Toronto Star: Neighbourhoods getting involved construction of TTC line

[font size="1"]Merlin Bartin, a member of the photo club at St. Clair West Seniors Services, stands before an outdoor exhibit that decorates an Eglinton Crosstown construction fence. Bartin says her only regret about the LRT is that it will be completed too late for some of her friends to see.[/font]


Tess Kalinowski
Transportation Reporter


The Eglinton LRT is already changing the face of their neighbourhood. So it was only fitting that residents’ own faces — many of them long-standing members of the Eglinton West community — be part of the street’s transformation.

That’s why visitors who venture into Keelesdale Park near the Chris Tonks Arena will see that the fence around the Crosstown construction site has been embellished with large-scale images of the neighbours and the nearby street.

One streetscape is so large, the photo so crisp, you might be tempted to walk right up the nearby hill it depicts.

The outdoor exhibit is called the Intergenerational Fence Project. It’s the result of a collaboration between the photo club at the St. Clair West Seniors Services Centre (actually located on Eglinton just east of Black Creek Dr.) and some university students. ..................(more)

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