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 Sheppard Ave. (Red) and Twyn Rivers Dr. (Green) within Toronto | |||||||
 Interactive map of Sheppard Avenue | |||||||
| Maintained by | City ofToronto City ofPickering | ||||||
| Location | Toronto Pickering | ||||||
| West end | Weston Road | ||||||
| Major junctions | Jane Street Keele Street  Allen Road (ToDufferin Street north)Bathurst Street Yonge Street Bayview Avenue Leslie Street Don Mills Road  Highway 404Victoria Park Avenue Warden Avenue Kennedy Road McCowan Road Markham Road Neilson Road Morningside Avenue Meadowvale Road ------Road branches------  Atona Road (Pickering) Whites Road (Pickering) | ||||||
| East end | Toronto:Kingston Road (Continues south as Port Union Road) Pickering: Fairport Road | ||||||
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Sheppard Avenue is an east–west principalarterial road inToronto,Ontario,Canada. The street has two distinct branches near its eastern end, with the original route being a collector road leading toPickering via a turnoff, and the main route following a later-built roadway which runs south toKingston Road. To avoid name duplication, the Toronto portion of the northern branch was renamedTwyn 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]
Sheppard was asideroad between lots 15 and 16 York Township[3]
In the formerScarborough municipality, Sheppard was once called theLansing Sideroad. A post office known as "Lansing" occupied the corner of Yonge and Sheppard.[3]
East of Yonge Street, Sheppard travels east throughNorth York toHighway 404. Historically, it continued straight toVictoria 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.43°46′34″N79°20′13″W / 43.77611°N 79.33694°W /43.77611; -79.33694
Sheppard continues straight east through Scarborough until just east of Meadowvale Road, where theRouge River valley presents steep grades43°48′33″N79°09′58″W / 43.80917°N 79.16611°W /43.80917; -79.16611, and so Sheppard curves southwards to meetKingston Road just north ofHighway 401. At that intersection, it defaults into Port Union Road, which heads south into thePort 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 made in the early 1950s, though the renaming was not applied to the entirety of the bypassed section (thus officially giving the street its two branches) beyond Altona Road just east of the Toronto-Pickering limits inDurham Region. It continues farther east as a collector road until it ends at Fairport Road just north of Kingston Road.43°49′28″N79°06′26″W / 43.82444°N 79.10722°W /43.82444; -79.10722
West of Yonge Street, Sheppard travels west across theSheppard Avenue Bridge over theDon and pastBathurst Street and Wilson Heights Boulevard. Further west, the road allowance became blocked in 1939 by the appropriation of land for aDe Havilland aircraft plant and, afterWorld 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 toKeele Street.43°45′17″N79°28′42″W / 43.75472°N 79.47833°W /43.75472; -79.47833 Today, Sheppard also intersectsAllen 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 theHumber River, preventing it from continuing further west.
TheLine 4 Sheppard subway runs under Sheppard Avenue East from Yonge Street toDon Mills Road, with proposals to continue the line farther eastwards to theScarborough Town Centre and westwards toSheppard West station at Allen Road. There are five stations on the line providing access to Sheppard Avenue, includingBayview,Bessarion, andLeslie, as well as theSheppard–Yonge (at the junction with the Yonge section ofLine 1 Yonge–University) andDon Mills termini. Sheppard West station is located at the corner of Sheppard andAllen Road, andDownsview Park station is located betweenKeele Street andAllen Road. The extension of theLine 2 Bloor-Danforth subway will have the line terminate at Sheppard Avenue, where a future extension of Line 4 could meet with it in the future.
Six bus routes run along Sheppard Avenue in Toronto from Sheppard–Yonge station:
Three express routes runs along Sheppard Avenue:
Historical routes since 1990:
GO Transit has stations atAgincourt on theStouffville line, on Sheppard betweenKennedy Road and Midland Avenue,Oriole on theRichmond Hill line, southwest of the intersection ofLeslie Street and Sheppard, and at Downsview Park on theBarrie line, on Sheppard betweenKeele Street andAllen Road.
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