Keywords: Cherry Street and Lakeshore Boulevard -- Toronto -abcd.jpg Cherry Street and w Lakeshore Boulevard just north of the mouth of the Don River into Toronto Harbour Cherry and Lakeshore merge for about one hundred metres -- hence two intersections There are tentative plans build a streetcar plan down Cherry The raised highway is the Gardiner Expressway I am standing on a railway embankment <p>In 2014 mayoralty candidate John Tory backed a plan to for the aging Gardiner Expressway to re-route and rebuilt a portion of the Gardiner on a slightly more northern right-of-way just south of this railway embankment Tory was elected and this plan is one of three under consideration The other two are to fix the Gardiner from Jarvis Street to the Don Valley Parkway and to tear it down and widen the parallel arterial road Lake Shore Boulevard The teardown is the cheapest option Simple repair would cost half a billion dollars Realignment next to the railway embankment would cost an additional 200 million <p>What none of those advocating realignment are saying is that the tear down of the kilometer of the Gardiner next to the Keating Channel would free up a couple of dozen acres of potentially valuable waterfront property Cherry_Street_and_Lakeshore_Boulevard_--_Toronto_a jpg Cherry_Street_and_Lakeshore_Boulevard_--_Toronto_b jpg Cherry_Street_and_Lakeshore_Boulevard_--_Toronto_c jpg Cherry_Street_and_Lakeshore_Boulevard_--_Toronto_d jpg 50 2014-02-08 09 05 UTC Cherry_Street_and_Lakeshore_Boulevard_--_Toronto_a jpg Geo Swan Cherry_Street_and_Lakeshore_Boulevard_--_Toronto_b jpg Geo Swan Cherry_Street_and_Lakeshore_Boulevard_--_Toronto_c jpg Geo Swan Cherry_Street_and_Lakeshore_Boulevard_--_Toronto_d jpg Geo Swan derivative work Geo Swan stitched Geo Swan Cherry_Street_and_Lakeshore_Boulevard_--_Toronto_d jpg ImageNote 1 2676 449 182 134 5464 1373 2 Lake freighter ImageNoteEnd 1 ImageNote 2 903 417 230 144 5464 1373 2 Essroc Cement Silo ImageNoteEnd 2 ImageNote 3 3707 433 438 118 5464 1373 2 The rooster squat aka the grain elevators of the Victory Soya Mills ImageNoteEnd 3 Cherry Street Toronto Lake Shore Boulevard Toronto Toronto Waterfront Panoramics of Toronto 2009 in Toronto Gardiner Expressway Martin Goodman Trail Photographs by Geo Swan Taken with Kodak EasyShare C813 |