Toronto City Hall
100 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M5H 2N2
Attention: Matthew Green
RE: NY28.32 – Metrolinx’s Ontario Line Construction within the North York District – Fourth Quarter 2025 Update
This is to thank Transit Expansion and City Planning for the above noted report, which is focussed on the three Ontario Line Stations, the OMSF, the Ontario Line Guideway, the two Don Valley bridges, and IO’s Transit Oriented Communities in North York district.
We applaud the report in being comprehensive and inclusive of the status of all parts of the program, and we appreciate that it is vitally important that the City maintain a watching brief on the Ontario Line and Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) programs, and an ability to intervene, for example, when construction issues may create mobility and safety concerns.
Going forward, we request that the City give consideration to longer term impacts of the Ontario Line and TOC on Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon Park by undertaking Secondary Plans that would consider the population impacts, improving public realm, and infrastructure needs of the communities in light of the Ontario Line. This is clearly required in view of the limited mandate of Infrastructure Ontario.
Also, given the proximity of the Thorncliffe Park Station to Leaside and to the Leaside Business Park, we request City Planning’s attention to improving pedestrian and cyclist access to and from the planned Thorncliffe Park Station. The distance from Leaside is not far, but currently unpleasant, and frankly dangerous for cyclists.
Yours truly,
Geoff Kettel
Co-President with Carol Burtin Fripp
CC: Councillor Rachel Chernos Lin
Councillor Jon Burnside
Derrick Toigo, Executive Director, Transit Expansion Division
Jason Thorne, Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning Division
Frank Panacci, Director, Capital Implementation, Transit Expansion Division,
James Perttula, Director, Transportation Planning, City Planning Division
Ahmed Hussein, CEO, The Neighbourhood Office
Annissa Rodriguez, Co-President, Leaside Business Park Association
Cycle Toronto and Walk Toronto
