400-series highways (British Columbia)

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400-series highways
Highway markers for Highway 401 and Highway 499
System information
Maintained by B.C. Department of Highways
Length	517 km (321 mi)
Formed	1964
Notes	Decommissioned in 1973.
Highway names
Provincial	British Columbia Highway 4XX
System links
British Columbia provincial highways

The 400-series highways were a pair of controlled-access highways located in the southwestern portion of the Canadian province of British Columbia, forming a special subset of the provincial highway system. Modelled after the 400-Series Highways in Ontario, 400-series designations were introduced in 1964 in conjunction with the completion of the Trans-Canada Highway freeway between Vancouver and Clearbrook (present-day Abbotsford);^[1] however, unlike their Ontario counterparts, both routes had signalized sections. The 400-series system never expanded beyond two freeways, and in 1973 Highways 401 and 499 were renumbered 1 and 99 respectively, while the former routes were assigned the 'A' suffix.