Billion Dollar Park
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Funny most of you seem to have missed the entire section 37 funds comments
Basically they plan to let condo developers violate the city bylaws so long as they kick in bribe/slush money for this park
Edit - I also find it incredibly amusing to view the overhead pictures which show this "needed" park would end up being between 2 large existing greenspaces lol
Basically they plan to let condo developers violate the city bylaws so long as they kick in bribe/slush money for this park
Edit - I also find it incredibly amusing to view the overhead pictures which show this "needed" park would end up being between 2 large existing greenspaces lol
They do have money to provide to "friends of the government" to do a study though...
There is a huge network of trails or parks called Don Valley Trails https://www.google.ca/search?ie=UTF...=-LncV62xCJTBqAXco5ioBg#fpstate=lie&gfe_rd=cr.
It's good for mountain biking, walking, running and ect. It's 10 min away from Yonge and Bloor. Huge place and would accommodate all of those people that are looking for some nature. I have seen many deer, rabbits, fox and other animals in there.
It's good for mountain biking, walking, running and ect. It's 10 min away from Yonge and Bloor. Huge place and would accommodate all of those people that are looking for some nature. I have seen many deer, rabbits, fox and other animals in there.
Even though I left Toronto, I'm still 100% in for this idea. Fuck - make it even bigger if possible. If done right, this will be an absolute monument for future generations of GTA kids and future visitors.
Fuck the cost, we waste billions on shit that never materializes. This park decision should be independent from all other City/Province run nightmares. Lack of care and forethought in planning is what holds Toronto and all the surrounding areas back.
Toronto should be the hub and all the GTA cities should have quick access to the hub. This park can serve everyone and we should all be for it.
Fuck the cost, we waste billions on shit that never materializes. This park decision should be independent from all other City/Province run nightmares. Lack of care and forethought in planning is what holds Toronto and all the surrounding areas back.
Toronto should be the hub and all the GTA cities should have quick access to the hub. This park can serve everyone and we should all be for it.
It's not an obstacle. It's been done successfully in Chicago and is a huge money maker there.
It would be a huge magnet for tourists, cover the rail lines which is an eyesore, give families living in City Place a backyard to enjoy, and give therapy for the working stiffs in the core.
The next generation will have to spend millions of dollars on maintanace of this park just like the Gardiner. This park will attract more people=more traffic and Toronto is not ready for more traffic. First need to improve public transit and highways. The traffic in Toronto is only getting worse and worse. I love parks and nature but there are plant of parks around.
And today, we are spending millions of dollars on maintaining High Park, Centennial Park and many others that were built out decades ago. Anything we build has to be maintained.
Except we're not talking about the Yonge / Bloor area. The proposed park would be above the railway lands between Bathurst and Blue Jays Way.
Another interesting idea floated a while ago moves the Gardiner above the railway lands and then puts a park on top of that.
http://www.metronews.ca/news/toronto/2015/09/23/city-receives-proposals-for-a-greener-gardiner.html
http://www.metronews.ca/news/toronto/2015/09/23/city-receives-proposals-for-a-greener-gardiner.html
I meant to say that we have a huge park area less then 10 min away from D.T Toronto
I think the idea is to build a park within walking distance of the buildings along the Front Street area. Many of those people choose not to own a car. The Don Valley is definitely not walking distance
eh? If the gardiner is an obstacle between the downtown and the lake, the railway tracks certainly are too. Look south from the downtown streets - the first thing you see is railway tracks to cross over or under, not the Gardiner. We are so used to it that it does not register.
Unless you are saying bury them all too. I would question the huge cost of that, and what it does to Union.
2 things:
1. The estimated cost will skyrocket as the plan becomes more detailed.
2. it's so obvious: put a hotel/casino in the park, have them pay several hundred million towards park construction and still charge annual rental fee. BAM - DONE!
Next problem?
1. The estimated cost will skyrocket as the plan becomes more detailed.
2. it's so obvious: put a hotel/casino in the park, have them pay several hundred million towards park construction and still charge annual rental fee. BAM - DONE!
Next problem?
Good luck with that.
How do you propose to hold up the new Gardiner? You can't put columns between the tracks since the tracks are built as closely together so as to just avoid trains smashing into one another. There are 16 tracks coming out of Union Station. Each track is about 14 feet centre to centre. How are you proposing to span 16 x 14' = 224'
Check out the piers that support the Gardiner now. There are columns every 20 feet or so.
Never mind the billions of dollars (seriously) of buried railway signal infrastructure.
Cheaper to build a Gardiner Expressway tunnel under the lake.
Gardiner is fugly.Good luck with that.
How do you propose to hold up the new Gardiner? You can't put columns between the tracks since the tracks are built as closely together so as to just avoid trains smashing into one another. There are 16 tracks coming out of Union Station. Each track is about 14 feet centre to centre. How are you proposing to span 16 x 14' = 224'
Check out the piers that support the Gardiner now. There are columns every 20 feet or so.
Never mind the billions of dollars (seriously) of buried railway signal infrastructure.
Cheaper to build a Gardiner Expressway tunnel under the lake.
It's a scar on the city.
This is what your waterfront should look like:
Looking at the picture its fucking mostly grass, trees, and some pavillions, why would this cost a billion dollars? What am I missing?
if they say 1 its going to end up costing 2.5 billion. also they may as well build it, theyll just end up blowing it on a failed power plant deal or something and we wont see any of it. at least like this we'll have something to see for it.
