Work is proceeding on a new pedestrian bridge that is set to connect CityPlace to Front Street West. The project, funded by CityPlace developer Concord Adex, will run from the area around the new Parade Condos, in the south across the rail corridor, to an area between Portland and Draper on the Front Street side. Work is being done by the MMM Group.

For the past eight months, subway riders passing through Old Mill Station have enjoyed a spectacular view of one of the city’s largest construction projects: the $13.5-million rehabilitation of the Bloor Street West bridge over the Humber River. After being delayed for almost a year, construction, which began in April 2010, is now moving ahead [...]

Ask Torontoist features questions posed by you, and answered by our elite team of specially trained investigative experts (also known as our staff). Send your questions to ask@torontoist.com. Reader Mark Altosaar asks: During my semi-regular bike-rides through the Don Valley over the last fifteen years, I’ve always noticed these two peculiar bridges near the south [...]

The Bloor Street Viaduct. If it’s possible for a Toronto bridge to suffer from an inferiority complex, the Bloor Street Viaduct would be a primary candidate. Besides being immortalized in Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion, the iconic seventeen-hundred-foot bridge has appeared in film and in popular music. The defining Toronto landmark has [...]

Most people wouldn't associate Toronto with abandoned roads, but a few of them dot the city if you know where to look. One of the better examples is this surviving portion of old Don Mills Road as it climbs north out of the Don Valley. The current Don Mills Road is to the right in the picture above. The original road was realigned and widened in the 1950s to connect the new community of...