Orchard Heights Park Spillway Crossing

#OrchardHeightsPark #OrchardHeightsBridge #EtobicokeCreekTrail
The Etobicoke Creek Trail is a 2.5 kilometer paved pathway winding south from the QEW bridge to Lake Ontario between West Toronto and East Mississauga. It features parks, playgrounds, ball diamonds, picnic areas, swimming holes, splash pools, a dog park, boat ramps and sand beaches on Lake Ontario. It offers walking, running, biking, rolling, wading, swimming, birding and nature walk opportunities suitable for all ages. It is fully serviced in season and is accessible year-round.
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The Mississauga Cycling Master Plan was drafted in 2010 and finally approved in 2018. It provides direction on creating an integrated cycling network of routes to connect communities and destinations throughout the City. To this end, a Pedestrian-Cyclist bridge connecting Mississauga's Orchard Heights Park to Toronto's Etobicoke Creek Trail was approved and endorsed by City Council in 2018. The funding was allocated and construction was scheduled for the Fall of 2019.
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As of September 2021, the Pedestrian-Cyclist bridge across Etobicoke Creek connecting Orchard Heights Park to the Etobicoke Creek Trail as planned and approved in the 2010-2018 Mississauga Master Cycling Plan remains unbuilt. As a result, Orchard Heights residents and Mississaugans of all ages, abilities and walks of life continue to be deprived of connected, convenient & comfortable access to designated routes for bicycle commuting and active living options in sport, recreation, leisure, adventure and the enjoyment of nature offered along the Etobicoke Creek Trail.
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For more information on the City of Mississauga’s Final Cycling Master Plan 2018, contact:
Mayor Bonnie Crombie
Ward 1 - Councillor Stephen Dasko
Ward 3 - Councillor Chris Fonseca
Mississauga Cycling Advisory Committee
www.mississauga.ca

[@Andrico77]

I used to live close to black creek. There used to be shopping carts and other junk in there all the time. No one
is trying to cross with a shopping cart. It was teenage kids who tossed it in. Precisely not the characters I’d welcome with a bridge either direction. The way the handle is facing looks like someone from orchard haven tossed it in

[@seanthompson2259]

No thank you!!!
I like my quiet little park as is
Building a bridge will only bring unwanted trouble to our side