Dixie Road (Peel Region)

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Dixie Road
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Peel Regional Road 4
Veterans Memorial Roadway
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Aerial view of Dixie Road, looking north from near Burnhamthorpe Road
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Route of Dixie Road (solid blue line). Also shown is the continuation of the Veterans Memorial Roadway designation along Horseshoe Hills Road (dotted blue line).
Maintained by Region of Peel
Location Mississauga, Brampton, Caledon
North endOlde Base Line Road
in Caledon (Continues as Horseshoe Hill Road)
Major
junctions
South end Lakeshore Road in Mississauga
Nearby arterial roads
  Cawthra Road; Highway 410; Highway 10;Dixie Road Airport Road;
 

Dixie Road is a major north-south thoroughfare in the Regional Municipality of Peel in Ontario, Canada, passing through the lower-tier cities of Mississauga and Brampton, and the rural Town of Caledon. It is the third concession road east of Hurontario Street, and before being named was concession-numbered as 3rd Line East. [1] It is designated and signposted as Peel Regional Road 4 [2] in the regional road system. Despite already being named it has also been designated as Veterans Memorial Roadway (which extends along its continuation, Horseshoe Hill Road) since 2016. [3]

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Name

Dixie Road is named for the former rural hamlet of Dixie at Cawthra Road and Dundas Street in Mississauga, 2 km to the west of the street along Dundas. The hamlet was named for Dr. Beaumont Dixie, a settler who paid for the establishment of the Union Chapel, a multi-denominational Protestant church in the village. [4]

Route description

South of Dundas Street East, Dixie Road dips beneath a railway bridge carrying the GO Transit Milton line Dixie Road N of Tracks.jpg
South of Dundas Street East, Dixie Road dips beneath a railway bridge carrying the GO Transit Milton line

Dixie begins at Lakeshore Road in southeast Mississauga at Lake Ontario in the Lakeview neighbourhood, just west of the Etobicoke Creek near the Toronto city limits. A short distance north of Lakeshore, it dips under GO Transit's Lakeshore West Line tracks. It then interchanges with the Queen Elizabeth Way and passes through the Applewood (where it passes under the Canadian Pacific Kansas City tracks which host GO Transit's Milton line trains, with Dixie GO station a short distance southeast of the Dundas Street) intersection) and Rockwood Village neighbourhoods. At Eastgate Parkway, a road running through a hydro corridor, it crosses the Mississauga Transitway, an east-west bus rapid transit line also running through the corridor, with a station at Dixie. It then enters a major industrialized zone with heavy truck traffic and is often congested as a result. [5] In the centre of this industrial district, it interchanges with Highway 401. Some distance north of that freeway the industrial development thins out as Dixie passes the western outfield of Toronto Pearson International Airport and the end of Runway 05. North of Derry Road, it crosses through another hydro corridor and enters Brampton.

It ends at Olde Base Line Road, in Caledon where it becomes Horseshoe Hill Road. [5]

Public transit

Dixie Road is served by two bus routes in Mississauga and Brampton. Both cities operate separate systems; MiWay in Mississauga and Brampton Transit in Brampton. MiWay's Route #5 Dixie's southern terminus is at Long Branch Loop in Toronto, where it makes connections with GO Transit commuter trains and even the city's streetcar system, which otherwise is limited to areas closer to its downtown. Brampton Transit's Route #18 Dixie travels into Mississauga as far south as Meyerside Drive, and also has limited service extending a short distance north into Caledon.

The trunk routes serving the street are:

Mississauga (MiWay):

RouteDirection and Termini
5
Dixie [6] NBTo Lorimar Dr./Cardiff Blvd. (Derry Road)
via Mid-way Blvd.
SB Long Branch GO station (Long Branch Loop)
via Ogden Ave.

Brampton (Brampton Transit):

RouteDirection and Termini
18
Dixie [7] NBTo Mayfield Road
(Limited service extends to UPS warehouse in Caledon)
SBTo Meyerside Drive

Landmarks

Sites along Dixie Road include:

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References

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