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An interurban radial line operated by the Toronto and Mimico Electric Railway and Light Company ran along (then) "Lake Shore" Road beginning in 1892, running west as a short stub from Parkdale in Toronto to the Humber River. The line was extended to Mimico on July 10, 1893 and reached Long Branch on July 1, 1895. It arrived in Port Credit ...
It was created in 1999 from parts of Burlington South, Halton Centre, and a small part of South Oakville. When the riding was created, it included the city of Burlington east of a line following the Queen Elizabeth Way to Highway 403 to King Road and south of a line following Dundas Street to the 403 to Upper Middle Road to Walkers Line.
Highway 407 begins at the Highway 403/Queen Elizabeth Way junction in Burlington. Highway 407 is a 151.4-kilometre (94.1 mi) [1] controlled-access highway that encircles the GTA, passing through Burlington, Oakville, Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Markham, Pickering, Whitby, Oshawa, and Clarington, as well as travelling immediately north of Toronto.
Burlington Transit is the public transport provider in the city of Burlington, Ontario, Canada.Services began in September 1975, after the city had been served by neighbouring systems including Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) and former subsidiary Canada Coach Lines, as well as "local" services to and from Toronto once provided by Gray Coach Lines and GO Transit along Lakeshore Road ().
Burlington is at the southwestern end of Lake Ontario, just to the north east of Hamilton and the Niagara Peninsula, roughly in the geographic centre of the urban corridor known as the Golden Horseshoe. Burlington has a land area of 187 km 2 (72 sq mi). The main urban area is south of the Parkway Belt and Highway 407. The land north of this ...
[2] [3] The Greater Toronto Area begins in Burlington in Halton Region to the west, and extends along Lake Ontario past downtown Toronto eastward to Clarington in Durham Region. According to the 2021 census , the Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) of Toronto has a total population of 6.202 million residents, making it the nation's largest , and the ...
The east–west-aligned middle section of the Halton Subdivision was built in the 1850s by the Grand Trunk Railway.Initially a line to the villages of Weston and Georgetown west of Toronto, it was extended through Guelph and Kitchener (then known as Berlin) by 1856, [5] then further extended westward to Sarnia via St. Marys Junction.
The streetcar line runs along this segment for a short distance before leaving the street to enter Humber Loop via a short tunnel under the expressway. Lake Shore then briefly downgrades to a two-lane local street and then becomes one lane (and one way) eastbound as it merges with the eastbound offramp from the expressway (which provides the ...