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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What is missing, and what it would take
Wishful thinking
45 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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CostLow
PriorityHigh
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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Etobicoke Creek
Dundas crossing
Six lanes and no signal for the trail
CostMedium
PriorityHigh
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Etobicoke Creek
Markland link
Two hundred metres would join the subdivision
CostLow
PriorityMedium
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West Humber
Steeles underpass
The trail stops at the curb and starts again after
CostHigh
PriorityHigh
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West Humber
Claireville link
A path around the reservoir, promised since 2009
CostMedium
PriorityLow
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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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Humber River
Weston bypass
The detour through the car park could be a bridge
CostHigh
PriorityMedium
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Humber River
Lambton stair
Thirty steps where a ramp would do
CostMedium
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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Finch Corridor
Keele crossing
A hydro corridor severed by four lanes
CostLow
PriorityHigh
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Finch Corridor
Bathurst gap
The corridor is there; the path is not
CostMedium
PriorityMedium
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Waterfront
Sunnyside pinch
Pedestrians, bikes and a beach in four metres
CostHigh
PriorityHigh
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Waterfront
Cherry Street link
The last unbuilt stretch of the eastern shore
CostMedium
PriorityHigh
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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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Lower Don
Brick Works ramp
The climb out of the valley is a car park
CostMedium
PriorityHigh
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Upper Don
Finch underpass
Where the valley meets the road
CostMedium
PriorityMedium
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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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Upper Don
Sheppard connect
The two halves of the valley, joined
CostHigh
PriorityMedium
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Upper Don Connection
Leslie crossing
A crossing nobody signed
CostLow
PriorityMedium
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Upper Don Connection
Bayview ramp
The last hundred metres are stairs
CostMedium
PriorityHigh
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Taylor Creek
Dawes Road gap
The path stops at the embankment
CostMedium
PriorityMedium
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Taylor Creek
Victoria Park link
Two ravines, one street apart
CostHigh
PriorityHigh
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The Meadoway
Kennedy crossing
Six lanes across the corridor
CostMedium
PriorityHigh
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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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The Meadoway
Brimley link
Where the hydro corridor is fenced
CostLow
PriorityMedium
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Highland Creek
Ellesmere gap
The creek goes under; the trail does not
CostHigh
PriorityHigh
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Highland Creek
Morningside link
A ravine connection, half built
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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Nothing matches both of those. and start again.