It’s time to get cars out of Toronto’s High Park
. “For more than a century, cars have turned parts of the world’s most iconic park into a highway. Today, we take it back.”
Then the pandemic happened – and other cities started thinking such heretical thoughts. Even in Canada. The dominance of the car cracked, just a little. Cities carved out new public spaces for pedestrians and cyclists – reclaiming that space from streets previously reserved for the car. Toronto was among those cities. But with life returning to a semblance of normal, Toronto has been reverting to form. A popular program that made a handful of roads car-free on summer weekends, ActiveTO, has been largely gutted. In the purported war on the car, the car is faring pretty well.
And then there’s High Park. At the start of the pandemic, roads in High Park were closed to cars on weekends. Remarkably, this remains the case. The city now has to decide whether it wants to do more – or, as is usually the safe political decision in Toronto, less.The park, in Toronto’s west end, is 1.6 square kilometres – much smaller than Mount Royal Park in Montreal or Stanley Park in Vancouver.
Like the best urban parks, it offers a green escape from city life. Like the worst urban parks, it has five kilometres of roads, and almost 600 parking spots.Cyclists using the park’s roads are accused of pedalling with too much vigour. Some exceed the park’s 20 kilometre an hour speed limit; some do not come to full stops at stop signs. Police have been devoting resources to ticketing the two-wheel scofflaws.
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