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The Dundas Street bus rapid transit (Dundas BRT) is a proposed bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor proposed by Metrolinx that would run along Dundas Street. It is planned to run from Kipling Bus Terminal, which connects to Line 2 Bloor–Danforth in Etobicoke , Toronto to Highway 6 in Waterdown, Hamilton.
Following controversy over the namesake of Dundas Street, Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, who delayed the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, [7] Toronto City Council voted in 2021 to rename Dundas Street and other civic assets named after Dundas – such as Dundas station. [8] A new name will be chosen in April 2022. [8]
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The site is bordered on the north by Dundas Street, on the east by Victoria Street, and on the west by Yonge Street, and on the south by a street named Dundas Square. Dundas Street; an east–west street extended east through Downtown Toronto from near its original eastern terminus near Ossington Avenue by connecting several pre-existing ...
Following controversy over the namesake of Dundas Street – Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, who delayed the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade [3] – Toronto City Council voted in 2021 to rename Dundas Street and other civic assets named after Dundas, such as Dundas West station. [4] A new name was to be chosen in April 2022. [4]
Troost Avenue was originally named after a slave-owner and now more than 1,600 residents want to see the street name changed. Here are what steps need to take place to make that a reality.
King Street in 1804. Later renamed Front Street, the road was one of York's original streets. During Simcoe's time in Toronto, two main roads were laid out in the city: Dundas Street, named after Henry Dundas and Yonge Street, named after Sir George Yonge, the British Secretary of State for War. The Queen's Rangers and conscripted German ...
IU and the city of Bloomington have some recent experience in changing street names; in 2021, IU and the city renamed Jordan Avenue to Eagleson Avenue, after the Eagleson family, a prominent Black ...