There will be a Car-Free Day by the lake on Sunday, October 3rd, noon-4PM. They're closing off Lake Promenade between 42nd and 39th St. Both Cycle Route 2 and the Waterfront Trail follow Lake Promenade. At the west end is the waterfront Marie Curtis Park, and the Waterfront Trail continues into Mississauga.
If you've wondered "where the heck is Long Branch", it could be a great day to explore the south Etobicoke shoreline. It's a very nice ride west from the end of the Martin Goodman Trail and the Humber pedestrian bridge. You'll have to ride for a few kilometres on Lake Shore Blvd through Mimico, but this isn't the Lake Shore Blvd. expressway you see east of the Humber. The rest is quiet residential streets, and a few sections of trail through parks, the biggest being Sir Samuel Smith, which has a mini-Leslie-Street-spit you can ride out along.
The leaves will be changing, so it will be a pleasant fall ride.
By the way, they've done a couple of traffic surveys along that section of Lake Promenade, and bicycles outnumber cars and walkers combined.....by about two-to-one! They're planning to have a mechanic to help (for free) with any minor repairs.
A slightly cool, overcast day it was, as we started riding west from the Prince of Wales Park at 3rd Street & Lakeshore Drive. We took the Mississauga Waterfront Trail west and came across the Car Free Day festivities on Lake Promenade. Continuing west we turned around just over the bridge in Downtown Port Credit and headed back along Lakeshore Blvd window shopping. The surf on the lake was particularly angry today as can be seen from the breakers coming ashore. After the usual customary pit stop for a Timmies on Lakeshore we arrived at Prince Of Wales park again and loaded the bikes into the van for the return trip to downtown TO! 18 km, 3 hours.
If you've wondered "where the heck is Long Branch", it could be a great day to explore the south Etobicoke shoreline. It's a very nice ride west from the end of the Martin Goodman Trail and the Humber pedestrian bridge. You'll have to ride for a few kilometres on Lake Shore Blvd through Mimico, but this isn't the Lake Shore Blvd. expressway you see east of the Humber. The rest is quiet residential streets, and a few sections of trail through parks, the biggest being Sir Samuel Smith, which has a mini-Leslie-Street-spit you can ride out along.
The leaves will be changing, so it will be a pleasant fall ride.
By the way, they've done a couple of traffic surveys along that section of Lake Promenade, and bicycles outnumber cars and walkers combined.....by about two-to-one! They're planning to have a mechanic to help (for free) with any minor repairs.
A slightly cool, overcast day it was, as we started riding west from the Prince of Wales Park at 3rd Street & Lakeshore Drive. We took the Mississauga Waterfront Trail west and came across the Car Free Day festivities on Lake Promenade. Continuing west we turned around just over the bridge in Downtown Port Credit and headed back along Lakeshore Blvd window shopping. The surf on the lake was particularly angry today as can be seen from the breakers coming ashore. After the usual customary pit stop for a Timmies on Lakeshore we arrived at Prince Of Wales park again and loaded the bikes into the van for the return trip to downtown TO! 18 km, 3 hours.
