Steeles Avenue

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Steeles Avenue, near its intersection with Warden Avenue.
Steeles Avenue, near its intersection with Warden Avenue.

Steeles Avenue is an east-west thoroughfare that forms the northern city limit of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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  • Official names: Steeles Avenue West ; Steeles Avenue East
  • Length: (within Toronto) 38.75 km
  • 'Transportation: Mainly served by TTC Routes # 53 and # 60. TTC Routes # 51, 165D, 165F, 37D; YRT Routes # 3, 10, 88, 12, 27 also use part of the road.
  • Attractions: Rouge Park, Milliken Park, Pacific Mall, Market Village Mall, Splendid China Tower, Centerpoint Mall, York University, Thackerway Conservation Land
  • Road status: One of the worst roads in Ontario.[1]Two lanes rural thoroughfare east of York Regional Road 69, two lanes and a bicycle lane on each side of the road from Kennedy Road to Markham Road, six lanes urban thoroughfare from Kennedy Road to Victoria Park Avenue, eight lanes from Victoria Park Avenue to Highway 404
  • Zonings: Parklands/rural on the extreme east end of the road, a mix of commercial and residential in the middle, and industrial zonings near the west end of the road.
  • Eastern terminus: Scarborough-Pickering Line
  • Western terminus: Albion Road

The road is served predominantly by Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) routes # 53 (Steeles East) and 60 (Steeles West). Both routes turn "away" from Steeles Avenue upon approaching Yonge Street. There are several routes serving the portions of the road, they are TTC routes # 51 (Leslie), 165D (Keele North), 165F (Keele North), 37D; York Region Transit routes # 3 (York University), 10, 88, 12, 27 (Highway 27)

Steeles is named after J.C. Steele, who owned a tavern on the street, where it intersects with Yonge Street.

From the eastern city limit, Steeles runs along the Toronto's northern border with York Region and west to Albion Road.

West of Albion Road, Steeles continues into Peel Region where it is also known as Peel Regional Road 15. It runs through Brampton and into the Halton Region town of Milton. After breaking at Appleby Line atop the Niagara Escarpment (due to the presence of the Crawford Lake Conservation Area), the road resumes just east of Guelph Line and continues until the Milborough Townline on the boundary between Milton and the former township of Flamborough (now Hamilton). East of Toronto-Pickering Town Line, the road becomes Taunton Road.

Steeles Avenue is one of the few east-west routes that has the distinction of being continuous from the Toronto/York Region to Peel Region (the others are Eglinton Avenue, Dundas Street, Highway 7, and Bovaird Drive/Castlemore Road/York Regional Road 73).

Steeles Avenue was listed as the worst road by CAA in October 2006, and was also listed as the 5th worst road in October 2007. [1] for potholes and general quality of surface. Soon after the results of CAA's survey had been made public, some parts of the road between Dufferin Street and Bayview Avenue were resurfaced.

The poor condition of Steeles is due partly because the road is laid on the boundary between City of Toronto and York Region (although completely within City of Toronto), and there are frequent disputes about which municipality should maintain the road. There was a recent argument at Redlea Avenue of who should pay for the installation of a traffic light.

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  1. ^ a b Ontario's Worst Roads Final Results (2007-10-04). Retrieved on 2007-10-06. by Ontario's Worst Roads (OWR) as one of the streets in the poorest condition due to congestion and potholes.

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