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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 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.
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.
Prior to that, Carlton Street met Yonge Street south of the present intersection by several dozen metres. The completed intersection was opened in early June 1931. [31] Carlton Street is home to Maple Leaf Gardens; Toronto Maple Leafs mascot, Carlton the Bear, is named after this street. It extends from Yonge Street east to Parliament Street as ...
Yonge–Eglinton is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, centred around the intersection of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue. It is the central section of Midtown Toronto , one of four central business districts outside Downtown Toronto .
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.
An 1880s survey map of Scarborough showing the original route of Sheppard (halfway up map on right) along Twyn Rivers Drive. Sheppard was a sideroad between lots 15 and 16 York Township [3] In the former Scarborough municipality, Sheppard was once called the Lansing Sideroad. A post office known as "Lansing" occupied the corner of Yonge and ...
The original address, 300 Yonge Street, is still commonly used in TTC system maps. When Toronto's Eaton Centre was built in the 1970s, a pedestrian tunnel was constructed under the tracks outside the fare-paid areas, connecting the two separate concourses.