Ontario Highway 26

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Highway 26

Ontario Highway 26
A map of Highway 26
  Highway 26    Connecting Links
Route information
Maintained by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario
Length116.7 km [1]  (72.5 mi)
ExistedJuly 2, 1927 [2] –present
Major junctions
West endOntario 6 crown.svgOntario 10 crown.svgOntario 21 crown.svg  Highway 6  / Highway 10  / Highway 21 in Owen Sound
Major intersections Hurontario Street
East endOntario 400 crown.svg  Highway 400 in Barrie
Location
Country Canada
Province Ontario
Major cities Owen Sound, Barrie
Towns Meaford, Collingwood, Wasaga Beach, Stayner (in Clearview)
Highway system
Ontario 24.svg Highway 24 Ontario 27.svg Highway 27
Former provincial highways
 Ontario 25.svg  Highway 25

King's Highway 26, commonly referred to as Highway 26, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario, connecting the cities of Owen Sound and Barrie. Between these two cities, the highway serves the southern shoreline of Georgian Bay, passing through Meaford, Collingwood and Stayner, as well as passing the Blue Mountain Resort. In addition, the highway serves as the main route to Wasaga Beach, a popular recreational destination during the summer months.

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Highway 26 was first assumed by the Department of Highways, predecessor to the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, in 1927, along an existing trunk route between Barrie and Owen Sound. Various bypasses, mostly around Collingwood, have improved the route through the intervening years.

Route description

Highway 26 facing west towards Owen Sound; the highway dives through several large valleys between here and Meaford. Highway 26 into Owen Sound.png
Highway 26 facing west towards Owen Sound; the highway dives through several large valleys between here and Meaford.

Highway 26 serves as a major link between Barrie and the Greater Toronto Area, via Highway 400, and the popular tourist region on the southern shore of Georgian Bay. [3] Over the past several years the popularity of this region has increased, and traffic levels have increased accordingly. [1] The routing of the highway takes it from the junction with Highway 6, Highway 10 and Highway 21 in Owen Sound to its terminus at Highway 400 in Barrie at the Bayfield street interchange. [4] For a time, the highway continued southward to Dunlop street, formerly Highway 11, in Barrie, cosigned with Highway 27. The southern portion of Bayfield street was downloaded to the City of Barrie along with Dunlop street in 1997, when these sections of Highway 27 and Highway 11 were eliminated. This shortened the highway's length by 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) and removed the 7.2-kilometre (4.5 mi) concurrency with Highway 27. [5] The current length of the highway is 116.7 kilometres (72.5 mi). [1]

Highway 26 between Owen Sound and Meaford in the west is not as highly travelled as the tourist areas to the east. [1] From Meaford eastwards, the highway runs along the Georgian Bay shoreline, and in The Blue Mountains, extending from Thornbury eastwards through to the west limits of Collingwood. It passes through a nearly continuous corridor of low-density resort-style residential developments, mostly concentrated in the Blue Mountain Resort area. Between Collingwood and Wasaga Beach, the highway is a four-lane divided roadway with roundabouts transitioning to the undivided sections at both ends: one at Mosely Street in Wasaga Beach, and the other at Poplar Sideroad in Collingwood. [4]

It is also not a very straight route, as the highway makes four 90 degree turns: three at signalised intersections, including at High Street in western Collingwood, Hume Street in eastern Collingwood, the intersection with Simcoe Roads 91 and 42 in Stayner, and the unsignalised junction with Simcoe Road 27 (formerly Highway 27) north of Barrie. [4]

Several portions of Highway 26 are maintained under a Connecting Link agreement. Within Owen Sound, Meaford, Thornbury, Collingwood, Stayner and Barrie, maintenance of the route is shared between the MTO and the local municipality. [6]

History

The Highway 26 bypass between Collingwood and Wasaga Beach New ON Hwy 26.jpg
The Highway 26 bypass between Collingwood and Wasaga Beach

Highway 26 was first assumed by the Department of Highways on July 2, 1927, [2] along an existing trunk route between Barrie and Owen Sound. [7] It began at a shared terminus with Highway 6 and Highway 10 in downtown Owen Sound, at the present intersection of 2nd Avenue East and 10th Street, and travelled 120.3 kilometres (74.8 mi) to Highway 11 in Barrie, at the intersection of Bayfield Street and Dunlop Street. [8] [9]

When it was established, the route was paved between Meaford and Thornbury, as well as for approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Owen Sound through Woodford; the remainder was gravel-surfaced. [10] [11] The gap between Woodford and Meaford was paved in 1930, [12] followed by the section from the current intersection of Simcoe County Road 53 (Wilson Drive) east to Midhurst and south to Highway 11 in Barrie in 1931. [13] [14] In 1932, the section from the Grey and Simcoe County boundary (at Simcoe County Road 34 / Grey County Road 21) to Stayner was paved. [15] [14] Due to the lack of resource available at the height of the depression, a 3-metre (10 ft)-wide pavement (one lane) was constructed approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) east from Stayner to the present intersection of Simcoe County Road 22 (Horseshoe Valley Road West). [16] The gap between there, through Minesing, to Simcoe County Road 53 was paved with a single lane in 1934. That year also aw the section between Thornbury and the Simcoe–Grey County line paved, completing a continuous pavement between Owen Sound and Barrie. [17] The second lane of pavement between Stayner and west of Midhurst was completed over a decade later, in 1947.[ citation needed ]

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Construction of the bypass at the Mosley Street roundabout in Wasaga Beach in July 2012
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The roundabout in 2017

Since then, the route has remained almost unchanged, except in the Collingwood and Barrie areas. Prior to the completion of the Pretty River Parkway in Collingwood in the mid-1970s, [18] [19] Highway 26 was routed through Collingwood along Hume Street, before making a 90 degree right turn (north) at the intersection with Highway 24 (Now Simcoe Road 124, Hurontario Street) with which it was concurrent until the terminus of Highway 24 at First Street, where Highway 26 makes a 90 degree left turn (west) onto First Street, continuing on the present route. [20] The Pretty River Parkway was a bypass of this highly congested downtown route, branching off to the north from Hume Street and swinging gradually westward along the shoreline until becoming Huron Street, which is the eastward extension of First Street beyond Hurontario. In 2003, Pretty River Parkway was widened to four lanes to match the existing sections of Huron and First Streets.

