{"id":47201,"date":"2016-05-29T14:47:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T18:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wreckyratbird.com\/?p=47201"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:13:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:13:56","slug":"toronto-secret-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2016\/toronto-secret-routes\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Secret Routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Toronto Secret Routes<\/p>\n<p>Their existence may be very well hidden, but the former Metropolitan Toronto did have a network of numbered Metropolitan Roads! The only place I have seen them referred to, is updates to the Toronto by-laws. They are most certainly not posted, although they may be hidden within serial\/reference numbers on pieces of infrastructure (light standards, signal control boxes, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Toronto\u2019s roads are referred to by the prefix \u201cM.T.\u201d \u2014 e.g., Yonge Street is \u201cM.T. 29\u201d. Like the Interstate system, all even numbers run east-west, and all odd numbers run north-south. Also similar to Interstates, numbers generally increase from west to east and from south to north, although there are many exceptions. Similar to Ontario\u2019s 400-series highways, controlled-access M.T. roads start at M.T. 200; these numbers appear to also follow the even\/odd E-W\/N-S rule, although this theory would be better proved with the discovery of a number for Allen Road (formerly the Spadina Expressway).<\/p>\n<p>(Update \u2014 December 2001! I have come across a map in a planning document which has provided insight into the numbering of Allen Road. Unfortunately the numbers are hardly readable due to over-photocopying and over-reduction, but the Allen Road number appears to be 21, which would tie it to Spadina Avenue \u2014 makes sense when you think about the original plans to tie the two roads together. Certainly it is a two-digit number, not a three-digit \u201ccontrolled access\u201d number.)<\/p>\n<p>As I have yet to see an actual list of route numbers, the following lists may not include all number designations. It does, however, include all Metropolitan Roads referred to in the past four years of by-law amendments (1998-2001).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47202\" src=\"http:\/\/ontarioexploration.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/secretroads1-1.png\" alt=\"secretroads1\" width=\"617\" height=\"774\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47203\" src=\"http:\/\/ontarioexploration.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/secretroads2-1.png\" alt=\"secretroads2\" width=\"586\" height=\"818\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47204\" src=\"http:\/\/ontarioexploration.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/secretroads3-1.png\" alt=\"secretroads3\" width=\"1198\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080511231222\/http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/ontarioroads\/mt-routes.html\">Toronto Secret Routes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Note: The above content is copied (and screen capture) from a site which has been abandoned but is still findable with the Wayback Machine archives. \u00a0So far, I could not find the name of the original site owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2016\/toronto-secret-routes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Toronto Secret Routes\"><p>Toronto Secret Routes Their existence may be very well hidden, but the former Metropolitan Toronto did have a network of numbered Metropolitan Roads! The only place I have seen them referred to, is updates to the Toronto by-laws. They are most certainly not posted, although they may be hidden within serial\/reference numbers on pieces of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62],"tags":[1155],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76125,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47201\/revisions\/76125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}