Streetscapes

[Patrick Smyth]

I see so many locations in dire need of public realm improvement but so little being done. This city's "Planning Department" needs a shot of enthusiasm for good planning.

 

[EVCco]

^ speaking of which, the shortened nature of my latest Urban Wilderness trek around the port lands afforded me the opportunity to explore the underbelly of the always controversial Gardiner a little more thoroughly.

Here's a brief tour from its current beginnings (or endings), just west of Booth Ave, to just past Spadina:

 

[Goldie]

Thanks, EVCco.
Those are great out-of-the-way scenes that most of us would never see without your sense for adventure.

 

[EVCco]

Thank you Goldie! - Makes trudging through the 50 years of accumulated pigeon droppings under there worth it!

 

[EVCco]

The second half of my sub-expressway expedition; from Spadina to just east of Dufferin, where the Gardiner descends back to street-level:

For those who've wondered where they keep all the midway stuff for the Exhibition, it's right here, under the Frederick G! (well, some of it anyway):

 

[EVCco]

Colborne Lodge Drive / Twyn Rivers Drive:

Carlaw Avenue / Grange Avenue:

Carlaw & Gerrard / Norwood & Main:

York Mills Road / Mortimer Ave:

 

[kram74]

wow..... well done.... i could look at those pictures for hours.... i always like seeing pictures of the city... looks like you got a ton of them.... great pictures over all.... this gives you a true sense of a city, not just postcards pics.....

 

[EVCco]

Thanks kram!

 

[EVCco]

Edenbridge Drive / MacLennan Avenue

Copperfield Road / Zoo Road

Craven Road / Ellesmere Road

Woodbine Avenue / Dawes Road

Grapevine Circle / Third Street

Lakeshore Avenue / Ojibway Avenue

Manse Road / Oasis Boulevard

 

[EVCco]

404/DVP - overpass overview

In contrasting compliment of my earlier exploration of the Gardiner's underside (as seen above), here's a survey of Toronto's main north-south thoroughfare - the Highway 404 / Don Valley Parkway corridor - viewed from atop each overpassing street in the city (as follows below...)

Steeles Ave East:

McNicoll Ave:

Finch Ave East:

Van Horne Ave:

Sheppard Ave East:

Lawrence Ave East:

Wynford Drive:

Spanbridge Road:

Don Mills Road:

Leaside Bridge:

Bayview Interchange:

Prince Edward Viaduct:

Riverdale Pedestrian Bridge:

Gerrard Street East:

Dundas Street East:

Queen Street East:

Eastern Ave:

 

[EVCco]

Highway 401 - over half a million served

More overpass impressions; this time of the city's main artery which obliges upwards of 500,000 commuters per day - the former MacDonald-Cartier Freeway, Ontario Highway 401. Heading from east to west, starting at Sheppard Avenue:

Meadowvale Road:

Conlins Road:

Morningside Ave:

Neilson Road:

Progress Ave:

McCowan Road:

Brimley Road:

Warden Ave:

Victoria Park Ave:

Don Mills Road:

Leslie Street:

Hogg's Hollow Bridge:

Avenue Road:

Keele Street:

Weston Road:

Islington Ave:

Kipling Ave:

Highway 427:

Renforth Drive:

 

[EVCco]

Some scenes towards a new page...

 

[EVCco]

 

[EVCco]

 

[EVCco]