Underpass Park
Mirrored ceiling
If you don’t live in Toronto you’re probably unfamiliar that an overpass highway separates the downtown core from the waterfront. City council has debated for years what to do about this problem, raising the possibility of dismantling the overpass altogether and constructing an underground passageway instead. Of course, Toronto city councillors are possibly the worst in the world, and a decision has never been made, let alone a plan put into action. These people don’t make decisions, they just bicker.
However, what they have proposed — possibly as an interim solution — is to build parks under the concrete eye soar known as the Gardiner Expressway. Today was the unveiling of the first completed park in the project. Mayor Rob Ford — a.ka. the worst mayor in Toronto history — was on hand, and sweating like a pig in heat. I’m not bitter! I don’t like Rob Ford, I think he’s racist, misogynist and homophobic, and this opinion I have of him has been informed by his ignorant musings over the years, and subsequent half-hearted apologies.
But I digress. I was able to snap some photographs of the event this morning. What do you think?
Photo op!
Swing, my favourite
I don’t know what these are
From a different angle
More mirror!
Snow cone!
“Mayor” Rob Ford, speaking to the press
Skateboarders
Basketball Courts
I possess great compassion and seek to be of service to others. 
I want a rainbow snow cone! Those climbing structures look amazingly fun. Also, Rob Ford sounds like an asshole.
Haha. He really is.
Love the park/playground idea and love the pictures. Can’t say the same of the Mayor as I hold him in the same contempt you do! What were they thinking when they elected him – Torontonians must have been having a collective melt-down that day!
Toronto has a problem in that the people who live downtown and the people who live on the periphery have completely separate ideologies. The problem with this is that when someone like Ford gets elected, decisions are made about downtown by people who do not live downtown. It’s just a mess, but right now it’s council who is running this city, as the mayor is completely ineffective. They block any of his measures. Thank heavens!
The round black and white things connecting the poles on the swings look like eyeballs.
They’re definitely interesting.