page_title: The Queensway
section_title: Name
hierarchical_section_title: The Queensway / Name
caption_attribution_description: English: The Queensway (Peel Regional Road 20) in Mississauga, Canada, east of Dixie Road and west of the Etobicoke Creek, where its median is occupied by a Hydro corridor.
context_page_description: The Queensway is a major street in the municipalities of Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is a western continuation of Queen Street, after it crosses Roncesvalles Avenue and King Street in Toronto. The Queensway is a divided roadway from just east of Parkside Drive westerly to just beyond South Kingsway, and has a centre median dedicated to streetcar service. The road continues undivided west from the Humber River west to the Etobicoke Creek as a four- or six-lane thoroughfare.
  After crossing the creek, it enters Mississauga under Peel Region jurisdiction as Peel Regional Road 20, as far west as Mavis Road, with the westernmost portion to Glengarry Road being maintained by the City. There is a road allowance with hydro lines, cutting into the Mississaugua Golf & Country Club on the shores of the Credit River. In the 1990s, the name Queensway was eliminated on the roads on this allowance west of the river. The street gives its name to Etobicoke's The Queensway neighbourhood.
context_section_description: The Queensway in Toronto was once named Queen Street and was officially the western part of the street in Old Toronto. There were three separate portions: the easternmost being a stub of the main section of Queen that continued west of Roncesvalles Avenue to Colborne Lodge Drive; a central section separated from it by a swampy area south of Grenadier Pond in High Park, running west of Ellis Avenue; and the westernmost running through the former  Etobicoke west of the Humber River. The section west of the Humber became The Queensway in 1947 to avoid confusion due to the break, but the name "Queen Street" was not restored after the present Queensway was completed to connect the sections of the formerly broken street. The most likely reason for this was because the Borough of Etobicoke desired a counterpart to another street called The Kingsway.
  In Mississauga, the road is simply named "Queensway", with east and west designations on either side of Hurontario Street: Queensway East and Queensway West    
  Overhead exit signs on Highway 427 formerly showed The Queensway as "Queensway Avenue" while present signs use the proper designation. It is unclear as to why the older signs use an incorrect name, but it was likely to avoid confusion with adjacent exit signs for the parallel Queen Elizabeth Way. After provincial downloading in 1998, there was no longer any need for the Queensway Avenue signage once the eastern QEW was redesignated as the Gardiner Expressway, although that signage was still present mixed with the proper signs for a time after the downloading.
  From 1953 to 1954, The Queensway was signed briefly as Ontario Highway 108 when it was under the-then Department of Highways from Highway 27 (Highway 427) and the eastern end of the Queen Elizabeth Way.
caption: East of Dixie Road, The Queensway runs with a hydro corridor in its median.
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