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Yonge North of the City

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Yonge Street North of Toronto is one of the densest lines of development in the GTA, and the most continuously urbanized Northern Routes out of the City, on Canada's longest street. Going back to before 1899 when the first electric streetcars plied North of Toronto to Sutton, developments have sprung up along here in different iterations, the most intense and noticeable of which was the sixty or so years of unbridled car-oriented sprawl that followed the streetcar tracks being removed in 1947.

suburbanization ballooned here in the way one might expect; a seven lane Yonge oozes North of Steeles in a sombre procession of single occupant vehicles, flanked by sad looking cinderblock bunkers selling discount rugs and ample parking.

Anyways, there are a lot of things changing around here. in 2005 VIVA/ York Region Transit began running a BRT system in mixed traffic from Finch Station to Davis Drive in Newmarket, and pressure from land developers in the area has mounted to even suggest the Province extend the Yonge subway line up to Highway 7.

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Several high density projects are already filling in the empty spaces left by piecemeal sprawl; almost finished just North of Steeles is World on Yonge and the Minto Water Garden, both long gone shopping center sites. North of the 407 there is Grand Genesis, Beverley Hills and Xpression clustering around the Hillcrest Mall at Carrville and Yonge. in between these condos are the vacant lots and crumbling plazas that invoke heated OMB battles between developers and nearby car driving citizens.

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