The Crosstown Expressway was a proposed expressway to be built in Toronto. It would have begun at the junction of Black Creek Drive and eastern end of the Richview Expressway and using the CN/CP railway corridor north of Davenport Road to Mount Pleasant Road. East of Mount Pleasant Road, the expressway would have cut into Rosedale to connect with Bayview Avenue. While land was obtained, very little of the expressway was actually built, apart from an interchange at the Don Valley Parkway, which now connects Bayview Avenue and Bloor Street. }|135px|City of Toronto, Ontario Official Flag]]|Coat Image=[[Image:{{{Coat Image}}}|135px|City of Toronto, Ontario Coat of Arms]]}} {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Diversity Our Strength {{Canadian City/Location Image is:{{{Location Image Type}}}|[[Image:{{{Location Image}}}|thumbnail|250px|City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Location. ... Black Creek Drive is a north-south arterial road in Toronto, Ontario that extends from the Highway 400/Highway 401 in the north to Weston Road in the south. ... Bayview Avenue is a major north-south route in Toronto, Ontario. ... Don Valley Parkway, looking northbound, in typical rush-hour traffic The Don Valley Parkway (often referred to as the DVP or simply as the Parkway) is a controlled-access freeway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, so named because it runs through the scenic Don River Valley. ... Bayview Avenue is a major north-south route in Toronto, Ontario. ... Bloor Street is a major east-west commercial thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...
Expressways have reshaped the Chicago region perhaps more than any other twentieth-century force, creating new business centers and dramatically expanding residential settlement.
Mike Royko's 1971 biography of Mayor Richard J. Daley, Boss, claims that the Dan Ryan Expressway route was shifted to reinforce the border between Daley's native Bridgeport and the Black Belt to the east.
The CrosstownExpressway (I-494), planned to extend west from the Dan Ryan Expressway along 75th Street, then north along Cicero Avenue to the Kennedy Expressway, was never built, however.
The mainline CrosstownExpressway was to continue southwest along Grays Ferry Avenue, where I-695 was to continue west of the Schuylkill Expressway (past the current EXIT 346B) as the Cobbs Creek Expressway.
The CrosstownExpressway would require the relocation of between 850 and 2,050 households (that is, between 2,900 and 5,300 residents), depending on the size and the location of the expressway.
By 1977, the demise of the CrosstownExpressway ultimately led to the cancellation of the Cobbs Creek and Lansdowne expressways, the feeder roads that were to connect to the Crosstown route.
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