Eglinton Avenue
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Eglinton Avenue is an east-west throughfare 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 is home to a number of Caribbean owned stores.
Eglinton Avenue is one of the few east-west routes in the city north of Bloor Street that crosses uninterrupted in a more or less straight line along 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 a subway under Eglinton Avenue West was abandoned in the late 1990s by the Mike Harris government after the tunnel had been started from Eglinton West station.
Attractions along Eglinton:
- Eglinton Flats Park
- Eglinton Square
- The Golden Mile
- Canada Square
- TVOntario Headquarters
- Sunnybrook Park
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