Ontario Highway 649
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Secondary Highway 649, commonly referred to as Highway 649, was a provincially maintained secondary highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. Now known as Kawartha Lakes Road 49, and locally as East Street North in Bobcaygeon, it is a municipally-maintained class-3 roadway (with the exception of a 0.4-kilometre (0.2 mi) class-4 section at the southern end)[3] located mostly along the boundary between the city of Kawartha Lakes and Peterborough County. The 18-kilometre-long (11 mi) route begins in Bobcaygeon at a junction with former Highway 36, and proceeds north along the boundary between Kawartha Lakes and Peterborough County to a junction with former Highway 121 just south of Kinmount.
Route information | ||||
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Maintained by city of Kawartha Lakes | ||||
Length | 18.0 km[1] (11.2 mi) | |||
Existed | 1956 (as Highway 500)–January 1, 1998[2] | |||
Major junctions | ||||
North end | Highway 36 (Main Street) in Bobcaygeon | |||
Major intersections | Road 37 | |||
South end | Highway 121 – Kinmount | |||
Location | ||||
Country | Canada | |||
Province | Ontario | |||
Counties | Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough (road lies on boundary between counties) | |||
Villages | Bobcaygeon | |||
Highway system | ||||
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The route was designated as Highway 500 in 1956. A major renumbering resulted in it becoming Highway 649 in 1964. The route remained generally unchanged until it was decommissioned and transferred to Victoria County at the beginning of 1998; it then became Victoria County Road 49. In 2001, Victoria County was restructured as the City of Kawartha Lakes, but the road retained the same number.