List of roads in Brampton
The following is a list of non-numbered and numbered in Brampton, Ontario.
History and layout
Most major roads in Brampton are concession roads laid out in the early 19th Century, in what was then Chinguacousy and Toronto Gore Townships. In Chinguacousy, east–west roads were historically called either concessions or sideroads, while north–south roads were called lines. North–south roads were surveyed from Hurontario Street as the meridian. Toronto Gore Township used a different naming convention, with the concession road designation being used for north–south roads as well. The grid is rectangular, with the historic north–south roads spaced at 3 km intervals, and east–west roads at 1.4 km intervals. Most of the original major north–south roads run fully through the city and continue into Mississauga and Caledon, with a few exceptions, mainly in the east end, where three either spur off from Peel Road 50 which runs slightly offset from the grid and forms the eastern boundary of the city, or are truncated at the Claireville Conservation Area.Designation and address numbering system
East–west roads are designated with "East" and "West" segments on either side of Main and Hurontario Streets. The designation of north–south roads into North and South segments by Queen Street, is more complicated, with the unusual situation in which only the portions of those between McLaughlin Road and Highway 410 are designated as such. To complicate matters further, even for the roads which are divided, the designation only applies between Steeles Avenue and Bovaird Drive: For example, Kennedy Road South only extends to Steeles with its address numbers resetting from a southward increase beginning at Queen, to numbers descending to follow the numbering sequence starting in Mississauga after the street crosses Steeles, and becomes simply Kennedy Road Likewise Kennedy Road North only runs to Bovaird, with the northward numbers jumping into the 10,000s as the street again reverts to just being Kennedy Road This is a legacy of the city's original numbering plan prior to it being enlarged after being amalgamated with the surrounding townships in 1974.An anomaly in the numbering system outside the north–south numbering area is Bramalea Road, which also has numbers ascending from Mississauga south of Steeles, but resetting to "1" north of it to Queen Street, where the numbers return to the standard sequence in the 9000s.
East–west roads
South of Queen
Steeles Avenue
Steeles Avenue is the southernmost arterial in Brampton and runs across the entire city, and is designated as Peel Road 15. It begins in Milton in the west and continues to Vaughan and Toronto in the east, where it forms the boundary of Toronto and York Region. Historically, it was also the southern boundary of the Town of Brampton and the Townships of Chinguacousy and Toronto Gore, and the northern boundary of Toronto Township until the municipal restructuring of 1974 brought it fully within Brampton when the new city limits were set to the south at the-then future Highway 407 corridor and the Canadian National Halton Subdivision. This resulted in the community of Churchville becoming part of Brampton. Before 1967, it was known as the ''Upper Base Line''Clark Boulevard
Clark Boulevard is a sinuous road that runs east from Rutherford Road and continues east to Airport Road, where it ends at the entrance to Canadian National's Brampton Intermodal Terminal. As of 2021, there are plans to extend the street west to Kennedy Road by incorporating a section of Eastern Avenue.Embleton Road
Embleton Road is a short and still-rural two-lane road running east from Winston Churchill Boulevard as a continuation of Fifth Sideroad in Halton Hills, and ends at the Credit River at Mississauga Road in the historic community of Huttonville. It, as well as most of Queen Street and [|Ebenezer Road] in the extreme east of the city, which continues its concession road baseline, were also part of the Fifth Sideroad.Queen Street
Queen Street runs from Mississauga Road east to Peel Regional Road 50 and is Brampton's main east–west street with the city's downtown being located at its intersection with Main Street. The street was designated as Highway 7 until 1997 from Highway 410 easterly. Prior to the numbering of the 410 in 1982, it carried the Highway 7 designation as far west as Main Street north to Bovaird. After the mass provincial highway downloadings of the late 1990s, the Highway 7 designation along both Queen and Bovaird was replaced with the present Peel Road 107 for continuity, with the westernmost portion of the street later being designated as Peel Road 6 west of McMurchy Avenue. This former status as Highway 7 was a factor in making the street one of Brampton's busiest roads, as its importance as an arterial relative to parallel streets diminishes west of Main Street due to it being truncated at the Credit River.North of Queen
Williams Parkway
Williams Parkway is a modern road built in stages beginning in 1970s, beginning in Bramalea and was extended in stages over the next several decades west to Mississauga Road. It was slated be widened to six lanes between North Park Drive and McLaughlin Road in 2020, but the project was shelved after the David Suzuki Foundation, a prominent Canadian environmental group, lobbied for its cancellation, although construction of replacement noise walls and tree-clearing for the road widening were already completed.Cottrelle Boulevard
Cottrelle Boulevard is a modern road constructed in the 1990s and runs from Airport Road east to Highway 50. As of March 2024, two bridges to cross the river valley are under construction to join the two sections, after several years of delays due to opposition by environmentalists, who successfully stopped an earlier plan to bridge Williams Parkway further south.Bovaird Drive
Bovaird Drive runs from the western city limits, where it continues from Highway 7 coming from Georgetown, east to Airport Road, where it continues as Castlemore Road. Bovaird, along with Queen Street, was once designated as Highway 7, following Main Street and later Highway 410 to Queen Street before being downloaded and redesignated as regional roads as described in the section of the latter street. Before the downloading the road only bore the name east of Main and Hurontario Streets, and thus was not divided into east–west sections.Bovaird is still only two lanes wide as it runs through the still-rural west end of the city, widens to four lanes at Mississauga Road, then expands again to six east of the overpass over the CN Halton Subdivision until Airport Road