- Jane Street
Jane Street is a north-south thoroughfare in western
Toronto ,Ontario ,Canada , that begins atBloor Street and continues north into York Region to near theHolland River in King Township.The street is most infamously known with the intersection of
Jane and Finch where a number of murders and other forms of violence have taken place over the years.The TTC operates Jane subway station at Jane and
Bloor Street ; until the subway opened, this intersection was the western terminus of the "Jane/Bloor" streetcar line. There are plans to operate two additional subway stations on Jane in Vaughan as part of the extension of the Spadina branch of the Yonge-University-Spadina line. Proposed in the 2007Transit City plan is the Jane LRT, alight rail line to run almost entirely along Jane from the Jane subway station to the Steeles West station under development on the Yonge-University-Spadina subway line.Trivia
*The title character of the
Barenaked Ladies song "Jane" is "Jane St. Clair", and is named after the intersection of Jane andSt. Clair Avenue .Steven Page recalls that co-writerStephen Duffy saw the intersection on a map and remarked that it sounded like the most beautiful intersection in the world; "I didn't have the heart to tell him it wasn't."ee also
Major streets in Toronto which intersect with Jane Street (south to north):
*Bloor Street
* Dundas Street
*St. Clair Avenue
*Eglinton Avenue
*Weston Road
*Lawrence Avenue
*Wilson Avenue
*Sheppard Avenue
*Finch Avenue
*Steeles Avenue External links
* [http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=Bloor+St+W+%26+Jane+St+Toronto,+ON&daddr=Jane+St+%26+Steeles+Ave+W+ON&sll=43.71239,-79.503075&sspn=0.208454,0.466919&ie=UTF8&z=11&om=1 Google Maps of Jane Street]
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