List of numbered roads in Greater Sudbury

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Municipal road signage in Greater Sudbury. The sign style shown on the left was posted on regional roads prior to the city's amalgamation in 2001, while the sign style on the right was posted after amalgamation. Greater Sudbury RRSigns.jpg
Municipal road signage in Greater Sudbury. The sign style shown on the left was posted on regional roads prior to the city's amalgamation in 2001, while the sign style on the right was posted after amalgamation.

This article lists all of the numbered municipal roads in Greater Sudbury, Ontario . Municipal roads in Greater Sudbury are generally numbered with odd numbers for east-west routes and even numbers for north-south routes.

The city of Greater Sudbury is the only census division in Northern Ontario that maintains a system of numbered municipal roads. County or municipal road systems otherwise exist only in Southern Ontario; in the rest of the Northern region, provincially maintained secondary highways serve a similar function. Several of the city's municipal roads were also numbered as secondary highways prior to the creation of the current municipal road system in 1973.

Prior to the amalgamation of the current city of Greater Sudbury, the numbered road system was maintained by the Regional Municipality of Sudbury, and the roads were designated as regional, rather than municipal, roads.

NumberNamesWestern/Southern TerminusEastern/Northern TerminusMajor CommunitiesComments
Bay StreetMR 4MR 55 Whitefish Crosses over but does not interchange with Highway 17, just east of the Highway 17/MR 55 intersection.
Fairbank Lake Road Highway 17 Intersection of Wickie Road and Park Road Worthington Travels through the ghost town of Victoria Mines; formerly Highway 658.
Spanish River Roadmunicipal boundary with township of Nairn and Hyman MR 4 in Worthington Turbine An alternate route to MR 55 and Highway 17, also links MR 4 and MR 3 to Highway 17. At the western city limits, the roadway continues as McIntyre Street in Nairn Centre.
Nickel Street, Third Avenue, Mine Road Highway 144 Mine Road Onaping, Levack Main road into Onaping and Levack. Formerly Highway 544 and Highway 544A. [1] [2]
Panache Lake RoadPanache North Shore RoadMR 55 Whitefish Formerly Highway 549
Gordon Lake RoadMR 13 Highway 144 Larchwood Gordon Lake Road (MR 12) ends at Vermilion Lake Road (MR 13) near the Vermilion River bridge and continues south as a private road known as the Lockerby Mine Access Road to MR 3 near Whitefish. [3]
Vermilion Lake Road, Joseph StreetMina StreetHighway 144 Larchwood, Hull Listed as Ontario's Worst Road in October 2007. [4]
Errington Avenue, Main StreetHighway 144MR 15 Chelmsford
Municipal Road 15, Main StreetIntersection of Highway 144 and MR 35MR 80 Chelmsford, Boninville, Blezard Valley, Val Caron Formerly Highway 634
Montée Rouleau, Gagnon StreetMR 35MR 15 Azilda
Notre-Dame StreetMR 35MR 35 Azilda Travels through the community of Azilda
Municipal Road 24, Main StreetMR 55 Highway 144 Lively Passes by the ghost town of Creighton Mine; formerly Highway 536.
Power Street, Godfrey DriveMR 55MR 32 Copper Cliff The route formerly followed Clarabelle Mine Rd., which is owned and maintained by Vale Inco. The road was closed to the public in the spring of 2007. [5]
Balsam StreetMR 55MR 30 Copper Cliff
Big Nickel Mine RoadInterchange with MR 55MR 35 Gatchell/Little Britain Big Nickel is located on this road; effectively a two-lane freeway as it has no intersections except its termini and the entrance to Dynamic Earth. Listed on new eastbound signage on MR 55 as Big Nickel Road, it was previously known as LaSalle Boulevard in the late 70s and well into the 1980s. On May 7, 2004 the Big Nickel Mine Rd. bridge collapsed on a roadway below known as Lorne Street during the reconstruction of the bridge. No one was hurt in the incident.
Elm StreetMR 55Intersection of Highway 144 and MR 15 Chelmsford, Azilda, Downtown Former routing of Highway 144, until opening of the city's Northwest Bypass in 1986. Historic Murray Mine site located on this road. A section of Municipal Road 35 between the eastern intersection of Notre-Dame Street (Municipal Road 21) in Azilda to Highway 144 in Chelmsford is currently a two-lane highway. There are plans to widen that section of highway, although no date has been announced. [6] Construction to widen Municipal Rd. 35 is set to begin in the fall of 2018. [7]
Kelly Lake RoadSouthview DriveMR 55Robinson
Regent Street, Beatty StreetIntersection with MR 55 and MR 46Intersection with MR 42 and MR 58Little BritainBasically an extension of MR 46 and MR 58
Ramsey Lake RoadMR 80Kirkwood Drivesouth shore of Ramsey Lake Science North is located near this road's western terminus at MR 80, while Laurentian University is located near the eastern terminus.
Martindale RoadIntersection of MR 40, MR 46 and MR 47MR 55RobinsonBasically an extension of MR 47
Frood Road, Elm StreetMR 71MR 67 Downtown/Donovan/Northern Heights Has a brief concurrency with MR 55; access road to Frood Mine. Briefly was the first original route of Highway 547 from 1956 to 1960.
