The Big Smoke

[golodhendil]

Smoggy aerial shots from 04/09 and 08/09.

04/09: stopover in Toronto en route to Victoria

Humber River bridge

Condos around Bayview Village

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08/09, flight home for vacation

NYCC

Yonge-Eglinton and downtown

(link to set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/golodhendil/sets/72157622146571500/)

 

[Redroom Studios]

great views... too bad the weather conditions werent more cooperative with clear skies. Thanks for posting!

 

[Long Island Mike]

You mean The Big Haze!

Go: Good aerial pics here - it looks to me that it was a hot,hazy Summer day
- the type thought about in the 60s era song by The Lovin' Spoonful
"Summer In The City" but they still look good! LI MIKE

 

[kitestate]

thanks for sharing-always love these fly over views..

i especially took note of the relative absence of highways/major thoroughfares crossing through the city in your pics. i think after a visit to calgary and its endless us-style intra-city ring roads/highways a few weeks ago, i am particularly attuned to that part of what toronto does not have!

 

[Conrad Black]

We did some things correctly and the lack of highways is one of them.

 

[golodhendil]

Thanks everyone! I personally wouldn't want to see a US-style highway network in Toronto but I do believe there has been positive and negative effects of the no-expressway policy. But I don't want this thread turned into another pro/anti-car brawl!

 

[Translude15]

Wow! Thanks for those shots golodhendil. Toronto is indeed quite a beautiful place. I cannot wait to see both Trump Tower's and Shangri La's impact on our skyline from that vantage point.

And yes, Toronto may not have a US-style freeway system, but the freeways we do have are quite a ways busier and larger than most US cities.

 

[syn]

Great pics. The AGO really pops out.

 

[Uncle Teddy]

What impresses me is the size of the NYCC skyline.