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When Mark Garner first visited Yonge Street south of Bloor, it was the late 1970s and like many young people of the era, he came from a distance – in his case, all the way in from Scarborough – for the famous street’s sometimes seedy but ir res i st ib le ch a r m s : in those days, rows of video arcades and record stores, movie theatres, music venues, bookstores, and the then-fresh glass cavern of the Eaton Centre. If he were born a few years later, it might have been the early and evolving annual Pride parades that drew him downtown, or BuskerFest, or So much has changed in North By Northeast. downtown Toronto since the But these days, 1970s. Today, redevelopment is Garner – who is now executive director of taking place more rapidly than the Downtown Yonge ever, putting pressure on the Business Improvement few open public spaces in the Area (BIA) – is watching downtown core. the exploding redevelopment of Yonge Street As part of a series of ongoing major developments near Yonge and Gerrard streets, and other avenues in the the buildings behind Mark Garner, executive director of the Downtown Yonge BIA, downtown core, with will soon be replaced with several large condo properties. more than a faint worry Benjamin Priebe/METROLAND that without significant

change, those kinds of memories might be confined to an era. “These streets are the same streets I walked on as a kid from Scarborough,” he says. “They have not gotten any wider at all. They’ve poured new concrete, but this is the same street.” The street is the same but the buildings around soon will not be. The 80-storey Aura condominium tower at Yonge and Gerrard streets is currently the tallest condominium in the country. In a few years, it will be just the eighth tallest in Toronto, as new towers at Elm Street, Yonge and Gerrard, and Yonge and Bloor take form. And other buildings will occupy what has been useful open space in the neighbourhoods surrounding Yonge Street: the surface parking lots on Bay Street and, more crucially, Church Street to the east. When those go, so goes concert and marshalling spaces for the annual Pride Parade, and smaller festivals like Busker Fest and North >>>RAPIDLY, page 3

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Parade to honour local Olympians on Sunday The hard work and achievements of Beach swimming star Penny Oleksiak and all Rio Olympians who live and/ or train in Toronto’s east end will be fêted with a community celebration and parade this Sunday. The festivities will get underway at 11 a.m. at East Lynn Park, 1949 Danforth Ave., just west of Woodbine Avenue. A parade will then take place southbound on Woodbine Avenue and eastward along Queen Street. The red-and-white-themed celebration will continue at Kew Gardens, 2075 Queen St. E. at Lee Avenue, from noon to 2 p.m. The celebration is a joint effort by a number of community groups including the Beach Village Business Improvement Area and the Danforth East Community Association with the support of Ward 32 Councillor MaryMargaret McMahon. All well-wishers are welcome. The idea for the event came from a recent flurry of social media posts by area residents eager to celebrate four-time Olympic medal-winning swimmer Penny Oleksiak, who also >>>ATHLETES, page 16

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WHAT THE POET’S ARE DOING: Left, poet Shae Stamp drops in to Annie Wong’s ‘Centre for Mass Communication and Poetry Research’ installation at the Art of the Danforth hub in Robertson Parkette earlier this week. Above, Marjan Verstappen’s Art of the Danforth exhibit ‘Many Long Moments’ is mounted in an alley just south of the Danforth, eastbound from Lamb Avenue. Art of the Danforth continues until Aug. 28.

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DID YOU KNOW? Toron to’s dow n tow n i s growing at a phenomenal rate: In 2011, downtown Toronto had a population of 199,495. In 2015, city planners estimate that more than 240,000 live here. In 2025, that’s expected to double. Much of that development will come to live in new residential developments. In June 2015, 31,554 housing units had been submitted to the city in the form of planning applications. Another 28,812 had applied for or received building permits, and 16,321 were under construction.

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When you add people coming in for employment, downtown Toronto swells during the day to more than 830,000 people.

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by Northeast. “With this type of intensification, with parking lots disappearing for programming, how do we build a quality neighbourhood?” says Garner. “This was always the high street, the retail street. It’s been a music Mecca not just for retail but also performance. And we’re about to redevelop the street. What’s the character of the street to be? We all had a rite of passage on Yonge Street. The street we need to build now is for the future generations.” Toronto planners are seized of this question, not just for Yonge Street but for all of the downtown. With a huge growth in population, and unprecedented redevelopment of scarce downtown land, how does the city provide the public spaces that have in the past existed temporarily or in an ad hoc way? Earlier in August, Toronto Mayor John Tory announced a plan to spend what could be hundreds of millions of dollars to cover over rail lands south of Wellington Street, to turn it into a 21-acre “central park.” The plan is informed by an ongoing city planning project, TOcore, looking at comprehensive ways to “finish off” Toronto’s

downtown redevelopment that allows the much larger downtown to retain the charms and amenities that made it such a desirable place in the first place. “We’re finishing off the downtown and as we finish it off we need to make sure we don’t kill the golden goose by losing our open spaces and green spaces,” says Toronto’s Chief Planner Jennifer Keesmaat.

