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Toronto Beltline Public Meetings
Background
The Beltline Trail was originally constructed as a 1890s
commuter steam railway line that circled the City, looping from Union
Station up through North Toronto. The rail line was converted to
multi-use trail in the end of the last century.
The Beltline Today
The Beltline Trail is currently heavily used by
residents for hiking, running, cycling, dog-walking and passive
recreation. The success of the trail has partly led to its current
poor condition. Due to heavy use and improper drainage, parts of the
trail have been widened by foot and bicycle traffic up to 6m which has
contributed to the deterioration of adjacent naturalized areas. The
Beltline trail was originally designed in segments contributing to its
lack of continuity, poor road crossing treatments and lack of
wayfinding.
The City of Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation
and Transportation Services have begun a study to look at state of
good repair improvements to the Beltline Trail, including the section
through Moore Park Ravine.
The second set of public meetings will take place:
Date: Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Time:
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Open House), 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (Presentation & Break Out session)
Location:
St. Paul's Bloor St. Church, 227 Bloor Street East
and
Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Time:
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Open House), 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (Presentation & Break Out session)
Location:
West Preparatory Junior Public School, 70 Ridge Hill Drive
For further information, read the Frequently Asked Questions document (Nov. 26, 2012) (PDF).
We Would Like To Hear From You
Public consultation is an important part of
this study. You are invited to learn more and to share your insights and
opinions at any time. For more information, please contact:
Jason Diceman
Public Consultation Unit
City of Toronto
Metro Hall, 19th Floor
55 John Street
Toronto, ON M5V 3C6
Tel: 416-338-2830
Fax: 416-392-2974
TTY: 416-397-0831
Email: jdicema@toronto.ca
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Ontario Trail MembershipMembership renewals
for 2013 are going out December 1st, 2012 We are sending them to you as
our contact person - but is there someone else that has to absolutely
get the invoice in your organization? We wish to make sure they land on
the right desk! Board members or staff will be calling to confirm over
the next weeks.
OTC Membership is Value for Money : How do we stack up? This year we will have1,000,000 unique
visitors to the OTC website. For trails there is no other leader - not
even nationally - and I quote from Context Creative:
"ComScore is
a leading analytics organization that provides industry standard
rankings used by many companies to assess their performance and
investments in the digital world; many agency planners only go off
ComScore numbers in their media buying initiatives. There are a couple
of other trail sites as well, but Suite66 wasn't able to locate another one big enough to be reported in ComScore. So this is also impressive that OTC is present there.
For the month of September 2012, Canadian stats:
ComScore reports the following for comparison:
national outdoor org 50,440 UV’s / 249,000 PV’s
national geographic org: 41,000 UV’s / 114,000 PV’s"
So
please tell you administrators that even in terms of a couple of
hundred dollars in marketing expense, more people will see and use your
trails because of your presence on the OTC website. The site is no
longer supported by the province - so we need your financial support to
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Our Plan for 2013 – We are working with the full support of Our Favorite Place (RTO8), Peterborough and the Kawartha’s Tourism and a number of local trails groups
to bring you the best Trailhead Ontario yet!. There are a lot of new
trails and trail tourism partnerships in RTO8. The Ontario Trails
“Trailhead Ontario 2013″ Committee is is pleased to announce the Holiday Inn Waterfront Peterborough as the location of our conferencing. Site locations for our trail education program are being determined now.
New for 2013 -Regional
Tourism development includes trails. Trail packages, trail experiences,
trail destinations. This takes a blending of major destinations,
natural topographies, parks, conservation, county forest and up to 18
different trail activities. What’s in your “Trail Mix”?
What’s our plan for marketing this unique matrix of dynamic outdoor
experiences so that the world can find the world’s best range of trail
fun right here at home.
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Horses -
Rural communities in Wellington County are constantly seeking to increase economic activity. The horse industry has been one of the major forms supporting economic growth in rural Ontario. This research will investigate the potential for horse trail system development in Wellington County. The resu...
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