Jane Street
For the portion of Jane Street in York Region, Ontario, see York Regional Road 55.
Jane Street is a north-south thoroughfare in western Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that begins at Bloor Street and continues north into York Region to near the Holland River in King Township.
The street is most infamously known with the intersection of Jane and Finch where a number of murders and other forms of violence have taken place over the years.
The TTC operates Jane subway station at Jane and Bloor Street, once the western terminus of the "Jane/Bloor" streetcar line. However, there are plans to operate two additional subway stations on Jane in Vaughan as part of the extension of the Spadina branch of the Yonge-University-Spadina line.
Trivia
- The title character of the Barenaked Ladies song Jane is "Jane St. Clair", and is named after the intersection of Jane and St. Clair Avenue. Steven Page recalls that co-writer Stephen Duffy saw the intersection on a map and remarked that it sounded like the most beautiful intersection in the world; "I didn't have the heart to tell him it wasn't."
- There is a Jane Street in New York City.
See also
Major streets in Toronto which intersect with Jane Street (south to north):
- Bloor Street
- Dundas Street
- St. Clair Avenue
- Eglinton Avenue
- Weston Road
- Lawrence Avenue
- Wilson Avenue
- Sheppard Avenue
- Finch Avenue
- Steeles Avenue
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Unbuilt expressways | Crosstown · Richview · Spadina Expressway · Scarborough Expressway |
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