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The NIMBYs want you to think that but all Metrolinx is doing is cutting down a couple of trees along the rail corridor. They will actually be adding a small amount of park area to Jimmy Simpson:
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Even Gerrard Carlway will only see a rleatively small area taken, with the net park size being larger than prior to the line opening:
To be fair, it's a lot more than a couple of trees.
Virtually every tree you see lining the corridor in this image will be gone:
That's well over a hundred. The same is true on the other side of the corridor.
That's not opposition on my part to the project or a suggestion that the trade isn't a reasonable one; but let's not understate that it is a material alteration of the current landscape.