The deep ravine of Rouge Park, soon to be Canada’s first “urban” national park, is crossed by a number of high voltage power lines feeding Toronto with power from the nuclear plants to the east. It’s one of those places on the periphery of the city where you see normally-hidden infrastructure that makes the city run. I wrote more about this trip, plus what we want from our city parks, in my Toronto Star column last week.
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My guess is … 230kv Gatineau corridor lines.
This is a very scenic spot in Rough Park, one of my favourite lookout. Te hydro corridor creates the opportunity for a straight bike path to and through the park. Cannot wait for the day when I can ride all the way from home to a national park with kids!
The Star article was a great call for urban things in urban parks. We need urban wilderness too; here in Hamilton I crave the tiny pieces of urban wilderness in my local area and am in them every day. But people love parks that speak to their everyday urban scale of things too.