Lake Shore Boulevard West

Lake Shore Boulevard
Lake Shore within Toronto
Route information
Maintained by City of Toronto
Major junctions
West end:	Toronto-Mississauga boundary (continues as Lakeshore Road)
	Browns Line Kipling Avenue Islington Avenue Royal York Road Parklawn Road Gardiner Expressway Parkside Drive Bathurst Street Spadina Avenue Bay Street Yonge Street Jarvis Street Sherbourne Street Parliament Street / Queens Quay Leslie Street
East end:	Woodbine Avenue (continues north as Woodbine)
Highway system
Roads in Ontario Nearby arterial roads ← Gardiner Expressway Lakeshore Boulevard N/A →

Roads in Ontario

Lake Shore Boulevard (often incorrectly compounded as Lakeshore Boulevard) is a major arterial road running along most of the Lake Ontario waterfront in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Prior to 1998, two segments of Lake Shore Boulevard (from the Etobicoke–Mississauga boundary to the Humber River and from the eastern terminus of the Gardiner Expressway to Woodbine Avenue) were designated as part of Highway 2.

Lake Shore Boulevard's western terminus is Etobicoke Creek, the western boundary of Toronto. Its western section is a redesignation of the old Lakeshore Road, which still runs from Burlington to Mississauga. From here its route follows closely, though not always within sight of, the shoreline of Lake Ontario eastward through the city to Ashbridges Bay, where it intersects with Woodbine Avenue at Woodbine Beach. The former route of Highway 2 then follows Kingston Road east.

From the western city limit, Lake Shore Boulevard (designated Lake Shore Boulevard West), originally part of Lakeshore Road, is a four-lane arterial road through the neighbourhoods of Long Branch, New Toronto and Mimico. This section is lined with commercial and retail uses. The area furthest to the west was more industrial in character, which continues to be converted to other uses. As the street gets nearer to Humber Bay, the Mimico area becomes almost entirely residential and somewhat older as it was one of the first areas of cottage development for city dwellers. East of Park Lawn Road, the street is lined to the south with recently built condominium towers on the former stretch of motels known as "The Motel Strip". No motels now remain from the period when travelers would stay at motels here, which was then just outside the Toronto city limits.

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