allengeorge
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I wonder if it’s being funded out of the Federal Active Transportation money announced just before the election.
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Scarborough Waterfront Project (?, ?, TRCA)
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Northern Light
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A couple of updates from the Capital Budget process:
Superficially, the construction remains entirely unfunded, but money is in place to finish up detailed design and to begin moving the EA process forward for the Bluffers to R.C. Harris link.
Superficially, the construction remains entirely unfunded, but money is in place to finish up detailed design and to begin moving the EA process forward for the Bluffers to R.C. Harris link.
Northern Light
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Some new renders for this project, and a survey.
getinvolvedtrca.ca
From the above:
Brimley Road Access Trail:
Waterfront:
Survey Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8fjE3vCJY-2-COXU_uQnhEnZA9bvSTfL7JegLDl5akigSSw/viewform
Project Overview – Scarborough Waterfront Project
getinvolvedtrca.ca
From the above:
Brimley Road Access Trail:
Waterfront:
Survey Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8fjE3vCJY-2-COXU_uQnhEnZA9bvSTfL7JegLDl5akigSSw/viewform
Metroscapes
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Really excited to see a formal start to this!
If you haven't been to the bottom of the bluffs in this area, check out this walk I did from a couple years ago.
metroscapes.ca
It's a beautiful stretch of the bluffs, stoked to see the first steps in making it more accessible.
If you haven't been to the bottom of the bluffs in this area, check out this walk I did from a couple years ago.
2021/08/02 – Lower West Bluffs and Ravines
Walking along the toe of the Scarborough Bluffs east of RC Harris Water Treatment Plant, and going up and down some small ravines around Bluffers Park.
metroscapes.ca
It's a beautiful stretch of the bluffs, stoked to see the first steps in making it more accessible.
innsertnamehere
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getting a waterfront trail extended all the way out to Durham Region would be most excellent.
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That's a great photo tour! Thanks.Really excited to see a formal start to this!
If you haven't been to the bottom of the bluffs in this area, check out this walk I did from a couple years ago.
2021/08/02 – Lower West Bluffs and Ravines
Walking along the toe of the Scarborough Bluffs east of RC Harris Water Treatment Plant, and going up and down some small ravines around Bluffers Park.
It's a beautiful stretch of the bluffs, stoked to see the first steps in making it more accessible.
Northern Light
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At the rate we're building......there's at least a 50/50 chance of it being complete for your 90th birthday!
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I must hope that Mr Here is significantly older than me!
Northern Light
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He is not!
@innsertnamehere is younger than me too; annoyingly he looks even younger than he is.......
Wouldn't surprise me if he still gets carded. LOL * ducks *
innsertnamehere
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LOL I’m not that young! Definitely don’t get carded any more.. Long way to go till my 90’s though too…
Northern Light
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I know you're older than ya look!
I remember asking another UT'er when I met you, whether you were still in school......and he was like 'nah, he was paroled a few years back'.
I assume you were mid 20s then; but you certainly could have passed for younger! (when was that, hmmm, six years ago, I suppose)
Its not next week, month, year or decade for @DSC either; he just likes to pretend he's older so people will give up their seat on the subway. LOL
Northern Light
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To get us back on track here, in the 2023 capital budget, the TRCA listed the entire Scarborough Waterfront Project under 'Capital Needs Constraints) ie. unfunded.
The only construction component that is funded is the new access path along Brimley Road.
Source: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2023/bu/bgrd/backgroundfile-231146.pdf
The only construction component that is funded is the new access path along Brimley Road.
Source: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2023/bu/bgrd/backgroundfile-231146.pdf
Metroscapes
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Sure, but an EA or other study is the first step towards securing funding, especially from other levels of government. It's a small but nonetheless forward step.
Northern Light
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While I don't disagree, the EA has been in place for the segment east of the Bluffs for awhile now; and dates have just slid year after year, much as with the WWELRT downtown.
I'm not a pessimist, LOL; I'm far too active trying to make Toronto a better place to allow that.
But a hint of realism does creep in from time to time.
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Northern Light
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The City is advancing this project at Government Management Ctte by way of a move to expropriate portions of several properties to allow for the new trail:
From the above:
From the above: