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10/02/2005: "Corridors"
Granted, it has only been a month, but I'm enjoying my commute up to York. I'm told this will wear off any time now. I like that most of the subway line I take is above ground. The best section is around Yorkdale station, when the subway runs under the highway overpasses. The subway runs straight and no nonsense, and the highway is all graceful curves. I like seeing these overlapping infrastructures - like the walk last week (see Eric's post below) when we were walking through the woods, but with bridges overhead. The bike trail alongside the Don River where the DVP swoops over it is another place that has this awe inspiring effect.
Back to the commute - then there is the bus from Downsview station. Looking out the window on the 196 Rocket to campus, I noticed some orange snow fencing in the grassy Finch hydro corridor fields right before you get to York. Behind the snow fencing it looked like the vegetation was thicker, so I thought to myself it might be a community garden or an allotment garden. One day last week I got off of the bus a couple of stops early so that I could go have a look. Like highway overpasses, bridges, and the poor cooped up Don River, this hydro corridor is one of those places, conquered by planners and engineers, that is dwarfing and depressing but beautiful too.
The orange fencing turned out to be an allotment garden. This such a good place for this kind of thing. There are lots of backyard-less people living in the apartments in the area. The gardens are low to the ground, can coexist with the power lines, and they bring a human scale to this otherwise empty place.