In 2001, the Georgian Triangle Area Transportation Study determined that traffic levels along Highway 26 both east and west of Collingwood were exceeding capacity. The Simcoe Area Transportation Network Needs Assessment repeated this analysis the following year. [21] Subsequently, work on a new bypass east of Collingwood began on April 11, 2003. [22] The old route was a dangerous section of road with numerous intersecting side streets and private residences with direct highway entrances, while the bypass is a fully-controlled access four-lane divided highway without any at-grade crossings. The new alignment has the highway veer west in the west end of Wasaga Beach, and from a roundabout with Mosley Street it runs parallel to and south of the old route to a roundabout at Poplar Sideroad, near the eastern town limits of Collingwood. The bypass opened on November 14, 2012. [23] The former route is now known as Beachwood Road from Collingwood to Mosley Street in Wasaga Beach. The remaining section of the former alignment south of Mosley Street has been renamed Lyons Court. [24]

Within Barrie, a portion of Highway 26 was transferred to the city in 1998, truncating it at Highway 400. This former portion is now known simply as Bayfield Street. [25]

Major intersections

The following table lists the major junctions along Highway 26, as noted by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario. [1]  

DivisionLocationkm [1] miDestinationsNotes
Grey Owen Sound 0.00.0Ontario 6 crown.svgOntario 10 crown.svgOntario 21 crown.svg  Highway 6  / Highway 10 south / Highway 21 south (9th Avenue E / 10th Street E) – Chatsworth, Shallow Lake, Southampton Beginning of Owen Sound Connecting Link agreement; Highway 26 western terminus
1.71.114th Avenue EEnd of Owen Sound Connecting Link agreement
3.01.9RR 5 jct blue.svg County Road 5 south (28th Avenue E)Owen Sound city limits
Meaford 4.42.7RR 15 jct blue.svg County Road 15 north
5.83.6RR 11 jct blue.svg County Road 11 south
15.49.6RR 18 jct blue.svg County Road 18 south Woodford
22.313.9RR 112 jct blue.svg County Road 112
26.716.6Beginning of Meaford Connecting Link agreement
28.217.5RR 12 jct blue.svg County Road 12 west (Nelson Street)
29.618.4RR 7 jct blue.svg County Road 7 south (St. Vincent Street)
30.018.6End of Meaford Connecting Link agreement
The Blue Mountains 38.924.2RR 113 jct blue.svg County Road 113 east (10th Line)
39.824.7Peel StreetBeginning of Thornbury Connecting Link agreement
40.925.4RR 13 jct blue.svg County Road 13 south (Bruce Street)
42.126.2Grey StreetEnd of Thornbury Connecting Link agreement
42.726.5RR 2 jct blue.svg County Road 2 south
45.328.1RR 40 jct blue.svg County Road 40 west
52.332.5RR 19 jct blue.svg  County Road 19 south Craigleith
GreySimcoe boundary The Blue MountainsCollingwood boundary55.034.2RR 21 jct blue.svgRR 34 jct.svg  County Road 21  / County Road 34 south (Osler Bluff Road / Long Point Road)Beginning of Collingwood Connecting Link agreement
Simcoe Collingwood 62.238.6 Hurontario Street Formerly Highway 24 south; to County Road 124 south
66.541.3RR 32 jct.svg  County Road 32 west (Poplar Sideroad)End of Collingwood Connecting Link agreement; beginning of 4-lane divided highway
Wasaga Beach 72.244.9Mosley Street / Nottawasaga Sideroad 33/34End of 4-lane divided highway; formerly Highway 92 east / County Road 33 west
Clearview 73.845.9RR 64 jct.svg  County Road 64 east
75.647.0RR 96 jct.svg  County Road 96 east (Nottawasaga Sideroad 27/28)
75.747.0Beginning of Stayner Connecting Link agreement
77.448.1RR 91 jct.svg  County Road 91 west (Main Street W)
RR 42 jct.svg  County Road 42 east (King Street S)
Formerly Highway 91 west; to Airport Road
78.248.6Mowat StreetEnd of Stayner Connecting Link agreement
80.049.7RR 7 jct.svg  County Road 7 north
86.753.9RR 10 jct.svg  County Road 10 (Sunnidale Road) Sunnidale Corners
Springwater 99.261.6RR 22 jct.svg  County Road 22 east (Horseshoe Valley Road) – Horseshoe Valley
102.063.4RR 28 jct.svg  County Road 28 south (George Johnson Road) Minesing
107.366.7RR 53 jct.svg  County Road 53 south (Wilson Drive)
Springwater
(Midhurst)
110.868.8RR 27 jct.svg  County Road 27 northFormerly Highway 27 north; former western end of Highway 27 concurrency
111.669.3RR 43 jct.svg  County Road 43 west (Snow Valley Road) / Finlay Mill Road
Barrie 114.271.0Barrie city limits; beginning of Barrie Connecting Link agreement
116.772.5Ontario 400 crown.svg  Highway 400Sudbury, North Bay, Toronto Highway 26 eastern terminus; Highway 400 exit 98; cities not listed on signage
117.973.3Dunlop StreetFormer Highway 26 eastern terminus; [26] formerly Highway 11  / Highway 27 south
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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