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Major Mackenzie Drive
Major Mackenzie Drive, often shortened to Major Mac, is a major east-west arterial road in southern York Region, Ontario, Canada, just north of Toronto. It is a York regional road, numbered as York Regional Road 25, and passes through the three cities of southern York Region: Vaughan, Ontario, Richmond Hill, and Markham. It does not continue outside of York Region as an east-west road, but does cross into Brampton (in Peel Region) as Coleraine Drive which immediately curves sharply at the boundary to head north towards Bolton.
The road is named after Lex MacKenzie, a former local politician and World War I veteran (with Major being a reference to his military rank), although the road is officially spelled "Major Mackenzie" with a lowercase K.
The section west of Yonge Street was originally known as Maple Side Road (after the community of Maple though which it passed) while the portion east of Yonge was Seventeenth Avenue before being named after Lex Mackenzie, although a bypassed cul-de-sac near Warden Avenue is still named Old '17th Avenue'.
The road was laid out by early settlers as a concession road across the original York County to divide the land into farms. Most of the farmland is now gone (although some remains protected in eastern Markham within the Rouge National Urban Park) as residential development expands in York Region towards the north.
Major Mackenzie Drive stretches across Vaughan, Richmond Hill and Markham. Here are some nearby communities it runs through:
There are plans for a future connection between Major Mackenzie Drive and Mayfield Road in Brampton. The project is part of the Highway 427 Extension Area Transportation Master Plan, which aims to improve traffic flow and connectivity in the area. The new roadway is designated as Arterial A2 in the plan and will be a six-lane north-south connection. However, a specific construction timeline has not been announced yet.
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Major Mackenzie Drive
Major Mackenzie Drive, often shortened to Major Mac, is a major east-west arterial road in southern York Region, Ontario, Canada, just north of Toronto. It is a York regional road, numbered as York Regional Road 25, and passes through the three cities of southern York Region: Vaughan, Ontario, Richmond Hill, and Markham. It does not continue outside of York Region as an east-west road, but does cross into Brampton (in Peel Region) as Coleraine Drive which immediately curves sharply at the boundary to head north towards Bolton.
The road is named after Lex MacKenzie, a former local politician and World War I veteran (with Major being a reference to his military rank), although the road is officially spelled "Major Mackenzie" with a lowercase K.
The section west of Yonge Street was originally known as Maple Side Road (after the community of Maple though which it passed) while the portion east of Yonge was Seventeenth Avenue before being named after Lex Mackenzie, although a bypassed cul-de-sac near Warden Avenue is still named Old '17th Avenue'.
The road was laid out by early settlers as a concession road across the original York County to divide the land into farms. Most of the farmland is now gone (although some remains protected in eastern Markham within the Rouge National Urban Park) as residential development expands in York Region towards the north.
Major Mackenzie Drive stretches across Vaughan, Richmond Hill and Markham. Here are some nearby communities it runs through:
There are plans for a future connection between Major Mackenzie Drive and Mayfield Road in Brampton. The project is part of the Highway 427 Extension Area Transportation Master Plan, which aims to improve traffic flow and connectivity in the area. The new roadway is designated as Arterial A2 in the plan and will be a six-lane north-south connection. However, a specific construction timeline has not been announced yet.
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