Eglinton Avenue
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Eglinton Avenue is an east-west thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Toronto portion of the road runs from Kingston Road in the east to the western city limits of Mississauga, west of Highway 427.
The road name originates from the Castle Eglinton in Scotland.
The road west of Yonge is Eglinton Avenue West and east of Yonge is Eglinton Avenue East. When Eglinton passes into Mississauga, it reverts to Eglinton Avenue East until west of Hurontario Street where it becomes Eglinton Avenue West, becoming Lower Baseline Road as it enters Milton just west of Mississauga.
The road runs through a number of neighbourhoods and is for the most part residential, though it becomes a major commercial area around the centre of the city. The area near Oakwood Avenue to Keele Street is home to a number of Caribbean owned stores.
Eglinton Avenue is one of the few east-west routes north of Bloor Street that crosses Toronto uninterrupted in a more or less straight line across the entire city. Eglinton is also one of the few east-west routes that has the distinction of being continuous from Toronto/York Region to Peel Region (the others are Dundas Street, Steeles Avenue, Highway 7, and Castlemore Road/Rutherford Road/Carrville Road/16th Avenue). For example, Lawrence Avenue to its north and St. Clair Avenue to its south are both interrupted by the Don Valley, and neither reaches the western boundary of the city at Etobicoke Creek.
In Toronto, the right-of-way to construct the Richview Expressway remains but the project has never come to fruition, save for high-speed ramps from Eglinton to Highway 401 and Highway 427 at that complicated interchange. A plan to build the Eglinton West subway was abandoned in the late 1990s by the Mike Harris government after the tunnel had been started from Eglinton West station.
[edit] Attractions along Eglinton
- Erin Mills Town Centre
- Eglinton Flats Park
- Eglinton Square
- The Golden Mile
- Yonge Eglinton Centre
- Canada Square
- Eglinton Park
- TVOntario Headquarters
- Sunnybrook Park
- Ontario Science Centre
The Eglinton West (at Allen Road), Eglinton (at Yonge Street), and Kennedy Toronto Transit Commission stations are located on Eglinton.
[edit] See also
| Roads in Toronto, Ontario | ||
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| North-South streets: | Albion • Avenue • Browns • Bathurst • Bay • Bayview • Birchmount • Bridle Path • Brimley • Broadview • De Grassi • Don Mills • Dufferin • Homewood • Islington • Jane • John • Keele • Kennedy • Kipling • Leslie • Markham • McCaul • McCowan • Morningside • Oakwood • Palmerston • Roncesvalles • Spadina • University • Vaughan • Victoria Park • Warden • Weston • Woodbine • Yonge |
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| East-West streets: | Bloor • Carlton • College • Danforth • Dundas • Eglinton • Ellesmere • Finch • Front • Gerrard • King • Kingston • Lake Shore • Lawrence • Parkwoods Village • Pemberton • Queen West • Queen's Quay • Queensway • Sheppard • St.Clair • Steeles • Wilson • York Mills | |
| Expressways and highways: | 2A • 27 • 400 • 401 • 404 • 427 • Allen Road • Black Creek Drive • Don Valley Parkway • Gardiner | |
| Defunct expressways: | Crosstown • Richview • Spadina Expressway • Scarborough Expressway | |
| Roads in Mississauga, Ontario | ||
|---|---|---|
| Arteries (Primary Roads): | Dundas Street • Eglinton Avenue • Hurontario Street • Lakeshore Road |
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| Collectors (Secondary): | Aeroquay Crescent • Bloor Street | |
| Regional Roads: | 1 • 4 • 5 • 7 • 18 | |
| Highways and Expressways: | Highway 401 • Highway 403 • Highway 407 ETR | |
