What is Black Creek Drive?

Black Creek Drive is a four lane north–south arterial road in the Canadian city of Toronto, which connects Weston Road and Humber Boulevard with Highway 401 via Highway 400, the latter of which it forms a southerly extension. Black Creek Drive officially transitions into Highway 400 at the Maple Leaf Drive overpass, southeast of Jane Street. The roadway is named after the Black Creek ravine, which it parallels for most of its route. It features a maximum speed limit of 70 km/h. As a municipal road, it is patrolled by the Toronto Police Service.

Originally intended to be a freeway extension of Highway 400, it was built instead as an arterial road with at-grade intersections by the provincial government. While Metropolitan Toronto and the province sought to extend Highway 400 south to the Gardiner Expressway, public opposition to building freeways into central Toronto resulted in the cancellation of a larger network of highways planned throughout the city.