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Extra, Extra: Liberty Village’s Giant Zipper, Streetcar Detours, and Hockey Optimism
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- Developers in Liberty Village believe the area needs something akin to “a giant kind of zipper”—fancy developer-speak for a pedestrian-cycling bridge that would span the rail corridor at Abell and Sudbury streets. “We’re slowly reconnecting the city,” said Michel Trocmé, an urban designer. “The one area that’s missing is right in here, which happens to be the densest part of this area of west Queen West and Liberty Village.”
- If you find yourself on the 505 Dundas streetcar or 511 Bathurst bus between now and November 20, you’ll be treated to some exciting new locales and vistas: the intersection of Dundas and Bathurst will be closed until then for road, track and water main work, and both TTC routes will be obliged to detour around it.
- “Maple Leafs start western road trip brimming with confidence” is not a headline that fills us with any degree of dread, because we have no memories of hockey hopes being raised only to be dashed or of hockey optimism fanned only to be extinguished.
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