Front Street (Toronto)
The Front Street is about 3.7 km long road in the Canadian city of Toronto . It runs south of the city center in a west-east direction and roughly corresponds to the original shoreline of Lake Ontario . The bank is now around 800 meters further south, as most of the inner harbor was filled in through land reclamation in the 19th and 20th centuries. The street's history dates back to the late 18th century and to the British settlement of York . In the first few decades it was called Palace Street, derived from the Palace of Parliament , the parliament building of the colony of Upper Canada .
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The street begins in the west at the junction with Bathurst Street , not far from Fort York . It runs parallel to the main railway line, crosses Spadina Avenue and passes the Metro Toronto Convention Center . After the intersection with University Avenue , the street reaches Union Station , Toronto's main train station. Opposite this is the Hotel Fairmont Royal York . At the intersection with Bay Street is Brookfield Place (261 m) and the Royal Bank Plaza (180 m), the headquarters of the Royal Bank of Canada . This is followed by the intersections with Yonge Street , Jarvis Street and Parliament Street , until Front Street finally ends in a dead end.
Starting in 1999, the city of Toronto planned to extend Front Street along the Gardiner Expressway to Dufferin Street near Exhibition Place . This would have made the street two kilometers longer and should have contributed to the revitalization of the Liberty Village district. The project was highly controversial; Local residents fought it out of fear of increasing traffic. Finally, Mayor David Miller announced the end of the project.
literature
- Leonard Wise, Allan Gould: Toronto Street Names: An Illustrated Guide to Their Origins . Firefly Books, Toronto 2000, ISBN 1-55209-386-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Front Street Extension Project. (No longer available online.) City of Toronto on June 4, 2009, archived from the original on May 1, 2006 ; accessed on July 27, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Front Street Extension officially canceled. (No longer available online.) Spacing Toronto, May 29, 2008, archived from the original on November 30, 2011 ; accessed on July 27, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 43 ° 38 ′ 43 " N , 79 ° 22 ′ 55" W.