The cancelled expressways in Toronto were a planned series of municipal expressways in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that were only partially built or cancelled due to public opposition. Metropolitan Toron
1943 City of Toronto Planning Board plan to criss-cross Toronto and suburbs with highways.
Metro Toronto 1954 plan. With some changes, this resembles the currently built network.
The Globe and Mail announces the cancellation of the Spadina Expressway, effectively the end of expressway construction in Toronto.
Part of Don Valley Parkway / Bloor off-ramp as it crosses Bayview Avenue in the Don Valley. Looking north along Bayview.
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Allen Road, formally known as William R. Allen Road, is a short municipal expressway and arterial road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It starts as a controlled-access expressway at Eglinton Avenue West,
Cancelled expressways in Toronto
…there to the coalition. The coalition was opposed to the demolition of homes and park lands, air pollution, noise and the high cost of construction. The Spadina Expressway, planned since the 1940s, was cancelled in 1971 after being only partially constructed. After the Spadina cancellation, the remaining expressway plans…
Allen Road, looking north from Glencairn Avenue
Tongue-in-cheek TTC ad, partly vandalized, on a southbound overpass before Eglinton where traffic is usually backed up, that reads "Take the car they said. It'll be faster they said. Next time take the TTC."
A trailblazer to Allen Road.