Warden Avenue

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This article is about Warden Avenue in City of Toronto. For the portion of Warden Avenue in Southern York Region, see York Regional Road 65.

For the portion of Warden Avenue in Town of Georgina, see Civic Center Drive.

Warden Avenue is a major north-south throughfare in Scarborough, Ontario Canada.

1 Road information
2 Naming of the road
3 Public transit
4 Arterial routes that cross Warden Avenue
5 Arterial routes that are parallel with Warden Avenue
6 See also
- 6.1 External links

[edit] Road information

Official name: Warden Avenue
Municipalities: Toronto (Scarborough)
Length: 15 km
Transportation: Served mainly by TTC Route 68. Warden Station on the Bloor Danforth Subway, and junction with Highway 401.
Road status: Paved with 4 lanes for the whole length. The road ends with an intersection with Kingston Road.
Zonings: Originally rural, rezoned and now mainly residential along the route, occasional commercial developements where the road meets other major intersections (Eglinton Power Centre, Bridlewood Mall). Industrial areas being rezoned between Danforth Road and Eglinton, which were initially developed as World War II munitions plants. Centennial College Ashtonbee Campus also located on road.
Southern terminus: Kingston Road
Northern terminus: Steeles Avenue

[edit] Naming of the road

Warden Avenue is named after Warden House found on Warden Avenue in Markham, Ontario. It is the north-south lot division of lots 31 and 32, of the former Township of Scarbrough, and was surveyed in 1865.

[edit] Public transit

Warden Avenue is served by TTC Routes 68 (Warden), 69 (Warden South), 135 (Gerrard), and 324 (Blue Night). TTC Route 68 starts at Warden Station, and work its way towards the north, with an off-street loop just beyond the Toronto boundary at Steeles Avenue. TTC Route 68B travels into York Region. Night bus service is provided between Steeles and Sheppard, as well as at Danforth, as a connector between routes 300 (Bloor-Danforth) and 302.

The Bloor-Danforth Line of TTC also provides a subway station named Warden, where Warden Avenue meets St. Clair Avenue East. The station is the 27th busiest out of 69 TTC subway stations^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Arterial routes that cross Warden Avenue

(From south to north)

[edit] Arterial routes that are parallel with Warden Avenue

(From west to east)

[edit] See also

v • d • e Roads in Toronto, Ontario
North-South streets:	Albion • Avenue • Browns • Bathurst • Bay • Bayview • Birchmount • Bridle Path • Brimley • Broadview • De Grassi • Don Mills • Dufferin • Homewood • Islington • Jane • John • Keele • Kennedy • Kipling • Leslie • Markham • McCaul • McCowan • Morningside • Oakwood • Palmerston • Roncesvalles • Spadina • University • Vaughan • Victoria Park • Warden • Weston • Woodbine • Yonge
East-West streets:	Bloor • Carlton • College • Danforth • Dundas • Eglinton • Ellesmere • Finch • Front • Gerrard • King • Kingston • Lake Shore • Lawrence • Parkwoods Village • Pemberton • Queen West • Queen's Quay • Queensway • Sheppard • St.Clair • Steeles • Wilson • York Mills
Expressways and highways:	2A • 27 • 400 • 401 • 404 • 427 • Allen Road • Black Creek Drive • Don Valley Parkway • Gardiner
Defunct expressways:	Crosstown • Richview • Spadina Expressway • Scarborough Expressway
Other Ontario cities: Markham • York Region • Hamilton • Essex County • Windsor • Mississauga