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The Bentway: A Skating Trail Replaces Traffic Jams

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Toronto Transforms 1.75km Under the Gardiner into Public Space

A site of traffic standstills is steadily giving way to an active public space. Trails, open-air markets and an outdoor amphitheatre will animate the underbelly of the Gardiner Expressway from Strachan Avenue to Bathurst Street.

The Bentway

The repurposed underbelly of the Gardiner Expressway.

The Bentway, envisioned by urban designers and landscape innovators Public Work, celebrates the project’s location – the historical shoreline of Toronto – with a 220-metre ice-skating path and, post-thaw, a splash pad. The multi-phase plan will eventually stretch to Spadina

The Bentway Toronto

An artist’s rendering of the Bentway in summer.

The Bentway Skate Trail opens to the public on Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 11am.

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And a win for children in the war against fun

To write about urbanism in Toronto is to live in a constant state of disappointment. It’s not that good things never happen here. It’s just that, too often, our big-ticket urban projects fail to live up to the hype. We get promised a radical new addition to the public realm—a bold initiative to reimagine civic life—and we end up with a condo complex or an outdoor mall. A starchitect gets hired to re-design our most storied museum, and he makes such a hash of things that, fifteen years later, we find ourselves paying to undo his work.

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