Coming off Burlington St. WB (briefly a freeway in eastern Hamilton), this shield points down Kenilworth Ave. although it has no highway designation. Hamilton Road 8 is actually down on Main St., former Highway 8 that once continued to the Niagara Regional as what is now RR 81. Hamilton is just a city, not a region or even a rare county, but it has enough pull to designate its own routes. The shields are the same shape as most regions but blue like the ones Niagara Region used to use. They also have a stylized city logo instead of block lettering, but that may be within the liberties most regions take with their designs.


Although Kenilworth Ave. is about to become the Access up the Hamilton bluff, it ends up passing under instead of over a railroad, King St., and Lawrence Rd., thus having no momentum to get up the mountain. The railroad overpass is well to the north in downtown, but it sets a bad precedent.


Views of western and eastern Hamilton from Mountain Brow Blvd. right next to the top of Kenilworth Access. Hamilton's industrial roots are showing, but at least they're not dying. (Get it? Roots showing? Dy(e)ing? Sorry.)


A closeup of the QEW crossing the Burlington Bay Skyway, and behind it the original Burlington Lift Bridge on Beach Blvd. Looking farther back, I can barely see the Toronto skyline across Lake Ontario, including the CN Tower just to the right of center towering shadowily.

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