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Ford tells Toronto cyclists to avoid major arterial roads
(globalnews.ca)
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Yonge Street was designated as such in the 1790s. Bloor is equally old. If you're expecting the modern traffic level and thoroughfare status to be reflected in a name given more than two centuries ago, I'd like to know exactly how your time machine works.
And anyway, as far as I've ever been able to tell, the difference between a street and a road is that a road was probably outside the municipal limits when named. Assuming that it didn't just get designated "road" because someone on the urban planning committee was tired of "street". There's no generally respected hard-and-fast rule for anything except "crescent", "highway", and "freeway".
I leave you with this video.
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