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Down Under the Queen Subway Overpass (or, DUQSO)

By Kevin Bracken


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Walking east on Queen St. W from Dufferin, we noticed a string of barely-perceptible lights on the once-rail-but-now-pedestrian overpass that separates Parkdale and West Queen West.
At first it seems like the lights are “official,” perhaps to warn absurdly low-flying planes that they were about to smack into the Queen Street Subway monument, until you realize that the lights are lots of different colours. Click on the picture above for a larger panorama.

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  • D Rywall

    Depending on where the lights are, it’d be cool to build big “lampshades” that could go over the lights and make the bridge into something beautiful. The lampshades could be all the same colour, or different colours for different times of the year. Don’t we need more senseless acts of beauty?

  • http://null andrew

    When did it become a pedestrian overpass? I’d still caution people about walking it or the other bridge. Trains are dangerous.
    I’ll check for this tonight on my way home. I love pretty lights. And that entrance to Parkdale gets a lot of love from Torontoist, what with the Zanta billboard and all.

  • http://www.newmindspace.com kevin bracken

    It is technically trespassing, but there are actually two bridges there: the eastern bridge no longer has tracks on it, which affords the opportunity to decorate the bridge with tags and paste-ups

  • http://null andrew

    It’s kinda fascinating. CN won’t clean up the graffitti unless they absolutely have to. I wonder when the City is gonna get around to issuing them a by-law infraction fine – MLS is supposed to go around inspecting property with graffitti and if the owner doesn’t clean it up, then MLS is allowed to do it for them, fine ‘em, and hit ‘em with the bill for clean-up. And if they’re going to hit some small mom-and-pop, it would be nice if they would hit CN.

  • http://www.jillmurray.com Jill

    I’ve really come to love that side of the overpass as a local landmark. People post some wonderful things up there. Have you noticed the puzzle pieces along the right hand wall going under the bridge, walking west?

  • http://null parkdale

    from safety sam…
    “When did it become a pedestrian overpass? I’d still caution people about walking it or the other bridge. Trains are dangerous.”
    seriously, thanks!
    anyway, they are not a string of light but actually Magentic LEDs (http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/02/how_to_make_led_throwies.html)
    you can head down to active surplus and build a bunch yourself. kinda fun to just throw at metal walls and such