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mcbg1 said:
Doesn't look like something that's supposed to open this year...
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They DO have work to do but it is pretty much all above ground work so can move quite fast. I suspect that at least some areas will open in mid to late summer while others will stay fenced off until next spring to give new plantings time to take before being trampled over. We shall see!
 
...I always keep hearing the Love Boat theme every time I see pics of that somehow. >.<
 
UtakataNoAnnex said:
The thing is not all parks need parking lots to work. Even the ones that are out of the way...

...sure, some families may avoid this out of inconvenience. And same goes for those with mobility issues. However, I suspect this will be well visited regardless...as there will be likely a lot more folks visiting this, even those with families and mobility issues. In short, this will likely be a popular place to visit regardless. And it's not all that out of the way.
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High Park, for example, is massively better since they closed it to cars. If you leave the parking lots small (as they were), the park gets completely choked with cars circling around looking for a spot (which used to happen every weekend, but particularly at cherry blossom time), making it really unpleasant to get around on foot or bike (which most visitors always did).

And if you try to build enough parking lots so that everyone going to the park can find a parking spot, you don't have any park space left.

They should improve the TTC high park shuttle, though. It should be available year round to help people with kids and other mobility needs get from the subway to important points in the park. That should have been done when they implemented the car closure.
 
hawc said:
Exactly. We also never used to have modern dentistry. Progress!



This I agree with. We're at the corner of River and Gerrard. There's a River Street Bus that goes south to King. Then I guess we'd walk over to Cherry. And then take the Cherry streetcar to where it terminates at Distillery. Then I guess we'd all walk under the tracks across Lakeshore (hope we don't get killed by left or right turning trucks) and then I think there's a bus we'd pick up on the south side of lakeshore which I assume turns east to where the park is? I've lived in Toronto for 50 years and I'm still not entirely sure.

Oh wait, here we go, it's just an easy 35-45 minutes to get there. Buses come every 20 minutes. Perfect for a 4 and 6 year old. Who needs a car? :p

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Of course transit should be better, BUT.

Couldn't you take the River Bus to Front/Cherry, then walk down Cherry (about 1km, perhaps using a stroller) to the park? The Cherry/Lakeshore intersection has been redesigned to allow for safe crossings. If you really need to use a private vehicle, the best option might be to take a taxi, Uber, or Lyft. $7 each way -- sometimes even cheaper than transit.

I'm a car driver, but not every destination (in particular, one located downtown in a large city) needs to give up even an inch of valuable space to surface parking to cater to private vehicle owners. I find it odd that you call a perfectly normal bike "big and crazy", but then insist on using a 4,000+ lb. object that kills dozens of pedestrians in Toronto every year to move around. The expectation that cities should cater to cars is why our roads are so dangerous for other users.

Finally, not to sound unsympathetic, but you live near Riverdale Park West/East, Regent Park, Corktown Common, Greenwood Park, and Withrow Park (utterly fantastic local parks) which are very accessible until your kids are old enough to cycle or transit improves. It doesn't seem the lack of surface parking is a real problem.
 
Traffic is ALREADY a disaster here.

Who thought it would be a good idea for ONE lane in and out of here. This is Liberty Village disaster 2.0.
 
PWM said:
Traffic is ALREADY a disaster here.

Who thought it would be a good idea for ONE lane in and out of here. This is Liberty Village disaster 2.0.
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This is why driving here must be actively discouraged. Nobody should be allowed to get in the habit of driving here.

Once those expectations of easy car access are set, they are impossible to break.
 
xmyth_ said:
Also. Is this new? Cuz I don’t recall it being so visible before.
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Er..what is it we're supposed to be looking at? There are a few things in there I wasn't really paying attention to before.
 
UtakataNoAnnex said:
Er..what is it we're supposed to be looking at? There are a few things in there I wasn't really paying attention to before.
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The gigantic sign tower for Ports Toronto that looks like it was salvaged from Ontario Place. Few more feet and Billy Bishop would have to change flight paths*

(That was a joke ppl, I don’t need flight path restriction guidelines or city signage bylaws thx)
 
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