Hurontario Street



Hurontario Street
Main Street
Highway 10
Centre Road
Simcoe County Road 124

Hurontario St. within Mississauga
Route information
Maintained by City of Mississauga
City of Brampton
Ontario Ministry of Transportation
Town of Orangeville
Town of Mono
Township of Mulmur
County of Simcoe
Town of Collingwood
Existed: 1818[1] – present
Major junctions
South end: Lakeshore Road in Missisauga
   Queen Elizabeth Way
Dundas Street
Burnhamthorpe Road
 Highway 403
Eglinton Avenue
 Highway 401
 Highway 407
Steeles Avenue
Queen Street
Bovaird Drive
 Highway 410
 Highway 9
 Highway 89
------ Name break ------
Resumes at/as Simcoe Road 124 near Glen Huron
Simcoe Road 91
 Highway 26 (First/Huron Streets)
North end: Side Launch Way in Collingwood
Location
Divisions: Peel
Dufferin
Simcoe
Major cities: Mississauga
Brampton
Towns: Caledon
Orangeville
Mono
Collingwood
Highway system

Roads in Ontario

Nearby arterial roads
← Mavis Road/
Chinguacousy Road;
Highway 10 (North of Orangeville)
Hurontario Street
 Cawthra Road;
Highway 410;
Airport Road →

Hurontario Street is a roadway running in Ontario, Canada between Lake Ontario at Mississauga and Lake Huron's Georgian Bay at Collingwood.

Within much of the city of Brampton, the road is known as Main Street.

History

Hurontario Street was created by a survey in 1818 and originally called Centre Road,[1] and a bypassed section still exists with that name. The street's name is linked to its start and end points at Lake Huron and Lake Ontario.[1]

Route description

Looking north up Hurontario St. from Dundas St. with the iconic Absolute World towers rising in the distance
Hurontario St. in downtown Collingwood

Within the cities of Mississauga and Brampton, it is a major urban thoroughfare, which serves as the divide from which street numbering is reckoned east and west except (due to nostalgic reasons) at its foot in the historic Mississauga neighbourhood of Port Credit. Between Caledon and Orangeville, it is part of the busy Highway 10, which leaves the Hurontario Street alignment in Orangeville to head for Owen Sound. The reason for the highway's chosen alignment was due to old Orangeville's location farther to the west and (in the case of the former Highway 24 segment to the north), difficult terrain. In Orangeville, it runs as a residential side street and breaks at the Orangeville Reservoir. In Mono, it resumes as a minor gravel sideline to Highway 89, where it breaks again. It resumes once more as a series of broken minor roads with several names (including the aforementioned Centre Rd.) north of Boyne Valley Provincial Park, passing through the hamlets of Dunedin and Glen Huron. North of Glen Huron, it joins Simcoe County Road 124 (which, along with Highway 10, carries the Orangeville-Collingwood through traffic south of this point), until its terminus in Collingwood at Side Launch Way, one block north of First and Huron Streets (Highway 26). The final block is a short one-way northbound extension built in 2009[2] to serve a residential redevelopment project on the site once occupied by the now-closed Collingwood Shipyards.

As of November 15, 2009, there is a permanent discontinuity of sorts immediately outside the northern city limits of Brampton, in Caledon, where Hurontario Street meets Highway 410. The street changes into Valleywood Boulevard at the Highway 410 overpass. Northbound traffic must follow the sign for Highway 10 by turning right to enter the cloverleaf ramp to Highway 410, while southbound Hurontario Street traffic must now take an exit ramp to continue south on Hurontario.

Vernacular

Use of the "Highway 10" vernacular on commercial signage in Mississauga

The street is colloquially referred to as "Highway 10" by traffic reporters, and even by residents in the cities of Mississauga and Brampton (with the exception of the latter's downtown area), rather than by its street names – a situation made even more peculiar by the fact that the provincial highway designation is defunct in these cities. A prime example of this is the common reference to the street's intersection with Dundas Street as "5 and 10". The most likely reason for this is that the areas along the road were developed during the suburban era after its identity as a highway was firmly entrenched. The Ministry of Transportation's traffic camera continues to identify Hurontario as "Hwy 10" as well,[3] as does some signage at the Hurontario & 407 Park and Ride lot and transit terminal. However, the street name predominates in Collingwood.

In Mississauga and Brampton, the combination of the road's increasingly suburban nature, and the construction of Highway 410 was responsible for the removal of provincial highway status. The current provincially maintained route into Brampton and Mississauga from the north consists of Highways 410 and 403.

Public Transit

Hurontario St. is one of the busiest transit corridors in the 905 Region of the Greater Toronto Area. Mississauga and Brampton each run separate systems, but routes cross city boundaries. In addition to local routes operated by both cities, Brampton Transit operates a rudimentary bus rapid transit line along it, branded as Züm, and Mississauga's MiWay runs a limited-stop express bus route. The MiWay express bus and the southern portion of Zűm are slated to be replaced by a proposed light rail transit line that is to be constructed along the street in Mississauga and a short distance in Brampton (see Hurontario-Main LRT). The project has received funding approval by the Government of Ontario. [4]

The base trunk routes serving the street are:

Mississauga (MiWay):

Route Direction and Termini
19
 Hurontario[5] NB To Hurontario & 407 Park and Ride SB To Port Credit GO station
via Mississauga City Centre Transit Terminal
103
 Hurontario Express[6] NB To Brampton Gateway Terminal
(Steeles Avenue) 		SB To Port Credit GO station
Bypasses City Centre Transit Terminal

Brampton (Brampton Transit):

Route Direction and Termini
2
 Main[7] NB To Heart Lake Town Centre
via Sandalwood Parkway		 SB To Maritz Drive (Derry Road)
via Highway 407 Park and Ride
502
 Züm Main[8] NB To Sandalwood Parkway SB To Mississauga City Centre Transit Terminal
Bypasses Highway 407 Park and Ride and Downtown Brampton Terminal

Further north:

GO Transit runs a bus route along the road to Orangeville from Brampton's downtown bus terminal.

Route Direction and Termini
37
 Orangeville/Brampton[9] NB To Orangeville GO Park and Ride SB To Brampton Downtown Terminal

In Collingwood, Colltrans' East Route [10] operates along Hurontario for part of its run.

Attractions and institutions along Hurontario Street

Attractions and institutions along Hurontario Street in urban Peel Region include (south to north):

Caledon to Collingwood:

References

  1. 1 2 3 "History Bytes" Check |url= value (help). Heritage Mississauga. Mississauga Heritage Foundation. Retrieved November 2015.
  2. ↑ "Google Maps view of construction of street extension in Collingwood in 2009".
  3. ↑ "COMPASS Traffic Cameras - QEW - Halton, Peel Regions". Ministry of Transportation of Ontario. April 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
  4. ↑ "Newsroom: Ontario Moving Forward with Hurontario-Main Light Rail Transit Project".
  5. ↑ "19 Hurontario" (PDF). MiWay Route Maps. City of Mississauga. 28 January 2013. Retrieved November 2015.
  6. ↑ "103 Hurontario Express" (PDF). MiWay Route Maps. City of Mississauga. 2 September 2013. Retrieved November 2015.
  7. ↑ "2 Main" (PDF). Brampton Transit Route Maps. City of Brampton. 2 November 2015. Retrieved November 2015.
  8. ↑ "502 Züm Main" (PDF). Brampton Transit Route Maps. City of Brampton. 2 November 2015. Retrieved November 2015.
  9. ↑ Orangeville/Brampton GO Bus Map
  10. ↑ Colltrans Route Map and Schedule PDF (1.69 MB)
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