Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
King's Highway 50, commonly referred to as Highway 50, was a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The highway, which was decommissioned in 1998, is still referred to as Highway 50 , though it is now made up of several county and regional roads : Peel Regional Road 50 , York Regional Road 24 and Simcoe County Road ...
Highway 47 – Highway 48 north of Stouffville to Highways 7 & 12 south of Greenbank. Highway 48 – Between Kingston Road and York Regional Road 25. Highway 48B Highway 49 – Between Picton and the Quinte Skyway Bridge. Highway 50 – Toronto section; also referred to as Albion Road to Highway 89 west of Alliston.
Highway 50 runs north from Steeles Ave, where it continues south as Albion Road into Toronto (at the only location where Brampton and Toronto meet), and continues into Caledon as the main artery of Bolton. It is a very busy and mostly six-lane road, and is the easternmost road in Brampton.
In combination with its continuation, Simcoe County Road 42, and in turn a portion of Highway 26 north of Stayner, it is a popular non-highway route (as an alternative to Highway 10 and former Highway 24) from the Greater Toronto Area to the Georgian Triangle, in particular the tourist towns of Wasaga Beach, Collingwood, and The Blue Mountains.
The road has a long history and dates back to 1850s Toronto Nursery that was run by George Leslie. Leslie was one of the first settlers in the area, at the time a community named Leslieville, located two miles east of the-then city limits of Toronto. There were two Leslies mentioned in the city directory of 1869, G. Leslie and Sons of the ...
Dundas Street is also one of the few east-west routes to run uninterrupted through the central and western Greater Toronto Area, from Toronto to Hamilton (the others are Lake Shore Boulevard/Lakeshore Road, Eglinton Avenue, Steeles Avenue/Taunton Road, Queen Street /Highway 7, and Bovaird Drive/Castlemore Road/Rutherford Road/Carrville Road ...
Travels from Toronto Pearson International Airport up through the Caledon Highlands to Highway 9 The Gore Road Peel RR 50/York RR 24 Highway 9 Brampton, Clairville, Sunset Corners, Ebenezer, Wildfield, Caledon, Macville: Named after the former township of Toronto Gore. Spurs off Highway 50 just north of Steeles Avenue and travels up to Highway 9
Sheppard Avenue is an east–west principal arterial road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The street has two distinct branches near its eastern end, with the original route being a collector road leading to Pickering via a turnoff, and the main route following a later-built roadway which runs south to Kingston Road .