The Bentway: A Skating Trail Replaces Traffic Jams
Toronto Transforms 1.75km Under the Gardiner into Public Space
A site of traffic standstills is steadily giving way to an active public space. Trails, open-air markets and an outdoor amphitheatre will animate the underbelly of the Gardiner Expressway from Strachan Avenue to Bathurst Street.
The repurposed underbelly of the Gardiner Expressway.
The Bentway, envisioned by urban designers and landscape innovators Public Work, celebrates the project’s location – the historical shoreline of Toronto – with a 220-metre ice-skating path and, post-thaw, a splash pad. The multi-phase plan will eventually stretch to Spadina.
An artist’s rendering of the Bentway in summer.
The Bentway Skate Trail opens to the public on Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 11am.
