Jane Street (Toronto)

Jane street's southern end is at Bloor St, at Jane station. It is practically a northward continuation of South Kingsway, a semi-major road one block to the west, though the intended continuation of it is a jog west on Bloor to The Kingsway. Jane is a 4 lane road for the entire length until Teston, though it has a median for most of it north of Eglinton. It passes primary residential areas in the entire Toronto region, and in York Region after passing Hwy 407, it becomes a commercial street before Major Makenzie when becomes residential again, and at Teston it becomes rural and goes down to 2 lanes until its northern terminus at Davis Drive.

The street passes by the infamous intersection/neighborhood of Jane and Finch, an infamous neighborhood for having a high crime rate.[2] Passing Steeles, Line 1's western branch parallels Jane for 2km until Hwy 7. In York region Jane Street is called regional road 55, as part of its road numbering system. It travels through places such as Canada's Wonderland and Vaughan Mills.

The street was named after Jane Barr by her husband, James. They immigrated from Glasgow in 1907, and a few years later James became a real estate developer in the region north of then York or Toronto. James named numerous streets in the development after his children, but the most important was named after his wife Jane.

Originally, the street continued south to Lake Ontario with a sinuous course, but that section was redesignated as South Kingsway after Bloor Street was extended west across the Humber River (where it originally ended) by being realigned into a reverse curve which incorporated a short length of the southern segment of Jane, severing it from the section north of Bloor.[3] Also, until the early 1970's the street had a break through the valley of the Humber River, near what is today Eglinton Avenue, which itself ended at the river on the east side. The two sections of Jane were joined by bridging the river in a combined project which included extending Eglinton across the valley by linking up with the Richview Side Road on its west side in Etobicoke.[4][5]

In 2007 there was a proposal for a Jane LRT, which would've gone into the middle of the street, but in 2010 it was canceled with Rob Ford becoming mayor, and never really put again as a project.[6]

Jane street has 4 subway stations along it, from north to south:

on Line 1:

• Vaughan Metropolitan Center

• Hwy 407

• Pioneer village

on Line 2:

• Jane

In the city of Toronto, TTC route 35 Jane operates daytime from Jane station to Pioneer village station, with a branch(35B) going via Hullmar drive between Finch and Steeles serving the Black creek neighborhood.[7] It has express route with the same route as the main 35A branch, the 935 Jane express,[8] and a night route, the 335 Jane blue night.[9] During rush hours, the 35/935 can be notoriously slow.[1]

In York region, YRT route 20 Jane operates from Pioneer village station to Teston road.[10]

TTC line 1’s university branch parallels Jane Street from Pioneer Village at Steeles to Vaughan Metropolitan Center at Hwy 7.

• List of north-south roads in Toronto