I'll report back in a few hours as to what I see there now....and what trails have been beaten around the obstruction.
OK, outrage and disgust fully called for. It's a road renewal, nothing more, nothing less, albeit the fence blurb paints it in wondrous language. Many, many people severely pizzed off. In fact, we formed a bit of a mob that kept growing. *Everyone* we asked was taken aback and surprised about this. And one poor lady with kids was in tears wondering how to get through with the baby buggy, we all helped her. There was no way even on the detour she could have pushed it up the last stretch. WTF? What does it take to run City Parks? An unfertilized cow turd for a brain?
The City does have a detour listed on the 'blockade fence' and it's to take the steps down next to the Humber Bridge. How in hell is a mother with a buggy or someone with a disability supposed to do that after struggling all the way along there from from much further down?
Closed until end of June. So they claim.
I've just checked the City Parks website, absolutely no mention of this.
http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=55d9dada600f0410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD
The mob grew to about twenty people at one point, all fuming over this, albeit it was meet and greet all the way around, so not all a negative event by any means. We discussed calling councillors, but I put the kibosh on that, I know the routine far too well. It gets nowhere. The best plan is to inundate City Parks itself with complaints, and of course, casually mention that the press will be alerted to it too. Which they will.
And I don't want some front desk puppet set up to take the flak. I want to speak to the person in charge. Or supposedly in charge, but out to lunch.
Btw: The new trail is being burned in, and apologies to the Old Mill rescinded, it's City property getting trampled. Live by the broken sword, get defiled by the broken sword...