Retail and Transportation
Downtown Toronto is home to the flagship department stores of The Bay and Sears Canada (formerly Eaton's). The Toronto Eaton Centre is a large, multilevel enclosed shopping mall and office complex. It houses 330 stores and the building itself occupies several blocks.
The most famous and busiest road in Toronto is Yonge Street, which starts at the end of Lake Ontario and runs through downtown, continuing north all the way to the city of Barrie, Ontario. Other streets like Dundas, Bloor, Queen, King, and University are very popular also. The Toronto Transit Commission is the Toronto area's public transportation system. Nearby airports include Toronto City Centre Airport which is adjacent to downtown and the much larger Toronto Pearson International Airport located 27 km to the northwest.
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