This is the community we call home: it’s a happy mix of low-mid rise apartments, bungalows, townhouses, single family homes, churches, schools and businesses.
The LRT will be going in directly in the front of the low rises on Byron Avenue and 500 metres from the backyards of many homes. Most of whom weren’t informed of this decision.
Even on an unseasonably cold spring day, the linear park at the end of my street is full of life: a few dogs and their walkers, bikers, and people walking to Westboro and beyond to Wellington Village. We met a friend and the conversation turned to the LRT; we stood there looking at the park, trying to get a sense where the station was going, and what it would look like it. Then we wandered in different directions on the path–what a great way to travel through our community.
Cleary Station will start at Sherbourne Avenue and run 100 metre west in an open trench the length of a football field before going underground and coming back up at New Orchard Station. The linear park will be dug up between the two stations removing all of the beautiful, mature trees that line this section (the city says it will widen the park to allow for pathways around the station, and plant two trees for every tree it removes).
Byron Linear park project: Documenting life in and around an urban park in transition 