词条 | Sheppard Avenue |
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|province=ON |name= Sheppard Avenue |maint= City of Toronto City of Pickering |alternate_name= Twyn Rivers Drive |marker_image= |established= |length_km= |length_ref= |map= Sheppard Ave map.png |map_notes= Sheppard Ave. (Red) and Twyn Rivers Dr. (Green) within Toronto |cities= Toronto Pickering |direction_a= West |direction_b= East |terminus_a = Weston Road |terminus_b = Toronto: Kingston Road (Continues south as Port Union Road) Pickering: Fairport Road |junction= Jane Street |browse={{on-exp browse |title= Nearby arterial roads |next_link= Finch Avenue | route= Sheppard Avenue |previous_link = Wilson Avenue York Mills Road Ellesmere Road Kingston Road }} }}Sheppard Avenue is an east–west principal arterial road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The street has two distinct branches near its eastern end, with the original route being a collector road leading to Pickering via a turnoff, and the main route following a later-built roadway which runs south to Kingston Road. To avoid name duplication, the Toronto portion of the northern branch was renamed Twyn Rivers Drive. The section of the street entirely in Toronto is (34.2 km) in length,[1] while the Pickering section and Twyn Rivers Dr. is (5.4 km) long.[2] HistorySheppard is named for Joseph Shepard I, who acquired {{convert|400|acre|ha}} of land at the northwest corner of Sheppard and Yonge Street. His son opened a general store there. The site was occupied in 1860 by the Dempsey Hardware Store, which was later moved and restored as a museum. In the mid-2010s, a commercial building was constructed on the original site. Sheppard was a sideroad between lots 15 and 16 York Township[3] In the former Scarborough municipality, Sheppard was once called the Lansing Sideroad. A post office known as "Lansing" occupied the corner of Yonge and Sheppard.[3] Route descriptionSheppard Avenue EastEast of Yonge Street, Sheppard travels east through North York to Highway 404. Historically, it continued straight to Victoria Park Avenue at the Scarborough border, where drivers then turned south to meet up with the Sheppard section through Scarborough. However, a new section called the Lansing Cutoff was constructed joining the two disconnected pieces. The orphaned section of Sheppard between the 404 and Victoria Park was renamed Old Sheppard Avenue. {{coord|43|46|34|N|79|20|13|W|region:CA-ON_type:landmark|display=inline}} Sheppard continues straight east through Scarborough until just east of Meadowvale Road, where the Rouge River valley presents steep grades {{coord|43|48|33|N|79|09|58|W|region:CA-ON_type:landmark|display=inline}}, and so Sheppard curves southwards to meet Kingston Road just north of Highway 401. At that junction, it also meets Port Union Road, which heads south into the Port Union neighbourhood. However, the street originally continued straight east into the Rouge valley, but that section was renamed Twyn Rivers Drive after the connection to Port Union Rd. was constructed, though Twyn Rivers becomes Sheppard again (thus officially giving the street its two branches) at Altona Road just east of the Toronto-Pickering limits in Durham Region. It continues farther east as a collector road until it ends at Fairport Road just north of Kingston Road. {{coord|43|49|28|N|79|06|26|W|region:CA-ON_type:landmark|display=inline}} This routing parallels the alignment for Highway 401 and serves as an alternative if the highway is closed or congested. Sheppard Avenue WestWest of Yonge Street, Sheppard travels west across the Sheppard Avenue Bridge over the Don and past Bathurst Street and Wilson Heights Boulevard. Further west, the road allowance became blocked in 1939 by the appropriation of land for a De Havilland aircraft plant and, after World War II, Canadian Forces Base Downsview. A crescent-shaped section