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If I am reading it right, it is interesting that they were planning a link through the new viaduct at Church Street. Something that is again in the cards with the Lower Yonge Precinct plan - coming to TEYCC on August 12.
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If I am reading it right, it is interesting that they were planning a link through the new viaduct at Church Street. Something that is again in the cards with the Lower Yonge Precinct plan - coming to TEYCC on August 12.
Indeed it would but the building is actually only partly garage - there is housing on the upper floors. Not clear whether the Lower Yonge plans will result in Church being 'punched through' (below the housing?) for a full road, a pedestrian/cycling pathway or ?? Something to watch for though! (Incidentally, the St Lawrence Community Improvement Plan suggested at least cladding the Church Street view terminus (the garage) - it REALLY is very ugly - and the parking lot on The Esplanade and Church does not help.)In a perfect world, DSC, the parking garage with the social housing units above it would be demolished and rebuilt to the west, reopening the Church Street view corridor....
1913 map of the proposed railway viaduct:
A comparative map to the 1913 one is this "1945 Toronto Terminals Railway: Toronto Viaduct - Plan of Trackage between Don Station & Bathurst Jct AS CONSTRUCTED"
It shows (more or less) the apex of railway construction across the foot of Toronto.
It's too bad they decided to raise the railways as opposed to lowering them (and building bridges over). It would be much easier to cap over the rails today and connect the city to the cut off waterfront if that were the case.