Ontario Highway 4

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Highway 4
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A map of Highway 4
  Highway 4   Connecting Links
  Sections downloaded in 1998
Route information
Length: 100.8 km[2] (62.6 mi)
Existed: June 24, 1920[1] – present
Major junctions
South end:  Highway 3 – St. Thomas
   Highway 401
 Highway 402
Highway 7
North end: Highway 8 – Clinton
Location
Major cities: St. Thomas, London
Towns: Exeter, Clinton
Highway system
← Highway 3 Highway 5 x20px →
Former provincial highways
← Highway 3B Highway 4A →

King's Highway 4, also known as Highway 4, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. Originally much longer than its present 100.8 km (62.6 mi) length, more than half of Highway 4 was transferred to the responsibility of local governments in 1998. It travels between Highway 3 in Talbotville Royal, north-west of St. Thomas, and Highway 8 in Clinton, passing through the city of London inbetween.

Highway 4 was first designated in 1920, when a 51-kilometre (32 mi) route between Talbotville Royal and Elginfield was assumed by the Department of Highways. It was extended in the early 1930s both south to Port Stanley as well as north to Flesherton.

Route description

The Highway 4 / Talbot Street junction in St. Thomas

Highway 4 starts at an intersection with Highway 3 in Talbotville Royal and continues north as a two-lane undivided highway. It travels along a short 2.7-kilometre (1.7 mi) concurrency with Highway 401 from the community of Tempo to Wonderland Road. The highway then follows Wonderland Road through London as far as Sunningdale Road West, which it turns east along. It follows Sunningdale Road for a short distance before turning north along Richmond Street.[3][4]

The road continues north, passing through Arva, Birr and large amounts of farmland before intersecting with the western terminus of Highway 7 at Elginfield. The highway then curves slightly west, passing through Lucan before continuing north. It then passes through the communities of Huron Park and Exeter. At Exeter, it crosses the former route of Highway 83. From there, it continues north, passing through the communities of Hensall, Ontario and Vanastra, Ontario before terminating at Highway 8 in the community of Clinton.[3][4]

History

File:Highway 4 north of St. Thomas, June 23, 1948.png
Highway 4 north of St. Thomas in 1948

Highway 4 was originally designated in 1920 when the provincial government assumed the road running from Talbotville Royal (St. Thomas) to the Northern Highway (later Highway 7) at Elginfield, via London. The portions within Elgin County were assumed on August 4, while the portions south of London were assumed on June 24. The portions north of and through London were assumed on August 6.[1] The 51.2-kilometre (31.8 mi) route featured a concurrency with the Provincial Highway (later Highway 2) between Lambeth and downtown London.[5][6]

Until the summer of 1925, Ontario highways were named rather than numbered. When route numbering was introduced, the route between St. Thomas and Elginfield became Provincial Highway 4.[7] 1927 saw several new sections of road assumed that would become portion of Highway 4. On September 14, the route was extended to Highway 8 at Clinton. Further north, a new highway was created on June 22, 1927, between Highway 9 at Walkerton and Highway 6 at Durham. This latter section was designated as Highway 4A.[8]

On March 12, 1930, Highway 4 was extended to Durham, fully absorbing the route of Highway 4A in the process. Two months later, on May 11, it was extended south to Bedford Street (now Edith Cavell Boulevard) in Port Stanley.[9] On April 11, 1934, the highway was extended east to the intersection of Highway 10 in Flesherton.[10] Highway 4 reached its maximum length of 275.6 kilometres (171.2 mi) when it was extended from Flesherton to Highway 24 in Singhampton in the mid-1970s.[11][12][13]

Downloads

Former alignment of Highway 4 looking north towards Lambeth from the Highway 402 interchange in London

As part of a series of budget cuts initiated by premier Mike Harris under his Common Sense Revolution platform in 1995, numerous highways deemed to no longer be of significance to the provincial network were decommissioned and responsibility for the routes transferred to a lower level of government, a process referred to as downloading. Portions of Highway 4 were transferred to the counties of Elgin, Huron, Bruce and Grey on January 1, 1998.[14]

The former portion of Highway 4 south of St. Thomas is now signed as Elgin County Road 4. The former northern portion is broken into several different roads:

In 2017, the City of London announced that Highway 4 through London would be re-signed and re-routed via Richmond Street, Sunningdale Road, and Wonderland Road, resulting in a short concurrency with Highway 401 between the Colonel Talbot Road and Wonderland Road interchanges.[15]

Major intersections

The following table lists the major junctions along Highway 4, as noted by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario.[2] 

Division Location km[2] mi Destinations Notes
Elgin Talbotville Royal 0.0 0.0  Highway 3 – St. Thomas
  6.0 3.7  Highway 401 – Windsor, Toronto Exit 177, ON-4 overlaps with Hwy 401 until Wonderland Rd S.[2]
Middlesex London 8.8 5.5 Wonderland Road South ON-4 exits and continues northbound along Wonderland Rd S.
15.9 9.9  Highway 402 – Sarnia
18.1 11.2 Exeter Road Formerly Highway 135
18.4 11.4 Wharncliffe Road S Former routing of Highway 4 (before Jan. 2018) and Highway 2 along Wharncliffe Rd
29.8 18.5 Fanshawe Park Road W Formerly Highway 22 west
34.0 21.1 Richmond St / Sunningdale Rd Former routing of Highway 4 via Richmond Street south
Arva 31.6 19.6 County Road 28 (Medway Road)
  37.2 23.1 County Road 16 (Ilderton Road)
Elginfield 45.4 28.2 Highway 7 east – St. Marys, Stratford
County Road 7 west (Elginfield Road)		 Access to Highway 23 via Highway 7 east
Clandeboye 54.3 33.7 County Road 28 (Denfield Road)
Mooresville 58.1 36.1 Mooresville Drive
Huron Centralia 64.2 39.9 County Road 21
Exeter 72.4 45.0 County Road 83 (Thames Road) Formerly Highway 83
Hensall 80.3 49.9 County Road 84 (King Street) Formerly Highway 84
Kippen 84.3 52.4 County Road 12 (Kippen Road)
Brucefield 90.4 56.2 County Road 3 (Mill Road)
Clinton 100.8 62.6 Highway 8
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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