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( King Street (Toronto))
King Street is a major east-west commercial thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The street was named after King George III, the reigning British monarch at the time the street was being built in early Toronto (then called the Town of York). It runs from The Queensway, splitting off to the south-east at Queen Street West and Roncesvalles Avenue in the west, to the Don River where it ends at Queen St. in the east. Unofficially King Street crossed the Don at an abandoned steel and concrete bridge (see King Street Bridge (Toronto)). On the west side the roadway is now Eastern Avenue and Cypress Street. East of the Don, a short stretch begins as Sunlight Park Road and then as Eastern Avenue to Kingston Road. Yonge Street, the north-south divider of many Toronto east-west streets, divides King Street into King Street East and King Street West. King Street is also served along its entire length by the Toronto Transit Commission's 504 King streetcar, the busiest line in the fleet with an average of 50,000 passengers per day. It connects with the Yonge-University-Spadina subway line at St. Andrew Station at University Avenue, and at King Station at Yonge Street. It connects with the Bloor-Danforth subway line at Dundas West and Broadview stations. The street is also served by the 508 Lake Shore car.
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