Dixie Road (Peel Region)

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. It is designated and signposted as Peel Regional Road 4 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.

Route description
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. 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.

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.

Landmarks
Sites along Dixie Road include:


 * Dixie GO Station
 * Dixie Outlet Mall
 * Toronto Pearson International Airport (Near end of Runway 05)
 * Ontario Khalsa Darbar
 * Bramalea City Centre