THE PROMISE RECORDTORONTO · CIVIC RESEARCH
Promise trackerRoads & cycling
Roads & cycling

Replace Gardiner East with a boulevard

The current City programme retains an elevated rebuild; the boulevard commitment has not been implemented.

Changed course

The original commitment

Replace the eastern Gardiner with a ground-level boulevard.

Documented: 2023 campaign; documented 27 June 2023. Contemporaneous post-election roundup; exact announcement date not established.

CityNews: 2023 campaign commitments: contemporaneous roundup ↗

What would count as delivery?

An at-grade boulevard from Cherry Street to the Don Valley Parkway, instead of an elevated rebuild.

Delivered — but when?

2023 campaign deadline: No specific completion deadline established in the reviewed 2023 campaign record.

Actual milestone: Full milestone delivery not established. See the record for partial actions.

Late against the campaign deadline? Not assessable from the reviewed campaign deadline evidence.

Project schedule comparison: No comparable project deadline assessment established in this review.

CityNews: 2023 campaign commitments: contemporaneous roundup ↗

What the record shows

  1. Council approved the Ontario–Toronto New Deal, including the planned transfer of the Gardiner and DVP to Ontario.

    City of Toronto: Council approval of New Deal and reallocation of highway funds ↗

  2. The City reported progress toward the highway transfer.

    City of Toronto: Progress on transferring Gardiner and DVP to Ontario ↗

  3. The rehabilitation plan still specifies reconstruction of the elevated Cherry Street–DVP section using the Hybrid design.

    City of Toronto: Gardiner rehabilitation plan: elevated East End reconfiguration ↗

Action ≠ outcome

“Changed course” is this tracker’s comparison of the commitment with the current plan. It is not a claim that all highway-transfer steps are complete.

Qualifications & shared responsibility

The inherited Hybrid design predates Chow. Council decisions and Ontario’s takeover constrain the mayor; financial relief from uploading is a different policy outcome.

Sources for this record