Transportation: Navigating
Highways and expresswaysKitchener-Waterloo is best accessed via the 401 expressway that connects Detroit-Windsor and Toronto, which is about 45 minutes to the east. From there, take exit 278 onto Highway 8 north to Kitchener-Waterloo, this highway extends southeast through Cambridge to Hamilton, or exit 295 to Highway 6 noirth to Guelph.Highway 7 goes roughly east-west from Guelph through Kitchener-Waterloo to Stratford (Highway 7, incidentally, is an interesting rural route connecting Sarnia to the west and Ottawa to the east). City streetsWhile most southern Ontario cities whose streets follow a British surveyed grid pattern, Kitchener's streets are laid out in a Continental radial pattern, familiar to the original German settlers. This resulted in small streets in a gird with major streets cutting along diagonals and converging at several multiple-point intersections:
Likewise in Kitchener, roads northwest and southeast of Queen Street are designated "West" and "East", respectively. In Waterloo, roads north and south of Bridgeport Road and Erb Street are designated "north" and south".
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