page_title: Steeles Avenue
section_title: Route description
hierarchical_section_title: Steeles Avenue / Route description
caption_attribution_description: English: Steeles Avenue in Brampton, Ontario
context_page_description: Steeles Avenue is an east-west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of York Region, Ontario, Canada. It stretches 77.3 km across the western and central Greater Toronto Area from Appleby Line in Milton in the west to the Toronto-Pickering city limits in the east, where it continues east into Durham Region as Taunton Road, which itself extends 58 km across the length of Durham Region to its boundary with Northumberland County.
  York Region refers to Steeles Avenue as Regional Road 95, but the designation is strictly internal and there are no signs posted. Through Peel and Halton Regions, the street is signed as Peel Road 15 and Halton Road 8, respectively.
  The combination of Steeles and Taunton Road is the only arterial road to cross almost the entire Greater Toronto Area without breaks or turnoffs.
context_section_description: Starting from the east, the road begins at Scarborough-Pickering Town Line/York-Durham Line, although east of the town line, the road continues as Taunton Road or Durham Regional Road 4. It is a two-lane rural road until east of Markham Road. It becomes a four lane suburban road with bicycle lanes on each side between Markham and Kennedy Roads, six lanes from Kennedy to Victoria Park Avenue, and eight lanes from Victoria Park to Highway 404. West of there, it alternates between four and six lanes the rest of way to Albion Road. The Toronto-York Region portion of the road is maintained by Toronto. As a result, limited planning authority is granted to the City of Toronto over York Region for lands that is within 45 metres (148 ft) of Steeles; formalized through a 1974 agreement between the City of Toronto and York Region. Like many other east-west arterial roads within Toronto and York Region, Steeles is divided into east and west segments by Yonge Street.
  The areas around the street in Toronto and York Region consists of farmland (within the Rouge National Urban Park) in the east, a mix of commercial and residential in the middle, and industrial zones near the west.
  West of Albion Road, Steeles Avenue continues into Brampton in Peel Region, where it is also designated as Peel Regional Road 15. Like the section in Toronto, Steeles Avenue has east-west segments, this time on either side of Hurontario and Main Streets. It runs through Brampton and into Halton Region, where it is also designated as Halton Regional Road 8, through the town of Milton, ending at Appleby Line. Originally, the road had a second section west of the height of the Niagara Escarpment (the location of the Crawford Lake Conservation Area), which ran from just east of Guelph Line west to the Milborough Townline on the boundary between Milton and Hamilton, but this section was renamed to Conservation Road and is thus no longer part of Steeles.
caption: Steeles Ave. in Brampton
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