Ontario Street, McLeod Street, Hyland DriveMR 40MR 46 Gatchell
York StreetMR 46MR 80near downtown
Regent StreetInterchange with Highway 69 (future Highway 400) and Highway 17 Intersection with MR 55 and MR 38 Lo-Ellen/Four Corners/Lockerby Basically an extension of MR 38
Walford RoadIntersection of MR 40 and MR 46MR 80LockerbyBasically an extension of MR 40
Lorne StreetMR 55MR 35DowntownFormer route of MR 55
Larch StreetMR 67MR 49Downtown
Cedar StreetMR 67MR 49Downtown
Old Highway 17, Lorne Street, Douglas Street, Brady Street, Lloyd Street,The KingswayHighway 17, west of Whitefish Highway 17, 3 km west of Coniston Whitefish, Naughton, Lively, Copper Cliff, Gatchell, Downtown, Minnow Lake, Coniston Former alignment of Highway 17. Surrendered this designation in Walden with the construction of freeway alignment in the early 1980s, and in the old city of Sudbury when the Southeast Bypass was constructed in 1995. Is a dual carriageway for part of its length.
Van Horne StreetMR 80MR 67 Downtown
Kathleen StreetIntersection of MR 42 and MR 38MR 80 Donovan/Flour Mill Basically an extension of MR 38
Ste-Anne RoadIntersection of Mackenzie Street and MR 67MR 80 Downtown
College StreetIntersection of 35/55MR 58 Downtown
Barry Downe RoadMR 55MR 73 New Sudbury
Elgin Street, Morris Street, Howey Drive, Bellevue Avenue, Bancroft Drive, Allan Street, Government Road, East Street, Birch StreetIntersection with MR 55 and MR 61Highway 17Downtown, Brodie, Minnow Lake, Adamsdale, Coniston
Auger AvenueMR 86MR 71 New Sudbury
Bancroft DriveMR 67MR 55 Minnow Lake Bancroft Drive continues as MR 67 from Bellevue Avenue to Allan Street in Coniston.
LaSalle BoulevardInterchange with MR 35MR 86 New Sudbury West of Lorraine Avenue, westbound traffic continues at a loop ramp interchange where MR 73, Maley Drive transitions to LaSalle Boulevard while eastbound traffic splits where MR 86 Maley Drive begins near Collège Boréal. Phase 2 construction of Maley Drive will see LaSalle Boulevard as a 4 laned undivided expressway from west of a roundabout at the entrance to Collège Boréal to the interchange with MR 35 Elm Street. Big Nickel Mine Road was previously a western extension of LaSalle Boulevard in the late 70s well into the 1980s.
Second AvenueMR 67Intersection of MR 55 and MR 86 Minnow Lake Continues as MR 86
Maley DriveInterchange with MR 71MR 86 New Sudbury Turns into MR 71 east of Collège Boréal where westbound LaSalle Boulevard traffic enters at an interchange in a loop ramp and eastbound traffic splits where Maley Drive begins. Maley Drive is a 4 lane divided freeway at the LaSalle Boulevard split interchange to a roundabout with MR 66 and continues as a 4 lane divided expressway to a roundabout with Lansing Avenue.
Moonlight Beach RoadMR 67MR 55 Adamsdale
Long Lake Road, Paris Street, Notre-Dame Avenue (Sudbury), Old Highway 69, Notre-Dame Avenue (Hanmer), Côté BoulevardIntersection of Dew Drop Road and Tilton Lake RoadMR 85Four Corners, Downtown, Val Caron, Val Thérèse, Hanmer Route from intersection with MR 46 north to Capreol Road was formerly part of Ontario Highway 69. It was downloaded to the Region in the early 1980s. The Long Lake Road portion (from Four Corners to Dew Drop Road) was once Highway 543.
Capreol Road, Sellwood Avenue, Milnet RoadMR 80Dead-end in the woods at the Greater Sudbury/Sudbury District border Hanmer, Capreol, Sellwood The ghost town of Milnet can easily be reached by turning onto a sideroad and driving for roughly 1 km. Part from Milnet to Sellwood Mine was part of Highway 806, and the rest of the road was part of former Highway 543.
Radar RoadMR 86MR 80 Hanmer
Falconbridge Highway, Skead RoadIntersection of MR 55 and 72 Skead New Sudbury, Garson, Skead Has an old diversion (Old Skead Road). Continues as MR 72. Sudbury Airport is located on this road. Formerly Highway 541.
Elmview DriveMR 80Dominion Drive Hanmer
Longyear DriveMR 86Edison Road Falconbridge Formerly Highway 541A
Garson-Coniston Road Highway 17 MR 86 Garson, Coniston
Second AvenueMR 67Highway 17 Coniston
Desmarais RoadMR 80Intersection with Nelson Lake Road and Frenchman Lake Road Val Thérèse
Capreol Lake RoadMR 84Intersection of 4th Fire Road, 5th Fire Road, and 6th Fire Road, half-way between Capreol and the Wahnapitae 11 Indian Reserve Capreol
Greater Sudbury Road 537 Highway 537 at Finni Road Highway 17 Wahnapitae Formerly part of Highway 537.

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References

  1. ↑ Highway 544 - thekingshighway.ca
  2. ↑ Highway 544A - thekingshighway.ca
  3. ↑ "Google Maps".
  4. ↑ Canadian Automobile Association (2007-10-04). "Ontario's Worst Roads Results". Archived from the original on 2008-01-03. Retrieved 2007-10-06.
  5. ↑ Clarabelle Mill Rd. now closed to public, Northern Life , December 2006.
  6. ↑ "City of Greater Sudbury Municipal Road 35 Widening from Notre Dame Street to Chelmsford". Archived from the original on 2007-11-10. Retrieved 2009-02-07.
  7. ↑ Public Information Sessions for MR35 Improvements
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