermilion River
    Lively 17.110.6RR 24 jct.svg  Municipal Road 24 north (Main Street)Formerly Highway 536 north
    18.711.6Ontario 17 crown.svg  TCH-blank.svg   Highway 17  / TCH (Southwest Bypass)Interchange
    Copper Cliff 24.315.1RR 30 jct.svg Municipal Road 30 north (Power Street)
    25.415.8RR 32 jct.svg Municipal Road 32 north (Balsam Street)
    Gatchell 27.116.8RR 34 jct.svg  Municipal Road 34 north (Big Nickel Road)
    To RR 35 jct.svg  Municipal Road 35 (Elm Street)
    Interchange; to Big Nickel; becomes Lorne Street
    27.317.0RR 37 jct.svg Municipal Road 37 south (Kelly Lake Road)
    South End 29.018.0RR 40 jct.svg Municipal Road 40 south (Martindale Road)To Municipal Road 43 east
    30.018.6RR 46 jct.svg  Municipal Road 46 south (Regent Street)To Highway 69 south
    West End 30.118.7RR 38 jct.svg Municipal Road 38 north (Regent Street)
    Downtown Sudbury 30.418.9RR 49 jct.svg  Municipal Road 49 north (Lorne Street) / Douglas StreetMunicipal Road 55 follows Douglas Street; former Highway 17 follows Lorne Street
    31.319.4RR 67 jct.svg  Municipal Road 67 (Elgin Street)Interchange; no westbound entrance; eastbound exit via Grey Street
    31.719.7RR 80 jct.svg  Municipal Road 80 (Paris Street)Formerly Highway 69 north
    32.119.9RR 51 jct.svg Municipal Road 51 east (Elgin Street) One-way pair
    32.220.0RR 53 jct.svg Municipal Road 53 west (Cedar Street)
    32.320.1RR 35 jct.svg  Municipal Road 35 west (Lloyd Street)To Highway 144 north; Municipal Road 55 follows Lloyd Street and Kingsway; resumes following former Highway 17
    Minnow Lake 34.021.1RR 70 jct.svg Municipal Road 70 south (Bancroft Drive)
    New Sudbury 35.822.2RR 66 jct.svg Municipal Road 66 north (Barry Downe Road)
    36.322.6 Ontario M502.svg RR 86 jct.svg  Municipal Road 86 north (Falconbridge Highway)
    RR 72 jct.svg Municipal Road 72 south (Second Avenue N)
    Formerly Highway 541 north; to Sudbury Airport
    Minnow Lake 39.524.5RR 74 jct.svg Municipal Road 74 south (Moonlight Avenue)
      40.925.4Ontario 17 crown.svg  TCH-blank.svg   Highway 17  / TCH (Southeast Bypass) – North Bay Eastern terminus; continues as Highway 17 east
    1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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