Burnhamthorpe Road
Road in the Greater Toronto Area in Ontario, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Burnhamthorpe Road is a major arterial road in the cities of Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario; beginning at Dundas Street (from which it initially angles away from before running parallel with), near Islington Avenue, running west and becoming a rural road in the Town of Oakville, where it terminates (after breaking) at Tremaine Road, where it changes name.
Halton Regional Road 27 | |||||||||
Maintained by | City of Toronto City of Mississauga Region of Halton Town of Oakville | ||||||||
West end | Tremaine Road (Continues west as No. 1 Side Road) | ||||||||
Major junctions | Bronte Road Neyagawa Boulevard Trafalgar Road William Halton Parkway. ----Subsumed by W.H. Pkwy.---- Ninth Line Winston Churchill Boulevard Erin Mills Parkway Mavis Road Hurontario Street Cawthra Road Dixie Road Highway 427 Kipling Avenue | ||||||||
East end | Dundas Street | ||||||||
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Unlike most major streets originating in Toronto and continuing into the "905" suburbs, only a short portion is located in Toronto and the street is strongly Mississauga-centric. Also, although Burnhamthorpe is commonly seen as the latter city's main east-west street, the parallel arteries of Dundas Street and Eglinton Avenue are (with the notable exception of the City Centre area) busier and have heavier commercial uses along them overall[citation needed].
The north side of the right-of-way on the street's eastern half through Mississauga is unusually wide as the result of being reserved for a potential light rail transit line that was never built.[1] The reserve was converted into a bicycle trail,[2] with another transit facility (the Mississauga Transitway) being constructed farther north instead.
In Mississauga, the street, unlike most other arterial roads in the regional municipalities surrounding Toronto proper, is not a regional road. However, in Oakville it is signed as Halton Regional Road 27 as far west as Neyagawa Boulevard.