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The Sporting Life 10K is an annual 10K running/walking event on Yonge Street in Toronto, that has taken place every May since 2003. [13] Money raised from the Sporting Life 10K goes towards funding Campfire Circle (formerly Camp Ooch & Camp Trillium)– a volunteer-run summer camp to provide enriching experiences to victims of childhood cancer ...
North York City Centre is a central business district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the administrative district of North York.It is located along Yonge Street, between just south of Sheppard Avenue northward to Finch Avenue with its focus around Mel Lastman Square, a civic square, and spreads eastwards and westwards a few blocks, generally as far as Doris Avenue and Beecroft Road.
Yonge Street was formerly a part of Highway 11, which led to claims that Yonge Street was the longest street in the world. [33] Running (mostly) concurrent with Yonge as far north as Barrie, then continuing beyond through central and northern Ontario to the Ontario– Minnesota border at Rainy River , the highway was over 1,896 kilometres ...
The station is located under Yonge Street, where it is intersected by Park Home Avenue and Empress Avenue. The station, the system's first and only infill station , opened in 1987 to serve North York City Centre , a high density business district in the Willowdale neighbourhood.
The North York City Centre area, which runs south from Finch's intersection with Yonge Street, has many condominium and office high-rises. Most of Finch Avenue west of Morningside Avenue is a four- to six-lane principal arterial, with a speed limit of 50 km/h (31–40 mph) in most sections.
In its early years, the neighbourhood's transportation was served predominantly by the northern section of the Toronto Transportation Commission's Yonge streetcar line. When the Yonge subway opened to Eglinton in 1954, the TTC replaced this service with trolley buses on Yonge Street and Mount Pleasant Road, both terminating at the Eglinton ...
The Esplanade now begins as a two-lane street at Yonge Street, south of Front Street, north of the railway viaduct. To the north is the Meridian Hall with the "L Tower" condominium tower wedged in behind. Going east, both sides of the street are lined with late 20th-century or early 21st century mid-rise and high-rise condominium projects.
Construction of the Yonge Street portion of the network began in 2014. [1] The Rapidway is primarily used by the Viva Blue service. The Yonge Street Rapidway is central to the Vivanext transport masterplan and will eventually extend from the Richmond Hill/Langstaff Urban Growth Centre at Highway 7 to Green Lane in East Gwillimbury. [2]