Connecting Link
Highway Location Local street name ( s ) Length
Highway 3 Windsor Huron Church Road 6.35 km ( 3.95 mi )
Highway 3 Aylmer Talbot Street 2.25 km ( 1.40 mi )
Highway 3 Delhi King Street James Street 2.10 km ( 1.30 mi )
Highway 3 Simcoe Queensway West Queensway East 4.00 km ( 2.49 mi )
Highway 3 Jarvis Talbot Street 1.65 km ( 1.03 mi )
Highway 3 Cayuga Talbot Road 1.25 km ( 0.78 mi )
Highway 3 Dunnville Broad Street George Street Main Street 4.65 km ( 2.89 mi )
Highway 4 Lucan Biddulph Main Street 2.00 km ( 1.24 mi )
Highway 4 Exeter Main Street 3.15 km ( 1.96 mi )
Highway 4 Clinton Victoria Street 1.30 km ( 0.81 mi )
Highway 6 Jarvis Main Street 2.30 km ( 1.43 mi )
Highway 6 Hagersville Main Street 1.60 km ( 0.99 mi )
Highway 6 Guelph Woolwich Street Woodlawn Road 2.55 km ( 1.58 mi )
Highway 6 Fergus St. David Street Tower Street Bridge Street 3.00 km ( 1.86 mi )
Highway 6 Arthur 1.90 km ( 1.18 mi )
Highway 6 Mount Forest 2.65 km ( 1.65 mi )
Highway 6 Durham Garafraxa Street 2.25 km ( 1.40 mi )
Highway 6 Chatsworth Garafraxa Street 0.55 km ( 0.34 mi )
Highway 6 Owen Sound 9th Avenue East 10th Avenue West 3.85 km ( 2.39 mi )
Highway 6 Wiarton Berford Street 2.00 km ( 1.24 mi )
Current links
The Connecting Link program is a provincial subsidy provided to municipalities to assist with road construction, maintenance and repairs in the Canadian province of Ontario. Roads which are designated as connecting links form the portions of provincial highways through built-up communities which are not owned by the Ministry of Transportation (MTO). Connecting links are governed by several regulations, including section 144, subsection 31.1 of the Highway Traffic Act and section 21 of the Public Transportation and Highway Improvement Act. While the road is under local control and can be modified to their needs, extensions and traffic signals require the approval of the MTO to be constructed. The Connecting Link program was established in 1927. Today, of roadway in 77 municipalities are maintained under the program. These links cross 70 bridges also maintained under the program. In return for that particular road being downloaded, the town or county receives money and assistance in maintaining it, and is able to still sign and list it as a provincial highway, though not all connecting links are signed as provincial highways. Some connecting links, however, were never provincial highways at all, but rather county or regional roads, or even local streets that the town or city has assistance in maintaining. During the large-scale downloading of many provincial highways in 1997, many connecting links were repealed when their parent highways were decommissioned. However, in some cases, where a highway terminated in a city, only the connecting links through the urbanized areas were repealed, while the rest of the highway remained under provincial jurisdiction. An example of this was Highway 10 through Mississauga and Brampton.