- Kingston Road (Toronto)
Kingston Road (originally "The Kingston Road") was built by American engineer
Asa Danforth as a route to connectToronto (then called York) withKingston, Ontario . The name of the street is derived from the route toKingston, Ontario (also known as Governor's Road), then the primary settlement in the colony. It is one of the mainarterial road s in the eastern part of Toronto.The Toronto section runs from
Queen Street East , joining with Eastern Avenue, just west ofWoodbine Avenue (route toLake Shore Boulevard ) through Scarborough to Toronto's eastern city limits withDurham Region , where it continues asDurham Regional Highway 2 .The road was once part of Highway 2, but provincial downloading in the late 1990s meant that the road is now just a local route called Kingston Road.
A small portion of road parallel to Kingston Road is called Old Kingston Road running near the Highland Creek, east of Morningside Avenue. The road reverts to the original route, at the junction with the former Highway 2A, (as well as Military Trail).
The initial sections in the Beaches area take the form of a historic urban arterial road with extensive storefronts and pedestrian traffic. The TTC's 502 Downtowner and 503 Kingston Road
streetcar s run along Kingston Road during the daytime on weekdays (evening, weekend and holiday service is provided by buses). The speed limit in that section is 50 km/h (30 mph).Until Highway 401 was constructed, Kingston Road was the principal route from Toronto to points east. Accordingly, it became the site of numerous inns and
motel s, many of which still dot the road, particularly in Scarborough.Now some of these inns are being demolished to make way for townhouse developments. Kingston Road is still a fast route to go from Scarborough to
The Beaches , being a six-lane principal arterial road through most of Scarborough, with a 60 km/h (40 mph) speed limit for the most part.ee also
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