Black Creek Drive

Black Creek Drive
400 Extension
Map
A map of Black Creek Drive
Route information
Maintained by City of Toronto
Length3.5 km[1] (2.2 mi)
Existed1982–present
Major junctions
South endWeston Road
Major intersectionsEglinton Avenue West
Trethewey Drive
Lawrence Avenue West
North end Highway 400
(Jane Street)
Location
CountryCanada
ProvinceOntario
Major citiesToronto
Highway system
Nearby arterial roads in Toronto

Black Creek Drive is a limited-access arterial road[2] in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A four-lane route that runs north–south, it connects Weston Road and Humber Boulevard with Highway 401 via Highway 400, the latter of which it forms a southerly extension. Black Creek Drive officially transitions into Highway 400 at the Maple Leaf Drive overpass, southeast of the Jane Street interchange. The roadway is named after the Black Creek ravine, which it parallels for most of its route. It features a maximum speed limit of 70 km/h (43 mph).

Following the path of a proposed freeway extension of Highway 400, it was built instead as an arterial road with at-grade intersections by the provincial government. While Metropolitan Toronto and the Province of Ontario sought to extend Highway 400 south to the Gardiner Expressway, public opposition to building freeways into central Toronto resulted in the road being constructed only as far south to Weston Road as a limited controlled-access expressway with at-grade intersections.

  1. ^ "Black Creek Drive – Length and Route" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved June 3, 2021.
  2. ^ Transportation Services, City of Toronto 2008, p. 55.