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CITY ON THE VERGE OF OBTAINING PORTLANDS FOR LRT FACILITY

Neighbours are especially upset with the choice of location because they feel a 1999 agreement reached between the city and a neighbourhood liaison committee as well as Citizens for a Safe Environment to maintain the full ABTP site for sewage and wastewater treatment is not being honoured.

Some of the residents at a protest, were concerned about local safety issues as an estimated 154 streetcars will soon be travelling along Queen Street East and south on Leslie street to reach the yard.

What a shame...The Port Lands have the potential of being Toronto's next vibrant communities with greenspace and access to the lake...instead they are replacing the old factories and reclaimed land with Power Plants, Sewage Treatment, Cement Yards and LRV storage.

How are people going to be getting in and out of the East End (especially the Beaches) if there is a sea of hundreds of Streetcars blocking access to the Lakeshore and other main transportation arteries every morning??

Shouldn't they disperse these facilities across the city rather than forcing one community to burden all of the streetcars (potentially 400+)  for Toronto's proposed Transit City??

picture courtesy of EvidencE