One of many linear parks and greenways in the city, the Toronto Beltline Trail is one of our favourites. Traversing five separate neighbourhoods, this 9km trail lets you escape the hustle and bustle of the streets as you travel through the city.
Queens Quay, which runs east-west parallel to the lakefront, is the waterfront’s main street. It spans more than 3 kilometres from Bathurst Street in the central waterfront to Parliament Street in East Bayfront, the new waterfront neighbourhood currently being developed by Waterfront Toronto. In the central waterfront, we have transformed Queens Quay into one of the world’s most beautiful waterfront boulevards.
POSTED: MAY 7, 2014
BY: SAMANTHA GILENO
May 7, 2014, Toronto, ON—Queens Quay – Toronto’s main waterfront street – is being completely transformed. From an uninspiring thoroughfare to a beautiful waterfront boulevard. The new Queens Quay will connect waterfront destinations and help create a lively and active urban waterfront. But the makeover isn’t limited to above ground improvements. Much of the construction on Queens Quay is for new underground infrastructure – the municipal services we all need but rarely think much about.
October 1, 2013, Toronto, ON—Construction is on schedule to deliver the revitalization of Queens Quay for the spring of 2015 in time for the Pan Am Games. This massive revitalization project, from just west of Lower Spadina Avenue to just east of Bay Street, is rebuilding Toronto’s main waterfront street both above and below ground.
November 15, 2012, Toronto, ON— Waterfront Toronto, together with our government partners, officially broke ground today on a major revitalization project that is transforming Toronto’s main waterfront street into a world-class boulevard.
Construction along the 1.7 kilometre stretch of Queens Quay from just west of Lower Spadina Avenue to just east of Bay Street is completely rebuilding and revitalizing the area both above and below ground.
November 1, 2012, Toronto, ON— On November 5, traffic on Queens Quay will change to one-way westbound-only between Bay Street and Lower Spadina Avenue to enable revitalization of the street. Two travel lanes will be maintained as much as possible, and all north-south streets will remain open with eastbound traffic rerouted to Lake Shore Boulevard/Harbour Street. The one-way traffic operation will be in place throughout the first stage of street construction until Spring 2013.
June 4, 2012, Toronto, ON— The transformation of Queens Quay, Toronto's main waterfront street, into a world-class boulevard is now underway. Construction along the 1.5 kilometre stretch from just west of Lower Spadina Ave. to Bay St. will completely rebuild and revitalize the area both above and below ground.