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posted on August 04, 2007
History of the City's Parks Plan, and where the land went
What happened to city's park plan?
By: ROBYN DOOLITTLE, STAFF REPORTER
Published: August 03, 2007
Source: thestar.comOnce upon a time, in a city long, long, ago, before the Gardiner Expressway and dozens of grey condominiums, downtown Toronto was blanketed in park space.
If you added it all up, in the early 1800s, Toronto had more foliage than New York's Central Park. But today, the GTA's most usable parks – Sunnybrook, Agincourt and Bluffer's to name a few – are only accessible by car or the TTC.
Who in their right mind would plan a city without parks? No one. It was never supposed to be this way.