Jane Street
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Jane Street is also called York Regional Road 55, if you meant to search the portion of Keele Street in York Region, Ontario, click here.
Jane Street is a north-south thoroughfare in western Toronto, that begins at Bloor Street and continues north into York Region to near the Holland River in King Township.
The street is most infamously known with the intersection of Jane and Finch where a number of murders and other forms of violence took place in 2005.
In 2006, a large sinkhole closed the intersection of Jane Street and Highway 7 in Vaughan for almost four months.
The TTC operates Jane subway station at Jane and Bloor Street, once the western terminus of the "Jane/Bloor" Streetcar line. However, there are plans to operate two additional subway stations on Jane in Vaughan as part of the extension of the Spadina branch of the Yonge-University-Spadina line.
[edit] Trivia
The title character of the Barenaked Ladies song Jane is "Jane St. Clair", and is named after the intersection of Jane and St. Clair Avenue. Steven Page recalls that co-writer Stephen Duffy saw the intersection on a map and remarked that it sounded like the most beautiful intersection in the world; "I didn't have the heart to tell him it wasn't."
[edit] See also
Major streets in Toronto which intersect with Jane Street (south to north):
