page_title: Transportation in Markham, Ontario
section_title: Privately controlled
hierarchical_section_title: Transportation in Markham, Ontario / Roads / Privately controlled
caption_attribution_description: Route Map, Highway 407
context_page_description: The city of Markham in Ontario, Canada, offers a complex transportation infrastructure. These include airports, highways, public transit, regional roads, municipality-funded roads, and train services.
context_section_description: In addition, Highway 407 Express Toll Route (407 ETR) is a toll, major east-west expressway, and is privately controlled. The highway serves as an alternate  to Highway 401, Highway 7, and Steeles Avenue, which are very busy roads. Users using Highway 407 must pay a toll.
  How Highway 407 works is that every time the customer uses the route, the camera installed above the on-ramps take record of the transponder, leased by the Highway 407. The transponder holds information of the customer's automobile, and thus will mail the bill to the transponder's holder's residence. In case of the customer has no transponder, the camera takes a photo of the vehicle's licence plate, and a video toll charge will apply. If the customer fails to pay, an interest would be added to the owed amount. The fee would be charged when the customer attempts to renew their driver's licence.
  Highway 407 primarily serves Markham from Yonge Street to York-Durham Line. The highway connects Markham with Clarington to the east, and Burlington to the west.
caption: Highway 407's route across Southern Ontario, click to enlarge.
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