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That inevitably means investment – either in real estate, or in repurposing the public realm. In the case of the rail-cover park plan, that means spending as much as $20 million an acre on decking and landscaping overtop of train tracks. That might seem like a lot, but Keesmaat points out that purchasing land in the downtown core would cost the city between $50

and $60 million an acre. There is no rail corridor to build over on Yonge Street. There is, however, the street itself. And it’s here that city planners, the Downtown Yonge BIA and local Toronto Centre-Rosedale Councillor Kristyn WongTam are looking for relief. “The grand vision is to redesign and repurpose Yonge Street from Davenport to the waterfront, and rebuild the street so it’s much more dynamic… people friendly… pedestrian friendly,” says Wong-Tam. “If I gave you a street designed to be able to be turned over to festivals, with wayfinding and stages build into the street itself, would that not have value for a neighbourhood? Would that not have value with people?” Earlier this year, Wong-Tam and the BIA launched an environmental assessment to look at the possibility of turning sections of Yonge Street – or possibly the whole stretch – over to pedestrian malls, or at least widening the sidewalks. Garner admits that he has gotten flack from some in his organization who chaffe at the idea of shutting down a stretch of downtown roadways to cars. But he says his membership – and the data – bear this out.

The BIA have done traffic counts, and found that out of 42 million people travelling on the street, only a quarter do so by car, and just five per cent by bicycle. The rest are pedestrians. Keesmaat says that studies on other downtown streets suggest that cars should have even less primacy. On King Street, cars take up 64 per cent of the space but move only 16 per cent of the people. “Right now there’s a profound efficiency if we can shift infrastructure so that the infrastructure that moves the most people has the most allocation,” says Keesmaat. Spadina-Fort York MP and former City Councillor Adam Vaughan says plans like the Yonge Street plan will be essential to making downtown communities work in the future. “One of the things we realized is that we’re losing flat space to intensification and flat space is where people gather,” he says. “I think we sell ourselves short when we think of Toronto as culturally deficient – it’s one of the most vibrant places in North America. But if you don’t pay attention to it – don’t think about new ways to use residual lands – you’ll lose that advantage very quickly.”

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Federal funding for TTC is the exception, not the norm If you’re one of the unfortunate souls who’s been regularly riding Line 2 of the subway through the heat of this summer, you’ve learned some tricks. Before you get onto a subway car, put your hand through the door and see if it ignites. If it does, the air conditioning is off and you might be better trying the next car. If that one’s overheated too, you make your way to one end of the car or another, and conserve your strength until it reaches the next station, and try and move to a third car before the doors close again… and then repeat this until you find a car with air conditioning, or get to the last or first car on the train – which usually has air conditioning. In any case, it’s wise to hydrate. Because even if you eventually get in the right car, on weekends and off-peak you might find yourself waiting in the tomb-like heat of a station or during rush-hour, staring through suffocating crowds

david nickle the city as over-stuffed trains – many more of which are not air conditioned – pass by. Hot subways and crowded platforms aren’t the only problems that the Toronto Transit Commission is facing, but they are symptoms of the same problem: chronic under-funding, dating back decades, which has required commission staff to juggle priorities and in so doing deliver a service that at times barely approximates the reasonable expectations of its customers. And so it is that subway air conditioning during heat waves is managed rather than repaired, as the TTC’s backlog of repairs grows. There was a bit of kismet this week when the August heatwave broke for a couple of days, and the federal government came to Toronto

to announce the “down payment” of $840 million in funding for public transit infrastructure in Toronto. The down payment is substantial – $500 million, ear-marked for among other things subway repairs and bus repairs – which hopefully will include some of those AC units – but many other projects too: bike parking at TTC stations, new buses, escalator overhauls and more. The challenge will be to ensure that it keeps going, and that will be a trick. This federal money is atypical for more than its magnitude: it is not, as TTC Chair Josh Colle remarked, the kind of funding that visiting federal officials like to announce. No one wants to cut a ribbon on a repair job, after all, and that’s what these things entail. Really, a well-financed transit system shouldn’t need $500 million in one-time funding to bring its aging but not ancient infrastructure up to scratch; there should be a

