[PL1]

Current state of the north stairs/graded trail entrance ("construction between July and December 2020") and the south stairs mentioned earlier.
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Sometimes since Friday, they have painted the new (unopened!) bike path and in the past few months paved the graded trail from Eglinton. The stairs remain unopened, with the construction staging site for the TE Seton/TRCA river works blocking the bottom anyway. Photos from today.

They added the tactile metal strip a couple of weeks back. Painted crossing on the main park road just north of Eglinton.

Junction of graded path, stairs (north side of Eglinton) and new bike path. This is just south of the first photo.

Dashed lane separation on the new bike path under the bridge. The path is still fenced off . I know, it's part of the Crosstown project. But it's so crushingly disappointing that nothing can be used until it's all done.

 

[Natika33]

Where the clear cutting happened:

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Junction of graded path, stairs (north side of Eglinton) and new bike path. This is just south of the first photo.

...currently, it's all been fully fenced off. /sigh

 

[CityRider]

I rode up the Don trail yesterday and checking on google maps saw that the photo of these steps from June 2021 of them fenced off must mean they'd be open by now and I'd be able to carry the bicycle up to Eglinton. How wrong I was!
Had to ride around to the other side of Eglinton via the underpass and go up the north ramp and cross over. Only took an extra couple minutes, but pretty sad/funny.

Current state of the north stairs/graded trail entrance ("construction between July and December 2020") and the south stairs mentioned earlier.View attachment 498504

 

[PL1]

I rode up the Don trail yesterday and checking on google maps saw that the photo of these steps from June 2021 of them fenced off must mean they'd be open by now and I'd be able to carry the bicycle up to Eglinton. How wrong I was!
Had to ride around to the other side of Eglinton via the underpass and go up the north ramp and cross over. Only took an extra couple minutes, but pretty sad/funny.

I suspect you won't see those stairs open until the Crosstown/Line 5 opens. Yeah, it's nuts!

I should stop to take some photos of the completed streamed rehabilitation just south of the parking lot. They also reopened the trail that stays on the north side of the river sometime in the last week or two.