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If the new Ontario Place justified transit access, a streetcars extension from Exhibition to Ontario place would make sense. You could build it at the same time as the extension to Dufferin.
These guys must be desperate that they're nit-picking this. quite sad innit
Do that through much of the CNE too. In fact, connect the CNE and Ontario Place with one continuous park and have cycling connections to the Bentway and future Rail Deck Park. Much of the CNE is a surface parking lot with temporary and scattered use. The Ex carnie stuff can still come every year but sit on grass instead of asphalt. Parking should go underground. There’s a good opportunity to build this at the same time as the Ontario Line station, especially if we want to encourage park ‘n’ ride as people enter the city core. Metrolinx has much experience building multi-level parking.
They built a 850 vehicle garage under the Enercare Centre. But spend money on improving public transit, we have to go through decades of meetings, meetings, and more meetings, only to start the process all over again.
Agreed. I know debate is raging over plans for Ontario Place. I just hope the city and province are talking to each other because the CNE needs life injected into it as well. It should be a year-round destination with 24-hour functions, not just a stadium, conference centre, and occasional fairgrounds. I know the purists were all about keeping condos away from Ontario Place, but it would be great to see a small neighborhood run through the grounds from Liberty Village to Ontario Place to integrate the CNE with the city. It feels like an island that you have to pass through a no-man’s-land to reach, especially in winter.
Isn't the terminus technically Liberty Village? How's it going to be a dead zone?