consistent and sustainable funding source that allows ongoing maintenance and at least modest expansion. It doesn’t seem as though such a source is on the horizon. This fall and next year, the TTC will be responding to instructions from Mayor John Tory to cut $15.9 million or 2.6 per cent from its operating budget. That will be an annual reduction, and it is dramatic enough that TTC CEO Andy Byford reported earlier this summer that if implemented he would have no choice but to recommend service cuts. Given that long-term reality, one wonders how much longer it will be before another federal government has to open up the treasury to bring the system back to where it should have been all along. Better hang on to those water bottles.

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Angela J Cluney, 416-422-0510 Ext.25, www.leasidepresbyterianchurch.ca, admin@leasidepresbyterianchurch.ca COST: $30-$125 open to children in Jk-Grade 7with youth in Grade 8 and up welcomed as helpers.Community Service opportunities are available to the High School Students. Adult helpers for our program are greatly appreciated. Special assistance offered. Art Bar Poetry Series WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Black Swan Tavern, 154 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: artbarpoerty@gmail.com COST: Pass The Hat The Art Bar Poetry Series - featured readers plus an open mic. Check site for details and schedule: artbar.org

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Councillor Paula Fletcher and the Toronto Film, Television and Digital Media Office, said since the start of 2016 there have been 10 film and TV shoots at that site and it’s really starting to negatively impact his family and the neighbourhood. An adaptation of Stephen King’s book ‘It’ is currently being filmed at the vacant, three-storey mansion. “The noise is driving me crazy,” said Shcherban, pointing to the HVAC system at the site as well as the dozens of workers there all hours of the day and night. He is one of a number of area residents who have concerns about the volume and scale of productions being shot at that site. Keerthana Kamalavasan, a spokesperson for the Mayor’s Office, said the city is “proud of Toronto’s film and television industry and the Mayor wants it to continue to grow” but also realizes that the right balance needs to be found.

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Federal funding boost for TTC repairs, accessibility upgrades RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com With a badly needed injection of federal funding now a reality, the TTC hopes the money will be enough to complete essential accessibility improvements. “This will help us accelerate our designs for the next phases of improvements we need,” said Chris Upfold, the TTC’s deputy CEO following the announcement Wednesday by the federal government of nearly $400 million directly to the transit commission in funding for essential maintenance and repairs, as well the accessibility improvements. Meet Mandate The TTC has less than 10 years to ensure all 69 of its subway and RT stations, plus subway trains, streetcars and

buses, are fully accessible as per a provincial mandate. This means adding new elevators, ramps and exits, at a cost of approximately $10 million to $15 million per station. While currently halfway on that goal, the TTC has all but acknowledged that without additional money – it estimates it has $30 million to $40 million left from an initial budget of more than $250 million for the upgrades – it can’t make the deadline. However, with the new funding guaranteeing 50 per cent of the total project cost, Upfold was hopeful the TTC can complete all of its upgrades well before the Accessibility for Ontarians Disability Act, or AODA, goes into effect province wide in 2025. “We’re doing three to four (station upgrades) a year and if we maintain that pace we will get there,” he said.

“We do have the time, but we’re also doing the work at the same time we’re keeping the subway running. It’s almost like performing openheart surgery while running a marathon; we’re trying to fix this stuff at the same time as we keep going.” Fleet iMproveMents For AODA, the TTC will receive just more than $5 million for fleet improvements and a further 10 million for bus stop upgrades. It also gets more than $4 million for the purchase of 201 Wheel-Trans buses. Its Easier Access program of accessible station renovations also gets a boost of nearly $4 million. The TTC also received significant sums to tackle its repairs backlog, which stands at nearly $3 billion over the next 10 years.

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It seems New York City really likes our subway trains. New York’s own transit authority is planning to replace its existing cramped fleet with the open gangway models seen most commonly on the Yonge line, and so both the New York Times and the Post dispatched reporters to

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The Dufferin Street Bridge will close to automobile traffic following the Canadian National Exhibition. Metrolinx is planning to widen the north side of the bridge, located at the Queen Street intersection, as part of ongoing GO Transit RER (Regional Express Rail) expansion on the Kitchener line. The closure is planned for one month exactly, Sept. 8 to Oct. 8, and Metrolinx advises the work will also need to take place in evenings and over-

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