Happy Trails
What is missing, and what it would take

Wishful thinking

21 places where the trail network stops, doubles back, or sends you onto a road. Each one is somewhere a specific, buildable thing would fix a specific problem — a crossing, a deck, a light, a kilometre of path. Narrow them down by what they would cost and by how badly they are wanted, and the argument makes itself. The cheapest thing that would do the most good is always first.

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The Beltline

Missing crosswalk

The path crosses a road here and nothing on the road says so. Paint, a sign and a curb cut would do it.

CostLow PriorityHigh
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The Beltline

Old Park crossing

A busy street with no signal where the trail meets it. People cross anyway, in gaps in the traffic.

CostMedium PriorityMedium
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The Beltline

Moore crossing

The severed spur. Reconnecting it means a structure and land that nobody is currently selling.

CostHigh PriorityLow
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The Beltline

Proposed crossing

A proposal drawn on the built route itself, rather than out on a line of its own.

CostLow PriorityMedium
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The Beltline

The long bypass

A proposed line leaving the trail at 0.37 and rejoining it at 0.63 — the longest of the five.

CostHigh PriorityMedium
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The Beltline

The spur, first idea

On a spur that leaves the trail and simply stops — so its card arrives where the spur leaves.

CostMedium PriorityLow
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The Beltline

The loop, north side

On the proposed loop at the eastern end, which leaves at 0.76 and rejoins at 0.88.

CostMedium PriorityHigh
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The Beltline

Nonsense corner

A proposal on the built route, in the middle of the busiest stretch of the page.

CostLow PriorityLow
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The Beltline

The loop, east side

The far side of the eastern loop, two thirds of the way along it.

CostHigh PriorityMedium
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Etobicoke Creek

Eglinton gap

The trail stops and the road starts. A few hundred metres of path would carry it across.

CostMedium PriorityHigh
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West Humber

Albion Road

A four-lane road with no signal and no crossing. It is the most dangerous point on the West Humber.

CostMedium PriorityHigh
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Humber River

Rockcliffe gap

The rail corridor cuts the valley in two and there is no way under it. A tunnel, or a long way round.

CostHigh PriorityHigh
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Finch Corridor

Jane Street

A crossing that needs a signal. The corridor is straight and fast either side of it.

CostMedium PriorityLow
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Waterfront

Gardiner squeeze

Wall on one side, water on the other, and the busiest trail in the city pinched between them.

CostHigh PriorityHigh
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Lower Don

Half Mile Bridge

The bridge is already standing and already closed. It needs a deck and railings, and nothing else.

CostMedium PriorityHigh
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Upper Don

Sheppard gap

A kilometre of valley with no path in it. The trail picks up again on the far side.

CostHigh PriorityMedium
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Don Valley

Eglinton crossing

Four lanes and no signal

CostMedium PriorityHigh
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Upper Don Connection

Bayview gap

A road with no crossing

CostHigh PriorityHigh
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Taylor Creek

Dentonia gap

The path gives up at the road

CostLow PriorityMedium
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The Meadoway

Kennedy gap

Not built yet, and already funded — this one is coming whether or not anyone argues for it.

CostMedium PriorityLow
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Highland Creek

Highway 401

A dark, wet underpass that people avoid after dusk. Lighting would change what it is.

CostLow PriorityMedium
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