taal
Senior Member
The only thing I don't love is the concrete edge in some places right at the water edge.
Some errors - 1. The Pier 27/Waterlink does not extend all the way to eastern edge of the Yonge slip; 2. Corus is just the building within the site you've bounded - the space north of it isn't part of the project.
The only thing I don't love is the concrete edge in some places right at the water edge.
I'm pretty sure they're planning to put the wooden boardwalk along the water's edge just like in the central waterfront.
I also noticed that. I sat in a chair near the water feature and I counted 9 cigarette butts just around my chair and that was a week ago, when it just opened. I hope someone maintains that sand because it can get dirty real fast. Why the hell would people throw butts in nice clean sand, on a brand new beach? Some people in this city are real pigs. How long will it be until the nice walkways are covered with black gobs of gum? Yonge Street is the worst. I've never noticed that in other cities. Does NYC or Montreal have that problem too? (or is it mainly a Toronto thing?)
just fyi - The beaches @ ash bridges bay are raked they also cleaned quite frequently - so I'm not really sure what your getting at.
Have you been to HTO at all? It's pretty darn clean - clearly they maintain the beach there as well - don't forget sugar beach isn't even open yet officially...
What am I getting at? Every time I go to a beach in Toronto, they are in crappy shape. The vegetation grows wild, the sand is full of all kinds of stuff, there are crumbling cement blocks and rusty piers everywhere. (not to mention a boardwalk that is falling apart) I have lots of pictures and video of dead fish, garbage, stones, branches, twigs, leaves, dog shit and even a shopping cart (on videos I made) of our messy beaches. I'm not talking about Centre Island here, I'm talking about Sunnyside, Cherry and The Beaches, all of which I saw last summer. I have never seen the sand clean. You know Toronto's "messy urbanism"? Well, Toronto treats our beaches like it does the light poles on Dundas Street, and by that, I mean they don't do a thing to properly maintain them. What other city in the world puts a dog run (toilet) right on a beach or has scruffy trees sitting right in the middle of the beach? (Cherry Beach) I was shocked the first time I saw that dog run, in the beaches. Anyway, I don't want to take this thread too far off topic, so I'll just say, I think our beaches are the most unkept, that I have ever seen. Wassagga beach is so much cleaner.
I'm not talking about the water, just the sandy beach and yes, I agree, H2O was looking good every time I've seen them, so I should say most of our beaches. (not all)