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Northern Light · Dec 9, 2023

Parkdalian said:
No one told me that the new park at KQQR was going to have a water feature!

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I don't know if there's a clogged drain in that area; or none at all (in which case the sidewalk grading is wrong). But look at the mess of dirty tire prints, everywhere........... power wash your mess people.

SubHuman · Jun 22, 2025

Parkdalian said:
No one told me that the new park at KQQR was going to have a water feature!

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Northern Light said:
I don't know if there's a clogged drain in that area; or none at all (in which case the sidewalk grading is wrong). But look at the mess of dirty tire prints, everywhere........... power wash your mess people.

The near permanent (at least after every rainfall) partly indoor dirty water feature continues indefinitely on the stairway leading up to the Queensway/Parkside Dr 501 streetcar stop. Not that I actually used the stop. You have to step into it to get up to either side.

This thing is so strange and revolting that I can't understand what's going on. Unclog the drainage and clean the place up, or just shut it down and board it off if they're not going to maintain it.

Monarch Butterfly · Jun 22, 2025

Before they built "The Queensway" streetcars did not go any further than Sunnyside Avenue. The Long Branch streetcars used Lake Shore Blvd. instead to get to and past the Humber River.

Indian Road used to end at a fork in the road with Parkside Drive, where the Parkside Drive overpass is today. Queen Street ended at Parkside Drive, with no streetcars on it. There was a Parkside Loop, which served the Sunnyside Swimming Pool (completed in 1925).

Ariel view from 1947, from https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/accountability-operations-customer-service/access-city-information-or-records/city-of-toronto-archives/whats-online/maps/aerial-photographs/aerial-photographs-1947/