Steeles Avenue

Steeles Avenue is an east-west street that forms the northern city border of Toronto and the southern border of York Region, Ontario, Canada. It is 38.75 km within Toronto, between Albion Road and the Scarborough-Pickering border.

Steeles Avenue
Major junctions
West end	Milborough Townline
East end	Scarbough Pickering Townline
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Major cities	Toronto Brampton Milton
Highway system
Roads in Ontario
Nearby arterial roads ← Finch Avenue Steeles Avenue York Regional Road 71, John Street (Markham), York Regional Road 7, Peel Regional Road 6, 5th Side Road (Halton Hills), Halton Regional Road 9 →

Steeles Avenue, near its joining with Warden Avenue.

Steeles Avenue West, viewed from the railway bridge which crosses above the road.

West of Albion Road, Steeles continues into Peel Region, where it is also known as Peel Regional Road 15. It runs through Brampton and into the Halton Region town of Milton. It stops at Appleby Line on top of the Niagara Escarpment due to the Crawford Lake Conservation Area being there, and then the road starts again just east of Guelph Line and goes until the Milborough Townline on the border of Milton and Hamilton. East of the Toronto-Pickering border, it becomes Taunton Road.

Name

Steeles is named after J. C. Steele, who owned a tavern on the street where it joins with Yonge Street.

Ontario's Worst Road

Steeles Avenue was listed as the worst road by the CAA in October 2006, and as the fifth worst road in October 2007. In October 2008, it was re-listed as worst road in Ontario. Reasons are potholes and the quality of the road. Soon after the CAA's listing, some parts of the road between Dufferin Street and Bayview Avenue were resurfaced.