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Junglab2002
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This is easily rectified... just look at the timer on the crossing perpendicular to yours.
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This is easily rectified... just look at the timer on the crossing perpendicular to yours.
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Transportfan
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It doesn't really matter if Peel doesn't feel they're needed. Unlike in York, many main streets in Peel are city maintained. I think it's kinda silly that you find double standards in cities within RMs.
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Yeah, what Peel does and does not maintain appears to be inconsistant, except Caledon. This I think goes back to the old County system, and was not changed since, then if you think about it, you understand why.
In Mississauga and Brampton, the Peel Roads are Winston Churchill (only at Halton/Peel Border), Erin Mills Parkway/Mississauga (used to be responsible for Mississauga Road south of Meadowvale), Britannia, Cawthra, Dixie, Airport, Finch, Steeles, Derry, Queen (only from McMurchy to Mississauga!), Gore, Bovaird, Embleton, Mayfield, and Kennedy only from Bovaird to Steeles and downloaded Hwy 7).
These roads, plus the provincial highways, were the only important roads back around 1950 - they connected the towns and villages to each other. Steeles was the township boundary. Britannia was the other way in to Streetsville. Mississauga Road connected Port Credit to Streetsville and up. Kennedy in Brampton served the urbanized part. Peel's portion Queen only went as far as where the Town of Brampton took over. Peel built Erin Mills Parkway from scratch back in the mid 1970s as the main arterial and transferred Mississauga Road to the city, to serve the Meadowvale and Erin Mills explosions there. Burnhampthorpe, Eglinton (was Lower Base Line Road) and others were just dirt township roads.
I wonder why Highways 2 and 10 were given to the cities, while 7 was given to Peel, though.
I guess York was more proactive in taking over all those township roads that became arterials, like Metro did. Those township roads that I guess must have been taken over later - like 65 (Warden), 67 (McCowan), 73 (16th), Dufferin (53) would not have been more than dirt roads, but the lower numbered roads, like Kennedy that ran through Unionville (3), Woodbine, which served the Lake Simcoe towns (8), Keele, connecting to King City and Concord (6) and Islington, Woodbridge and Kleinburg (was 7, now 17) are the original county roads.
In Mississauga and Brampton, the Peel Roads are Winston Churchill (only at Halton/Peel Border), Erin Mills Parkway/Mississauga (used to be responsible for Mississauga Road south of Meadowvale), Britannia, Cawthra, Dixie, Airport, Finch, Steeles, Derry, Queen (only from McMurchy to Mississauga!), Gore, Bovaird, Embleton, Mayfield, and Kennedy only from Bovaird to Steeles and downloaded Hwy 7).
These roads, plus the provincial highways, were the only important roads back around 1950 - they connected the towns and villages to each other. Steeles was the township boundary. Britannia was the other way in to Streetsville. Mississauga Road connected Port Credit to Streetsville and up. Kennedy in Brampton served the urbanized part. Peel's portion Queen only went as far as where the Town of Brampton took over. Peel built Erin Mills Parkway from scratch back in the mid 1970s as the main arterial and transferred Mississauga Road to the city, to serve the Meadowvale and Erin Mills explosions there. Burnhampthorpe, Eglinton (was Lower Base Line Road) and others were just dirt township roads.
I wonder why Highways 2 and 10 were given to the cities, while 7 was given to Peel, though.
I guess York was more proactive in taking over all those township roads that became arterials, like Metro did. Those township roads that I guess must have been taken over later - like 65 (Warden), 67 (McCowan), 73 (16th), Dufferin (53) would not have been more than dirt roads, but the lower numbered roads, like Kennedy that ran through Unionville (3), Woodbine, which served the Lake Simcoe towns (8), Keele, connecting to King City and Concord (6) and Islington, Woodbridge and Kleinburg (was 7, now 17) are the original county roads.