My project to document Trinity Bellwoods Park has been delayed.
Trinity Bellwoods has to be the busiest park per square foot in Canada.
It is a large park by urban standards, but is packed daily with people of every age and ethnicity. They seem content to claim their small piece of this great city experiment.
There is no doubt many people outside of Toronto would be appalled that so many people are so close together, but in inner city Toronto, packed streets and parks are part of what makes this city great.
The park is not terribly clean, there are weeds everywhere, as the city does not allow pesticides. Homeless youth sometimes camp out in the park. No one seems to mind. People tend to live and let live in the park.
Trinity Bellwoods is not a park without charm. There are mature trees, trails, plenty of hills. There are tennis courts and hockey rinks for winter.
I live right downtown and the city sidewalks and patios are packed 7-days a week at all hours of the day and night. The patio at the Irish pub across the street from my condo does not have an off day. Sunday through the following Saturday there is not a empty table to be had.
The whole Trinity Bellwoods experience reminds me a bit of the Charlton Heston movie, Soylent Green, maybe 15-years before the state of the city depicted in the movie.
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