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OVERVIEW & HISTORY of FINCH Street  (Source: Wikipedia)

Finch Avenue is a major east-west principal arterial road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is also referred to as Durham Regional Road 37 east of Toronto, and as Peel Regional Road 2 west of Toronto. Like many other Toronto roads that bisect Yonge Street, Finch Avenue is divided into western and eastern halves.

 

History

The street is named after hotel owner John Finch, who operated a hotel at the northeast corner of Finch Avenue and Yonge Street in Toronto. The road allowance was a concession road, and at one time, there were a number of older churches, schoolhouses, and cemeteries on each side of the road. In the 1950s, Ontario Hydro constructed a series of transmission lines around Toronto, and paralleled Finch from Highway 400 eastward into Pickering. This routing is also a compressed natural gas pipeline.

West of Islington Avenue, Finch ended at the Humber River. Traffic proceeding west had to travel on Islington, northwards towards Steeles Avenue, or south across the Humber to Albion Road. As urban development came to the Toronto area, a Finch Avenue alignment was developed in this area, and was completed in the 1980s within Toronto (at Islington), and then briefly into Mississauga with the construction of Highway 427, and Brampton, turning northwestward onto the Gorewood Road concession (formerly Toronto Gore Township Concession 3). The road now ends at Steeles Avenue, where Gorewood Road is cut off by Highway 407. The concession is then called MacVean Drive in northeastern Brampton, north of Queen Street, the former Highway 7. It then continues into Caledon as Centerville Creek Road.

 

Transit hub

At the intersection of Finch Avenue and Yonge Street is the northernmost station of the TTC subway network and GO Transit Finch Terminal; formerly York Region Bus Terminal. TTC bus service on Finch runs 24 hours, on the 36 Finch West (309 Blue Night), and 39 Finch East (308 Blue Night). There is also a peak hours 139 Finch-Don Mills Express bus that serves the Don Mills Station on the Sheppard Subway line.

Preliminary planning is currently underway for the Etobicoke-Finch West LRT, a light rail line that is intended run in a private right-of-way along Finch Avenue West as part of the TTC's Transit City light rail plan.

 

Neighbourhoods along Finch Avenue

Other sites and neighbourhoods along Finch:

· Humber College Main Campus, near Highway 27

· Etobicoke General Hospital

· York-Finch Hospital — Humber River Regional

· York University, north on Keele Street and Sentinel Road

· G. Ross Lord Dam and Reservoir, on the Don River (Western Branch), near Dufferin Street/Allen Road

· North York Branson Hospital, near Bathurst Street

· Herb Carnegie North York Centennial Recreation Complex (opposite Branson)

· Esther Shiner Stadium, behind Northview Heights SS at Bathurst

· Finch Transit Terminal at Yonge Street.

· Finch Parkette — site of John Finch's Hotel and tavern in 1848; demolished in 1873

· Historic Zion Schoolhouse near Leslie Street

· Old Cummer GO Station at Leslie Street

· Seneca College Newnham Campus at Highway 404

· Toronto Zoo

 

Street details

Despite its length (one of the longest streets in the Greater Toronto Area), few major landmarks are located on Finch; it runs primarily through business and residential areas. When it intersects Yonge in Uptown, there are located office high-rises and condominiums.

Most of Finch Avenue west of Morningside Avenue is a four to six-lane principal arterial, with a speed limit of 60 km/h (35–40 mph) in most sections. East of Morningside, Finch is a discontinuous collector or minor arterial road (as Old Finch Avenue to Meadowvale) and detours via Meadowvale Road, Plug Hat Road and Beare Road. The road was broken up by residential development and Rouge Park. The street continues briefly east of Beare Road, and enters into the City of Pickering in Durham Region after Scarborough-Pickering Townline.

 

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