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Henderson's, West Toronto Railpath, Toronto ON 12 Sep 2020
A bit of Dylan Thomas with your patio beer.
Excerpt from the Toronto Star of August 30, 2009:
As a teenager growing up south of the Junction, Joshua Barndt would wander around and spray graffiti on abandoned walls.
Last month, the 23-year-old returned to the neighbourhood with paint in hand – this time because the city wanted him there.
From July 7 to Aug. 5, Barndt and artist Jamie Bradbury, 27, led a team of five teenaged artists in painting a 122-metre mural along Dupont St. at Dundas St. W. underneath the new West Toronto Railpath for cyclists and pedestrians.
Art Starts, a non-profit organization that promotes local art, last week launched the mural, named after the Toronto Cyclists Union's motto: "Strength in Numbers."
"For me, it's coming back to old roaming ground and doing something that I'm allowed to do," Barndt said. "This is a neighbourhood ... (where) there's not a lot of access to contemporary artwork, so it's important to bring it down into the streets."
The $18,000 project was funded by the city's Graffiti Transportation Investment Program and the Toronto and Ontario Arts Councils.
As the viewer moves westward, the mural's colourful images present a narrative, first depicting the Junction's history, then themes about cycling in the city, followed by environmental issues, and ending at a utopia where nature coexists with city life.
"We've taken a corner that was undesirable," Bradbury said, "and within a matter of a month, it's completely changed the whole feeling of the area."
Railpath and Dufferin, Toronto On 18 feb 2023
The West Toronto Railpath, a trackside linear park and cyclce rout is being extended.
West Toronto Railpath, Toronto ON 26 Jun 2021
Plants are becoming spectacular along of the linear greenspace of the West Toronto Railpath.
Tineaux's art project at the West Toronto Railpath, with the Tower Automotive (now Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada) building in the background.
The Wallace Avenue Footbridge is a rare example of a multi-span pony truss, and also of riveted truss foot bridge. It is listed on the Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties. It was reported to have been built in 1907 with the trusses built by the Ontario Bridge Company.
Ahmaud Arbery, a fit athlete, was out jogging near his home on a Sunday afternoon in Brunswick, Georgia on February 23, 2020, when two white supremacists saw him, got their guns, got in a truck, chased him down, pulled up next to him, shot him at least two times, and killed him right there on the spot. Ahmaud was unarmed, broke no laws, and did nothing wrong. He was only 25 years old when he died.
The attackers were Gregory McMichael, a former police officer and retired investigator for the DA’s office, and his son Travis. When Gregory saw Ahmaud running in his predominantly white neighborhood, Satilla Shores, he and his son immediately armed themselves with a shotgun and a 357 magnum, hopped into their pickup truck, chased him down, and shot him.
AHMAUD ARBERY DESERVES JUSTICE
Artists: @Francis Pratt, @kizmet32