Kudos to James for bringing to our attention that this thing about Yonge Street being the longest street in the world is a crock of shit. Yonge Street ends at the Holland Marsh and is only 56 km long; calling Highway 11 (as Yonge Street then was) Yonge Street and tacking on another 1,840 km is just as valid as adding about 2,200 km to Winnipeg’s Portage Avenue by extending it (as Highway 1) to Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia.