page_title: Ontario Highway 407
section_title: Pickering–Clarington
hierarchical_section_title: Ontario Highway 407 / Route description / Pickering–Clarington
caption_attribution_description: English: Signage in Pickering, ON to indicate the transition point of the 407 tollway from the privately operated section (407 ETR) to the provincially owned section (ON 407 or 407E).
context_page_description: King's Highway 407 is a tolled 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. Comprising a privately leased segment as well as a publicly owned segment, the route spans the entire Greater Toronto Area around the city of Toronto, travelling through the suburbs of Burlington, Oakville, Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Markham, Pickering, Whitby, and Oshawa before ending in Clarington, north of Orono. At 151.4 km long, this is the fourth longest freeway in Ontario's 400 series network, after Highways 417, 400, and 401. The segment between Burlington and Brougham in Pickering is leased to and operated by the 407 ETR Concession Company Limited and is officially known as the 407 Express Toll Route. It begins at the junction of the Queen Elizabeth Way and Highway 403 in Burlington, and travels 108.0 km across the GTA to Brock Road in Pickering. East of Brock Road, the tollway continues east as Highway 407, a toll route operated by the provincial government, for 43.4 km to Highway 35/115 in Clarington. The route interchanges with nine freeways: the QEW, Highway 403, Highway 401, Highway 410, Highway 427, Highway 400, Highway 404, Highway 412, and Highway 418.
context_section_description: Immediately east of Brock Road, drivers enter the provincially-operated portion of the highway which is referred to as Highway 407 (unofficially Highway 407 East). This route runs parallel to Highway 7, Durham Regional Road 3 (with some crossovers), and Durham Regional Road 4 through the North of Pickering, Whitby, Oshawa, and Clarington, until its eastern terminus at Highway 35 and Highway 115.
  Major interchanges of this route include Highway 412 and Highway 418, which are both spurs connecting Highway 407 with Highway 401 in Whitby and Clarington. Both Phase 1 of the 407 East Extension, as far as Harmony Road in Oshawa and Highway 412 opened to traffic on June 20, 2016. Phase 2A of the 407 East Extension, as far as Taunton Road in Clarington opened to traffic on January 2, 2018. Both Phase 2B of the 407 East Extension, as far as Highway 35 and Highway 115 in Clarington and Highway 418 opened to traffic on December 9, 2019.
caption: Sign for the transition between 407 ETR and 407 East, two kilometres west of Brock Road in Pickering.
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