List of highways numbered 8

The following highways are numbered 8. For roads numbered A8, see list of A8 roads. For roads numbered N8, see list of N8 roads.

Route 8, or Highway 8, may refer to:

International

Asian Highway 8

European route E08

European route E008

Austria

Innkreis Autobahn

Burma

Canada

New Brunswick Route 8

Nova Scotia Trunk 8

Ontario Highway 8

Czech Republic

D8 Motorway

R8 Expressway (Czech: Prosecká radiála)

I/8 Highway (Czech: Silnice I/8)

Greece

Greek National Road 8

Hong Kong

Route 8 (Hong Kong)

India

National Highway 8 (India)

Iraq

Japan

Japan National Route 8

Laos

Lao National Route 8

Malaysia

Gua Musang Highway

Mexico

Montenegro

New Zealand

New Zealand State Highway 8

Paraguay

National Route 8

Swaziland

United States

Highway 8 (Iraq)

Highway 8 is an Iraqi highway which extends from Baghdad, through Al Hillah, Al-Qādisiyyah, As Samawah, Nasiriyah, Basrah, to the Kuwait frontier.

Ontario Highway 8

King's Highway 8, commonly referred to as Highway 8, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. At a length of 159.7 kilometres (99.2 mi), the route is significantly shorter than when it travelled beyond Hamilton to Niagara Falls. However, the Queen Elizabeth Way replaced the role of Highway 8, and it was subsequently transferred from provincial to local jurisdiction. Today the highway connects Hamilton and Cambridge, thereafter continuing through Western Ontario to the community of Goderich on the shores of Lake Huron.

History

Provincial highway

Until 1918, the majority of the primary roads through southern Ontario formed part of the County Road System. The Department of Public Works and Highways paid up to 60% of the construction and maintenance costs for these roads, while the counties were responsible for the remaining 40%. In 1919, the federal government passed the Canada Highways Act, which provided $20,000,000 to provinces under the condition that they establish an official highway network; up to 40% of construction costs would be subsidized. The first network plan was approved on February 26, 1920, and included the Queenston Road. The majority of what would soon become Highway 8 was assumed by the department over the course of the year. However, it would not receive a route number until the summer of 1925.