(note: for fun, compare to 2008)
From Billy Bishop Airport:
The Royal York and some new stuff:
Kensington Market:
View from the room. Hypertrophic new development. Le Corbusier would probably approve
Although, there is some street-level stuff, tucked away.
The Gardiner Expressway was shut down for the weekend, for maintenance. Good thing too, it turns out to be damn noisy, all the frickin time.
GO Transit / VIA share the huge rail corridor to the north:
Corbusian development comes with obligatory anti-pedestrian attitudes:
The Rocket:
Look ma, open gangways:
The Annex:
Not an uncommon style:
Neat placement of fire hydrant. The protest sign is against having jets land at Billy Bishop.
Bloor Street:
Albany Ave:
Checking out a famous site:
Apparently it was also Jane Jacobs week, which I didn't realize until after I got there.
Further down Bloor St is the 'Marvish Village':
And suddenly 'Korea town':
End of the Bathurst streetcar:
Did I mention that bikes are popular in Toronto?
So are these signs:
Buffered bike lane:
"The city didn't buy labels":
So, apparently I wandered into the Queen's Park right around 4:20 pm:
Mixing zone for bus passengers and bikes -- not good design I discovered:
Curb-separated bike lane:
Intersection design, kinda meh:
More, older Corbusian architecture:
Sherbourne was the only 'listed' cycle track but as you can see there's lots of different protection mechanisms employed even on 'regular' bike lanes:
Sherbourne:
It's not all buildings:
Typical construction scene:
'Distillery District':
These kinds of signs are quite commonly found:
Oh yeah, it was the Marathon Sunday:
Interactive statue:
[St Lawrence] Market Street:
Assorted scenes:
Now we're talking:
Old Fort York or something:
Nice street art:
Tried to capture the busiest part of the morning rush hour traffic here, but I think at least two of those trains are simply being parked there. Kind of a waste of a huge, huge corridor. I hear GO Transit is trying to upgrade heavily, electrify, do major off-peak service. I sure hope so, seemed quite desolate at most times:
From Billy Bishop Airport:
The Royal York and some new stuff:
Kensington Market:
View from the room. Hypertrophic new development. Le Corbusier would probably approve
Although, there is some street-level stuff, tucked away.
The Gardiner Expressway was shut down for the weekend, for maintenance. Good thing too, it turns out to be damn noisy, all the frickin time.
GO Transit / VIA share the huge rail corridor to the north:
Corbusian development comes with obligatory anti-pedestrian attitudes:
The Rocket:
Look ma, open gangways:
The Annex:
Not an uncommon style:
Neat placement of fire hydrant. The protest sign is against having jets land at Billy Bishop.
Bloor Street:
Albany Ave:
Checking out a famous site:
Apparently it was also Jane Jacobs week, which I didn't realize until after I got there.
Further down Bloor St is the 'Marvish Village':
And suddenly 'Korea town':
End of the Bathurst streetcar:
Did I mention that bikes are popular in Toronto?
So are these signs:
Buffered bike lane:
"The city didn't buy labels":
So, apparently I wandered into the Queen's Park right around 4:20 pm:
Mixing zone for bus passengers and bikes -- not good design I discovered:
Curb-separated bike lane:
Intersection design, kinda meh:
More, older Corbusian architecture:
Sherbourne was the only 'listed' cycle track but as you can see there's lots of different protection mechanisms employed even on 'regular' bike lanes:
Sherbourne:
It's not all buildings:
Typical construction scene:
'Distillery District':
These kinds of signs are quite commonly found:
Oh yeah, it was the Marathon Sunday:
Interactive statue:
[St Lawrence] Market Street:
Assorted scenes:
Now we're talking:
Old Fort York or something:
Nice street art:
Tried to capture the busiest part of the morning rush hour traffic here, but I think at least two of those trains are simply being parked there. Kind of a waste of a huge, huge corridor. I hear GO Transit is trying to upgrade heavily, electrify, do major off-peak service. I sure hope so, seemed quite desolate at most times:
