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In the week following Labour Day work began on the pedestrian and cycle bridge linking the Garrison Common at Fort York with the Stanley Park Extension south of Wellington Street. This bridge is essential to creating an off-road system of cycling paths in the west downtown. With the recent announcement that the West Toronto Railpath would be extended southward three kilometres as part of upgrading the Kitchener GO Transit corridor, the lower end of Railpath soon will be separated from Strachan Avenue and the Fort York Bridge by only a kilometre where bicycles must share the road with motor vehicles. A screening for archaeological materials having occurred earlier in 2016, the bridge building at Fort York began with the driving of deep piles to a depth of 20-25 feet at the four points where the two-span bridge touches down. The project schedule calls for the construction this autumn of a retaining wall along the north edge of Ordnance Park; the piling and pouring of concrete bridgeheads in Ordnance Park, Stanley Park Extension, and the Garrison Common; The Bentway Update: Turning Vision into Reality
and the placing of fill in Ordnance Park to facilitate final landscaping there. Work will resume in spring 2017, towards an opening of the bridge later next year. See the project’s website for updates and more information. http://fortyorkbridge.mmm.ca/#/home
Fort York Pedestrian Bridge looking east toward downtown Toronto. Credit: Image courtesy of DTAH
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