Fulton ceremoniously opened the new freeway connection on September26, 1988, completing the Woodstock to Brantford link. Highway403 was briefly left with three discontinuous sections: Woodstock–Brantford, Ancaster–Burlington, and Oakville–Mississauga. Between Brantford and Ancaster, traffic was defaulted onto Highway2, a four-lane road with numerous private driveways and at-grade intersections. On March24, 1987, Chris Ward, MPP for Wentworth North announced that construction of the missing link between Brantford and Ancaster would begin in 1989. Construction began in mid-1990. It included interchanges at Garden Avenue, Highway52 and Highway2. A continuous construction program was carried out over the next seven years, with the link opening on August15, 1997. Highway2, which was the only parallel route before the completion of Highway403, was subsequently downloaded to regional jurisdiction. Controversy Though some officials considered Highway403 to be a perfect example of a freeway construction process, it was not built without its share of controversy. In addition to the previously mentioned issues that occurred in 1969, portions of the freeway through Mississauga were built alongside established communities, leading to angry homeowners' associations pressuring the province for noise mitigation measures and compensation. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Mississauga section of Highway403 was the site of more than two dozen fatal accidents over a five-year period, one of the highest rates in North America at the time, despite being up to modern road standards. This led Peel Regional Police and the media to nickname it the "Death Highway." In particular, the stretch from Mavis Road to Erin Mills Parkway has been the site of numerous accidents. In this section, Highway403 features a downward slope as motorists head eastbound towards the Mavis Road interchange; drivers complain of having to slam on the brakes when traffic comes to a standstill, leading to rear-end collisions. There is also glare from the sun that causes vision problems throughout the day. Recent construction The Hamilton-Brantford and Mississauga sections of Highway403 were eventually planned to be linked up via an east–west extension that would run parallel to the QEW, as the current north–south routing of Highway403 along the Mississauga-Oakville boundary to end at the QEW was intended to be temporary and eventually assumed by the proposed Highway407. The interchange between Highway403 and Highway407 near Ninth Line was partially completed, allowing Highway403 access to a temporary east–west connector to Trafalgar Road (Halton Regional Road3). However, the Bob Rae government altered these plans in 1995 due