of road was finally constructed along the northern edge of the now former base in the 1970s, connecting Sheppard at Wilson Heights to Keele Street. {{coord|43|45|17|N|79|28|42|W|region:CA-ON_type:landmark|display=inline}} Today, Sheppard also intersects Allen Road on this section, but the intersecting portion of Allen Road was not constructed until 1982. Sheppard Avenue continues still further west to Weston Road and ends there due to the wide valley at the confluence of the two branches of the Humber River, preventing it from continuing further west. Public transportationThe Line 4 Sheppard subway runs under Sheppard Avenue East from Yonge Street to Don Mills Road, with proposals to continue the line farther eastwards to the Scarborough Town Centre and westwards to Sheppard West station at Allen Road. There are five stations on the line providing access to Sheppard Avenue, including {{ttcs|Bayview}}, {{ttcs|Bessarion}}, and {{ttcs|Leslie}}, as well as the {{ttcs|Sheppard–Yonge}} (at the junction with the Yonge section of Line 1 Yonge–University) and {{ttcs|Don Mills}} termini. Sheppard West station is located at the corner of Sheppard and Allen Road, and Downsview Park station is located between Keele Street and Allen Road. Four bus routes runs along Sheppard Avenue in Toronto from Sheppard–Yonge station:
Two express routes runs along Sheppard Avenue:
GO Transit has stations at Agincourt on the Stouffville line, on Sheppard between Kennedy Road and Midland Avenue, Oriole on the Richmond Hill line, southwest of the intersection of Leslie Street and Sheppard, and at Downsview Park on the Barrie line, on Sheppard between Keele Street and Allen Road. Communities
Attractions and landmarks
References1. ^{{Google maps |title= Sheppard Ave. route Toronto|url= https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/Weston+Rd+%26+Sheppard+Ave+W,+Ontario/Kingston+Rd+%26+Sheppard+Ave+E,+Scarborough,+ON+M1B/@43.7713847,-79.512822,11.46z/data=!4m74!4m73!1m65!1m1!1s0x882b3060a2266491:0xbca20c51eea52f0d!2m2!1d-79.5382304!2d43.7337398!3m4!1m2!1d-79.5148592!2d43.7390339!3s0x882b304d34849d7f:0xff13f3a75d19649b!3m4!1m2!1d-79.4970618!2d43.7424511!3s0x882b31b936bc84cd:0x6c6e4a612f1fbc36!3m4!1m2!1d-79.4426928!2d43.7546536!3s0x882b3274063b8e5d:0x41c92bff1bd6c928!3m4!1m2!1d-79.3989983!2d43.7641433!3s0x882b2d5cce2b0b69:0xb2914f1b94a67552!3m4!1m2!1d-79.3697699!2d43.7706261!3s0x89d4d2b7e9c29031:0x474dcfcdc5463258!3m4!1m2!1d-79.3507756!2d43.7742144!3s0x89d4d2ec06abb1f1:0xb8c9b183f9dfa9!3m4!1m2!1d-79.3322033!2d43.7752287!3s0x89d4d25850f7d595:0x135e871805fd85f1!3m4!1m2!1d-79.3043715!2d43.7795814!3s0x89d4d233d47cac27:0xed58fcb721825229!3m4!1m2!1d-79.2644533!2d43.7884365!3s0x89d4d10d0e438467:0x8e773a5850b39682!3m4!1m2!1d-79.2424398!2d43.7931014!3s0x89d4d0e18fe5dcc9:0xf3533b0e072b86c7!3m4!1m2!1d-79.2185295!2d43.7979419!3s0x89d4d0beee7e59f7:0x6256fe85cfc1652a!3m4!1m2!1d-79.197719!2d43.8023994!3s0x89d4da07d78d6c4d:0x59b8322e3f0bb1f7!1m5!1m1!1s0x89d4dbd04c44399f:0x940c687197e48f04!2m2!1d-79.1462108!2d43.7990331!3e0?hl=en|accessdate = May 6, 2017}} 2. ^{{Google maps |title= Sheppard Ave. route Pickering|url=https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/43.8091496,-79.1661595/Sheppard+Ave+%26+Fairport+Rd,+Pickering,+ON/@43.8101465,-79.1714698,13z/am=t/data=!3m1!4b1!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x89d4decb01fbcef1:0x4f68217ad2d01026!2m2!1d-79.107194!2d43.8243675!3e0?hl=en |accessdate = May 6, 2017}} 3. ^1 {{Cite web |url=https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/Images/Maps/TownshipMaps/yor-m-york-n.jpg |title=Historical Atlas York County}} External links{{Commons category|Sheppard Avenue, Toronto}}{{coord|43|45|42|N|79|24|36|W|region:CA-ON_scale:100000|display=title}}{{Streets in Toronto}} 3 : Roads in Toronto|Roads in Durham Region|Transport in Pickering, Ontario |
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