Sunday, January 11, 2015

More Dundas bike lane closures - your action please!

Action required ASAP - by Mon Jan 11, 2015.
RE: Construction Staging Area - 1220 Dundas Street East (just east of Carlaw)
B/c of condo construction work by Streetcar Developments, "Transportation Services is recommending that City Council approve the closure of the sidewalk and a bicycle lane on the north side of Dundas Street East, between a point 70.4 metres east of Carlaw Avenue and a point 125.2 metres east of Carlaw Avenue, from February 11, 2015 to December 31, 2015." 

A temporary pedestrian walkway would be created in the bicycle lane, and bicycle lane would be gone for rest of 2015!  We've already had bike lane closures for condo developments in this area through most of 2014.

Please go to Agenda Item for more details, and to submit comments/suggestions.

http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2015.TE3.42

Problems with the comments/suggestions button?  the button triggers a compose email pop up, copy and paste the below and send your feedback:

To: teycc@toronto.ca
Subject:  My comments for 2015.TE3.42 on January 13, 2015 Toronto and East York Community Council

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To the City Clerk:
Please add my comments to the agenda for the January 13, 2015 Toronto and East York Community Council meeting on item 2015.TE3.42, Construction Staging Area - 1220 Dundas Street East
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Monday, December 15, 2014

Ward30bikes group meeting - Tuesday Dec 16th 7pm

In our usual place:

South Riverdale Community Health Centre
955 Queen Street East, Toronto, ON M4M 3P3


See you then!

21 Don Roadway Walk-about - Leg #1: Railway Service Road


Leg #1
Railway Service Road

This is Leg #1 of a preliminary site walk of the perimeter of the 21 Don Roadway site.

All 10 Legs of this walk-about I did on Saturday, December 6, 2014, have a blog post that goes with it. A list of those blogs is below, or at the link (or on the map - click on the drop-down menu icon, top-left of the map):

Ward 30 Bikes | A Map: 21 Don Roadway Walk-about - December 6, 2014 | http://ward30bikes.blogspot.ca/2014/12/a-map-21-don-roadway-walk-about.html

On this Leg of the site walk-about I started at Eastern Avenue and the railway overpass (red line) and bicycled west to it's terminus at the Don Valley Parkway. On the way back I found a spot with no fencing (at about 130m from Eastern Ave and the rail overpass) and scrambled up the steep 3 metre high railway berm in order to see if I could get a good look at the 30 acre site from the north of it. 




At the western extent of the Railway Service Rd.


Looking northeast back along the route I had just come - with a GO Train speeding eastbound

Looking southwest at the DVP about 10m below, and an disused rail bridge across the Don River

Panorama Shots

Panorama 1 - looking south across the front of the Lever building

Panorama 2 - looking south at the north face of the Lever building

Panorama



Rail Berm Context Shots

Looking southwest across the rail service road, red brick structure is the southeast corner of the Lever Plant and behind it, a huge array of production line buildings stretching along the south perimeter of the property

Looking southeast - in the far distance - on the south side of the shipping channel on the Port Lands - you can see the decommissioned Richard L. Hearn Generating Station and it's high smokestack

Further east now you can see the fence between the Embridge Yards and the Transportation Yards (large white shed (left, upper-middle)

Lookinf directly east now - at the edge of the picture you can see the southern side of the turn of the century grand storage barns that front Eastern Avenue on the north side of the Transportation Services Yards



Railway Berm Panorama


Panorama 1

Panorama 2

Panorama 3

Panorama 4

Panoraama



List of Blog posts for each Leg of the walk-about:


Leg #1: 21 Don Roadway Walk-about - Leg #1: Railway Service Road | http://ward30bikes.blogspot.ca/2014/12/21-don-roadway-walk-about-leg-1-railway.html

Leg #2: 21 Don Roadway Walk-about - Leg #2: Radio Tower Service Road | http://ward30bikes.blogspot.com/2014/12/21-don-roadway-walk-about-leg-2-radio.html

Leg #3 and Leg #4: 21 Don Roadway Walk-about - Leg #3 & #4: Transportation Services Yard | http://ward30bikes.blogspot.ca/2014/12/21-don-roadway-walk-about-leg-3-4.html

Leg #5: 21 Don Roadway Walk-about - Leg #5: Booth Ave Google Bike Route | http://ward30bikes.blogspot.com/2014/12/21-don-roadway-walk-about-leg-5-booth.html

Leg #6: 21 Don Roadway Walk-about - Leg #6: CineSpace Lot |  http://ward30bikes.blogspot.ca/2014/12/21-don-roadway-walk-about-leg-6.html

Leg #7: 21 Don Roadway Walk-about - Leg #7: LDRT/Don Roadway Boulevard | http://ward30bikes.blogspot.com/2014/12/21-don-roadway-walk-about-leg-7-ldrtdon.html

Leg #8: 21 Don Roadway Walk-about - Leg #8: Don River Canal Wall | http://ward30bikes.blogspot.ca/2014/12/21-don-roadway-walk-about-leg-8-don.html

Leg #9: 21 Don Roadway Walk-about - Leg #9: Don Roadway / LDT | http://ward30bikes.blogspot.ca/2014/12/21-don-roadway-walk-about-leg-9-don.html

Leg #10: 21 Don Roadway Walk-about - Leg #10: Lake Shore Boulevard Bridge | http://ward30bikes.blogspot.ca/2014/12/21-don-roadway-walk-about-leg-10-lake.html



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