Mavis/Chinguacousy Roads
| Mavis Road | |||||||
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| Peel Regional Road 18 | |||||||
| File:MavisInMississauga.png Mavis Rd. within Mississauga | |||||||
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| Maintained by City of Mississauga (south of Hwy. 407) Region of Peel (north of Hwy. 407) | |||||||
| Length | 14.6 km[1] (9.1 mi) | ||||||
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| South end | File:Peel Regional Road 20.png Queensway (Continues as Stavebank Road) | ||||||
| Dundas Street Burnhamthorpe Road Highway 403 Eglinton Avenue File:Peel Regional Road 3.svg Britannia Road Highway 401 File:Peel Regional Road 5.svg Derry Road File:407-ETR shield.png Highway 407 | |||||||
| North end | File:Peel Regional Road 15.svg Steeles Avenue (Continues as Chinguacousy Road) | ||||||
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Roads in Ontario
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Mavis Road and Chinguacousy Road are a pair of interconnected roads in Peel Region, Ontario, Canada, running in the cities of Mississauga, Brampton, and the Town of Caledon. Their combined lengths are approximately 37 kilometres (23 miles)[2]. Together, they bypass and/or follow Second Line West, which still exists in name today only in Mississauga's Meadowvale Village.
Mavis Road
Mavis Road begins at Queensway, as a continuation of Stavebank Road (a residential street), and runs north to Steeles Avenue, where Chinguacousy Road takes over. Between Highway 407 and Steeles Avenue, it is maintained by Peel Region and designated as Peel Regional Road 18.[3]
Unlike most major roads in Peel, and the Greater Toronto Area in general, Mavis Road was largely built in modern times. Only the southernmost portion was part of Peel's original concession road grid, and was named Stavebank Road, parts of which still bear that name (see above). The section north of Queensway was later renamed Mavis Road and was reconstructed as a major thoroughfare when the area became more developed. It was extended north of its original terminus at Eglinton Avenue to Britannia Road in 1991, and then extended north of Highway 401 (where a new interchange was constructed) in 1999 to its current terminus at Steeles Avenue. To connect with Chinguacousy Rd. at Steeles, the Mavis Rd. extension had to veer westwards from its main alignment and displaced Second Line West, which was subsequently either closed or broken up into various local streets (more information in the 'Chinguacousy Road' section), as the primary artery southwards.[4][5]
The CPR level crossing north of Dundas Street, since replaced by an underpass, was the site of the infamous 1979 Mississauga train derailment.
Public Transit
In Missisauga, Route 61 serves the route. It runs from the City Centre Transit Terminal south of Highway 403 and north to Sheridan College, near the road's intersection with Steeles Avenue during the week.[6] Route 61 does not serve Mavis Road north of Crawford Mill Avenue (south of Derry Road) on the weekends.[6]
| Chinguacousy Road | |||||||
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| File:Chinguacousy Road In Brampton.jpg Chinguacousy Rd. within Brampton (with the northern terminus of Mavis Rd. shown in blue) | |||||||
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| Maintained by City of Brampton Town of Caledon | |||||||
| Length | 23.5 km[7] (14.6 mi) | ||||||
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| South end | Dead end north of File:407-ETR shield.png Highway 407 | ||||||
| File:Peel Regional Road 12.svg Mavis Road ----Subsumed by Mavis Rd.---- File:Peel Regional Road 15.svg Steeles Avenue File:Peel Regional Road 6.svg Queen Street Williams Parkway File:Peel Regional Road 107.png Bovaird Drive Sandalwood Parkway File:Peel Regional Road 14.svg Mayfield Road File:Peel Regional Road 9.svg King Street | |||||||
| North end | Dead ends north of File:Peel Regional Road 12.svg Old Base Line Road | ||||||
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Roads in Ontario
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Chinguacousy Road
Chinguacousy Road is named after the former Chinguacousy Township, and formed a boundary of the township with the western limits of the Town of Brampton prior to the present city being established in 1974.[8] It essentially continues Mavis Road north of Steeles Avenue, though it officially begins as a minor dead end street north of Highway 407, which provides access to the Korean War National Memorial and Meadowvale Cemetery. It joins Mavis at Ray Lawson Boulevard where Mavis curves from the southeast to join the Second Line alignment (which Chinguacousy follows for its entire length), resulting in Chinguacousy being briefly subsumed by Mavis for 0.8 km (0.5 m.) south of Steeles.
In Brampton, heavy residential subdivision construction is ongoing in the areas along the west side of the road for nearly its entire distance through the city. A short distance north of Steeles it crosses the Orangeville-Brampton Railway tracks, and just south of Bovaird Drive (a downloaded portion of Highway 7, now Peel Regional Road 107), passes over the Canadian National line carrying GO Transit's Kitchener Line. It enters rural Caledon north of Mayfield Road (Peel Regional Road 14), traversing farmlands before entering the scenic Oak Ridges Moraine, near the community of Boston Mills, where it crosses the OBR tracks again. The road jogs at Boston Mills Road at the Credit River, and a short distance north passes the Caledon Trailway,[9] which is a part of the Trans-Canada Trail network. It continues past Old Base Line Road (Peel Regional Road 12) and dead ends after 1 km (0.6 mile).
Formerly, the road continued south to Eglinton Avenue in Mississauga (though Second Line was not named "Chinguacousy Road" there),[10] but was bypassed when Mavis Road was extended north of Eglinton. In Mississauga, most of Second Line is now named Terry Fox Way, which becomes Silken Laumann Way north of Britannia Road, and there are also two sections forming parts of residential side streets. Only the section north of Highway 401 is still called Second Line West today. When a new alignment of Derry Road was constructed, the road was dead-ended south of it, with the section to the north abandoned. It also crossed Highway 401 until 2016, when the overpass was demolished for a highway widening project. A pedestrian bridge (opened in 2020) was constructed to replace the original structure.[11]
Public Transit
Brampton Transit route 4 Chinguacousy serves the route all week from Steeles Avenue to Wanless Drive.[12] Brampton Transit also operates route 104, an express route which provides southbound service in the morning and northbound service in the afternoon. It runs on Chinguacousy Road from Steeles Avenue to Bovaird Drive.[13]
References
- ↑ Google. "Mavis Road route" (Map). Google Maps. Google.
- ↑ Google. "Combined Mavis and Chinguacousy Roads route" (Map). Google Maps. Google.
- ↑ https://www.peelregion.ca/pw/roads/road-map/pdf/peelroad-map2.pdf[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Aerial photo of Second Line West south of Highway 401 in 1975". City of Toronto Archives (via Eloquent Systems Inc.). Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ↑ Google. "Satellite view of road grid of the area in 2018" (Map). Google Maps. Google.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "61 Mavis Schedule" (PDF). mississauga.ca. City of Mississauga. 2 September 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- ↑ Google. "Chinguacousy Road route" (Map). Google Maps. Google.
- ↑ The Regional Municipality of Peel Act, 1973 P. 260, S.O. 1973, c. 60
- ↑ "Caledon Trailway". Ontario Trails.
- ↑ Mississauga, Oakville, Milton (Map). Cartography by MapArt. Peter Heiler. 1996. ISBN 1-55198-331-1.
- ↑ "Second Line West Structure". City of Mississauga. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
- ↑ "Route 4 Chinguacousy Full Schedule" (PDF). brampton.ca. City of Brampton. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- ↑ "104 Chinguacousy Express Full Schedule" (PDF). brampton.ca. City of brampton. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
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