Why Is Dundas Street So Weird?

This is the kind of surprisingly informative video you would have seen between programs on TVO back in the day. Hope you can keep making them!

Lived on Dundas & Spadina for 6 years, always found it weird how bendy this street is. Thanks for answering my lingering questions lol

Im so happy the algorythm blessed this video and showed me this channel

Great Video! Only 2 things to add. 1. Dundas and Bloor are the only 2 streets in Toronto to intersect each other twice (Around Bloor, Dundas and Kipling area and right on TTC's Dundas West Station). 2. As of 2019, the overpass at Dundas and Kipling has been demolished and Dundas was rerouted. Dundas now intersects at Kipling and curves northward east of Kipling into Bloor St W Intersection.

I really like that a random Kei truck drove past you on old dundas for a moment. It was so out of place to see something like that show up. In all seriousness, this was a really informative video!

Love the "links in usual places". Allows me to really get context into what you say. Keep up the excellent work.

THAT WAS GREAT!!!! Thanks from an old guy who grew up in T.O. and knows Dundas very well from one end to the other, including the straight parts west of Six Points. Very informative, and now at last it all makes sense!

I remember being told as a kid on a tour at Fort York that Dundas curves upwards to the West so that it would be out of canon range from ships on the lake.

I love seeing this type of content about Toronto! Keep it up Steve 😃

I lived on Dundas at Highpark and worked in the Junction there for a good few years. Dundas is a great street with so much variation in community from end to end. Great vid. I'll be back.

What a gem of a channel, thank you for putting these togather!

There's a bar called Bathurst Local right by the Alexandra Park jog and it has an antique map hanging up showing Dundas in all its pre-realignment glory, along with all the other road network oddities that have gotten ironed out over the years. Lovely thing to look at while having a drink. Would love to see a video exploring how Toronto's street grid came to feature so many absurd jogs and misalignments at every arterial. (Lansdowne/Jameson is the stuff of nightmares, and that's just scratching the surface...) I've always assumed it had to be due to the way the land was parceled out along division roads and developed lot by lot with no cohesive urban plan, and the historical maps I've seen more or less confirm this, but I've never gotten in the weeds enough to learn the full history, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

On parts of Dundas east of Boulton you can see the houses that used to be on Whitby avenue and are now on Dundas sitting above the grade of the street with the old sidewalk that goes off at an angle from the street. And farther east there are a bunch of garages that face Dundas because it goes down the line of what was once a back alley.

thank you for including more maps, it makes it so much easier to follow along. you’re videos are becoming more and more enjoyable. i can’t wait for the next ones!!

I didn't even know about Old Dundas. super cool.

Great content and good, straight forward delivery. This is what a longer episode of 'Structures' would have been like. Thanks again for your work, have a good day.

Your content quality has improved drastically! Always happy to see one of your videos

Very well put together video. Thanks for sharing!

Just subscribed! I love how informative and detailed the video is! Great job!

As someone who lives in the town of Dundas, I found this very interesting. In particular, the part about the street being stitched together was something that I didn't know. This does seem to be a theme that I noticed when driving to London. The road is frequently named Dundas street but often switches to another name for part of the route.