Friends of Railpath have been working with the City Departments, Councillors, and Metrolinx to make Railpath Stage 2 a reality. There is a lot of activity in and around the Georgetown Rail Corridor these days so there is a fair amount of planning involved in seeing Stage 2 happen.
A Feasibility Study was commissioned by the City to specifically look at building stage 2 and will report later in the fall.Many people are contributing their expertise on this including Friends. This study will also look at possible options for a Stage 3 going north.
There is also a Rail Corridor Local Area Study underway by the City Planning Department that will help shape development along the corridor and Railpath 2 is a big part of that. There is info on their site about how you can take part in the study in person or via email. Get involved. In July this site will be updated to reflect some of the feedback that they have received. Planner Sarah Phipps is the contact person on this study and eager to get feedback.
Local Councillors are on board but it never hurts to let them know that you want to see Railpath 2 happen. These two are most involved in Stage 2.
Where will Railpath Stage 2 go?
This gets asked all the time and it is best not to make promises before we really know but the hope is that the RP would continue south from Dundas on the east side of the rail corridor to just south of Queen. After that things are a bit unclear at this time. As well there is interest in seeing if the west side of the rail corridor could link up with the east side say at Wabash Park which would be amazing but entail some clever engineering; we are hoping too.
Stage 1 of RP took 10 years to happen but now that people are seeing it and loving it we are very optimistic that Stage 2 will take way less time.
