the lemur
Senior Member
Interesting - thanks for posting that. Reminds me of the remnant of Pottery Rd. I see there are also abandoned rail tracks there.
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Interesting - thanks for posting that. Reminds me of the remnant of Pottery Rd. I see there are also abandoned rail tracks there.
the lemur
Senior Member
Found it online ... still seems odd, but perhaps a Goad-type map from that era would clarify things.
Anna
Active Member
I thought that whoever owned the property didn't want the road going through, but looking at the property lines here, I'm not so sure.
http://map.toronto.ca/imapit/iMapIt.jsp
http://maps.library.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/files.pl?idnum=1421
doady
Senior Member
They need to connect the two parts of Lawrence Ave. East into a single road.
Also in Mississauga, the two parts of Stavebank Rd. should be reconnected, and perhaps renamed Mavis Rd.
Also in Mississauga, the two parts of Stavebank Rd. should be reconnected, and perhaps renamed Mavis Rd.
That would involve punching an arterial road through one of the richest areas in Toronto though (the Bridle Path). It would be very much worth it from a network perspective, but I think you'd see a lot of deep pocket NIMBY opposition to it.
Add another one to the list: Upper Middle Road between Burloak and Bronte. That would do a lot to help connect Oakville and Burlington, because there are no crossings of the ravine between Dundas St and the QEW. It's already a full arterial road between those two points, but it dwindles to a local road and then eventually nothing between those two. I suppose that any such bridge would be handled by Halton Region.
EDIT: They could also then have Tremaine extend south of Dundas, and potentially jog on Upper Middle to connect with Burloak, creating another vital N-S arterial in the area.
EDIT: They could also then have Tremaine extend south of Dundas, and potentially jog on Upper Middle to connect with Burloak, creating another vital N-S arterial in the area.
doady
Senior Member
Lawrence Ave East is one of the best corridors in Toronto for modern light rail, way better than any Transit City corridor. If they don't reconnect the two parts, I guess the LRT could just tunnel under, but that would be expensive.
That's what I was going to suggest. A road link would face huge opposition, but a rail only link may be possible. It would require about 2km worth of tunnelling, from just west of Bayview to just west of Leslie).
And it may actually be easier to go under the West Don than it would be to go over it, especially given the Bayview bridge and everything there.
Anna
Active Member
The mysterious 'block X' at the bottom of the 1924 Goad's might explain it. But - Albany, Howland, Brunswick, Kendal, that far north?
https://www.googledrive.com/host/0BwadvTiFXSLcNmNMeEJDeW82Nlk/goad/1924/00075.jpg
Has anyone mentioned Walmer?
dunkalunk
Senior Member
Along the lines of probably will never happen but how about playing a game of "move the bottleneck" by extending the Allen to Bathurst via a tunnel through Cedarvale Park?
google map
You'd then of course have to toll the whole thing, and even then it would probably never pay for itself, but wouldn't it be neat? Besides, the precedent for tolling municipal highways has to start with a network improvement somewhere.
google map
You'd then of course have to toll the whole thing, and even then it would probably never pay for itself, but wouldn't it be neat? Besides, the precedent for tolling municipal highways has to start with a network improvement somewhere.
Electrify
Senior Member
I know Leslie has been mentioned, but what about Woodbine? I know the 404 through North York covers its old route (hence the jog at Steeles), but what about connecting to the stretch in East York and East Toronto?
toraerach
Active Member
Wouldn't a connected Upper Middle run straight through a provincial park?
As for discontinuous in Toronto, Lansdowne comes to mind as a particularly odd case. Its three sections are so obviously not supposed to connect, one wonders if the guys in charge of naming them just got lazy.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
BTW. Lower Middle Road was the original name of the country road that became the Queen Elizabeth Way.
It would, but it would just be a bridge. There would be no development on that stretch of the road. Purely for connectivity purposes.
Yup. There's still a small section of it in existence, just east of the Ford plant where Royal Windsor (which superseded it) crosses the rail tracks.
adma
Superstar
And there's also that stranded section of Duplex 'way up in the depths of North York (unless it's been superceded by the rampant Beecrofting of street patterns)