Vaughan Road

Vaughan Road is a road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a contour collector road that is parallel to a buried creek to the north called Castle Frank Brook. Vaughan Road begins on Bathurst Street south of St. Clair Avenue West, then it becomes a north-south street, hence its address numbering system, then it becomes a northwest-southeast street. Finally, Vaughan Road ends in a dead-end near the intersection of Eglinton Avenue and Dufferin Street. Vaughan Road Academy is named after this road.

History

Vaughan Road was built as early as 1850. Its original alignment began at Yonge Street, followed Davenport Road to Bathurst Street, then along the current alignment of Vaughan Road into Dufferin Street, in fact, there is still a curve in Dufferin Street at the intersection with Eglinton, where Vaughan Road connected before the Esso gas station was built at that intersection. Vaughan was then extended north along what is now Dufferin into Vaughan Township, which later became the City of Vaughan. Therefore, Vaughan Road is named after the township, which itself is named after Benjamin Vaughan, a British commissioner who signed a peace treaty with the United States in 1783. This road was popular with street racers in the 1950s due to its many curves from being parallel to a creek . Additionally, Vaughan Road is often used as a short cut between Allen Road and Downtown Toronto via Oakwood Avenue.

Public transit

The road passes through the communities of Humewood-Cedarvale and Oakwood-Vaughan. The Toronto Transit Commission bus route 90 Vaughan serves these communities. The terminus of the 90A branch is the Jesmond loop, which uses the streets Jesmond-Oakwood-Vaughan, thus named for one of the streets. The terminus of the main branch is the Eglinton loop, which is active during rush hour only. Both branches of the route feed into St. Clair West station. There is also a stop at Vaughan Road on the St. Clair West LRT.

External links

* [http://www.lostrivers.ca/points/vaughanrd.htm#er History of Vaughan Road]