The Martin Goodman Trail is a Waterfront Toronto opens new improved Martin Goodman Trail at Ontario Place
September 19, 2009 multi-use path along the waterfront in

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, Canada. It traverses the entire lake shore from one end of the city to the other, from

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in the west to the Rouge River in the east. The Martin Goodman Trail is part of the 730 km

Waterfront Trail Stretching over 3600 km (2236 miles) from Prince Township, west of Sault Ste. Marie, to the Quebec border, the Great Lakes Waterfront Trail is a signed route of interconnecting roads and off-road trails joining over 150 communities and First Na ...

around

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History

The trail, opened in 1984, was named for the president and editor-in-chief of the ''

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'', who died three years previously. In March 1992, the ''Toronto Star'' reported that the then-18 km trail was in the need of repairs, having potholes and a lack of signage where the trail did not yet have dedicated lanes. Repairs started in June 1992 with a $200,000 facelift. Since 2005,

Waterfront Toronto Waterfront Toronto (incorporated as the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation) is an organization that oversees revitalization projects along the Toronto waterfront. Established in 2001 as a public–public partnership between the Cit ...

has been responsible for filling in gaps in the trail, particularly along the central waterfront, and maintenance. In 2006, they added an extension to connect to

Tommy Thompson Park The Leslie Street Spit, or officially the Outer Harbour East Headland, is a human-made headland in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, extending from the city's east end in a roughly southwesterly direction into Lake Ontario. It is about long. The Spit i ...

on the Leslie Street Spit, as first proposed in 1989.Improvements proposed for Goodman Trail
Toronto Star, 1989 Starting in 2008 and finishing in 2009, a new 1.3 km section of the trail opened up along

Lake Shore Boulevard Lake Shore Boulevard (often incorrectly compounded as Lakeshore Boulevard) is a major arterial road running along more than half of the Lake Ontario waterfront in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Prior to 1998, two segments of Lake Shore ...

Ontario Place Ontario Place is an entertainment venue, event venue, and park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The venue is located on three artificial landscaped islands just off-shore in Lake Ontario, south of Exhibition Place, and southwest of Downtown Toronto. ...

The new section of trail converted 8,000 m² of

parking lots into green space and trail.

Path

In Sunnyside, west of the centre of the city, the trail runs where the old boardwalk is, and parallel to the current one. Similarly, in the Beaches, on the east side of the city, the trail also runs parallel to the boardwalk. The trail also passes through

Cherry Beach Cherry Beach (originally Clarke Beach Park) is a lakeside beach park located at the foot of Cherry Street just south of Unwin Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is on Toronto's outer harbour just east of the Eastern Gap. It was once connected ...

Gallery

File:Beaches 1984.jpg, The Beaches in 1984. The boardwalk and the Martin Goodman Trail are seen. File:Bridge over Mimico Creek, Ontario -b.jpg, The bridge over Mimico Creek, part of the trail

References

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History

Path

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