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A motion tabled by Mayor John Tory permitted the closure of the popular route on âselect weekends.â
Other closures planned for ActiveTO include Lake Shore Blvd. E. between Leslie and Woodbine, along Bayview Ave. between Rosedale Valley Rd. and Mill St, and River St. between Gerrard St. E and Bayview Ave.
Councillor Stephen Holyday tabled a motion that if the program were to return to Lake Shore West that staff should explore modifications to allow access to parking lots for those wishing to visit the area by car.
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TORONTO Toronto’s ActiveTO program could be expanding to other neighbourhoods this spring to provide more space for people to safely enjoy the outdoors amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative launched last May and closed major roads in the city’s core to provide pedestrians and cyclists more space to physically distance to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. ActiveTO closures happened along Lake Shore Boulevard and Bayview Avenue from May to October. Mayor John Tory said he hopes ActiveTO will be scaled up and expanded to more areas of the city this year after a successful rollout last year.
Toronto confirms 14 cases of UK coronavirus variant
2:15 pm There are 14 cases of the UK coronavirus variant in Toronto, the city’s Medical Officer of Health Eileen de Villa said today.
During a press briefing at city hall, de Villa said the emergence of highly transmissible means Toronto is “medically” in an “uncertain phase of the pandemic.”
It’s not known how the presence of the variant will play out in Toronto. As such, de Villa said people should act as if the UK variant, which studies have shown spreads more quickly and can lead to more severe illness in some people, is spreading.