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King's Highway 2, commonly referred to as Highway 2, is the lowest-numbered provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario (there is no numbered Ontario Highway 1) and was originally part of a series of identically numbered highways in multiple provinces which together joined Windsor, Ontario to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Once the primary east–west route across the southern portion of Ontario, most of Highway 2 in Ontario was bypassed by Ontario Highway 401, completed in 1968. The August 1997 completion of Highway 403 bypassed one final section through Brantford. Most of the length of Highway 2 was deemed a local route and removed from the provincial highway system on January 1, 1998, with the exception of a section east of Gananoque. The entire route remains driveable, but as ''County Road 2'' or ''County Highway 2'' in most regions. == Route description == Highway 2 is currently a stub of its former self. At just over in length, it is one of the shortest provincial highways in Ontario. Its nominal purpose is to provide a provincial route between westbound Thousand Islands Parkway and eastbound Highway 401. Highway 2 begins at the eastern town limits of Gananoque, and travels east a short distance before gently curving northward. It interchanges with the Thousand Islands Parkway, once referred to as "Highway 2S" prior to becoming a temporary part of the 401 in 1952, and ends at the westbound 401 offramp (interchange 648). The roadway continues as County Road 2 along the former provincial route to Quebec. Numerous connecting links existed along urban sections of the former route of Highway 2. These sections were downloaded to the municipalities in which they reside before 1998. As such, when the Ministry of Transportation shortened Highway 2 on January 1, 1998, many signs along these connecting routes were not removed except in places where 2 was renumbered as a county road. These signs are still posted in places such as Windsor, London, and Toronto. In parts of Toronto, markers direct drivers along Lake Shore Boulevard west of downtown, and Lake Shore Boulevard, Coxwell Avenue (changed from the old route on Woodbine Avenue), and Kingston Road east of downtown.〔Google Maps Street View, accessed November 2009〕 Before the deletion of Highway 2, most of which took place on January 1, 1998, it was a continuous road from Highway 3 in Windsor to the Quebec border, at one time connecting with the like-numbered Quebec Route 2 (which was renumbered in the early 1970s as multiple provincial highways). It now has the following designations:〔(Former Ontario Highways )〕 *Essex County: E.C. Row Expressway, County Road 22 and part of County Road 42 (the rest was Highway 2 before the E.C. Row was built) *Chatham-Kent: Chatham-Kent Road 2 *Middlesex County: Longwoods Road west of London (Wharncliffe Rd., Stanley St., York St., Florence St.), Dundas Street east of London *Oxford County: County Road 2 except in Woodstock *Brant: Brant Highway 2 except in Brantford (Paris Rd, Brant Rd, Colborne St. E to Wilson St. Hamilton) *Hamilton: Wilson Street, Main Street, Paradise Rd., King Street, Dundurn Street, York Boulevard *Halton Region: Plains Road, King Road, North Shore Boulevard, Lakeshore Road *Peel Region: Southdown Road, Lakeshore Road *Toronto: Lake Shore Boulevard, Gardiner Expressway, Woodbine Avenue and Kingston Road (1950s maps pre-Gardiner Expressway show King Street and Queen Street as parallel alternate routes due to heavy traffic volume) *Durham Region: Kingston Road (Ajax and Pickering), Dundas Street (Whitby), King & Bond Streets (Oshawa), Durham Highway 2 (not to be confused with Durham ''Road'' 2 (Simcoe Street) *Northumberland County: County Road 2 *Hastings County: County Road 2 except in Belleville (where 2 / Dundas Street is concurrent with Ontario Highway 62 or is unnumbered) *Lennox and Addington County: County Road 2 *Frontenac County: Kingston Road 2 (Princess/Queen Street, Ontario Street) (former Frontenac County section is now entirely within Kingston) *Leeds and Grenville United Counties: County Road 2 except the section from Gananoque east to Highway 401 *United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry: County Road 2 except in Cornwall East of the province, the route continued as Quebec Route 2, New Brunswick Route 2 and Nova Scotia Trunk 2 to end in Halifax. Like in Ontario, much of that road has been bypassed by a freeway (with no uniform designation) and/or renumbered. The Quebec portion (following the historic Chemin du Roy and Quebec bridge) was renumbered. New Brunswick assigned the old number to a new freeway which between Fredericton and Moncton differs substantially from the original route.〔(Fredericton-Moncton Highway officially opened / Open for travel Oct. 24 ), press release, Office of the Premier, New Brunswick, October 23, 2001〕 Nova Scotia kept its portion of Highway 2 intact, numbering its bypass as Nova Scotia Highway 102. In 1972, the Ontario and Quebec governments designated Route 2 from Windsor to Rivière-du-Loup as the Heritage Highway (Sur la route des pionniers), a signed route which continued eastward to the Gaspé Peninsula on what is now Quebec Route 132. This tourist route included various side trips, such as highways to Ottawa and Niagara Falls. While this signage is maintained in some counties, much of the route is part of local itineraries such as a former Apple Route (Trenton to Brighton), an Arts Route (in Hastings County) and the Chemin du Roy (now Route 138 between Montreal and Quebec City). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ontario Highway 2」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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