The short stretch of the Martin Goodman Trail from Commissioners Street to Lake Shore Blvd. has been paved completing the first phase of the Leslie Street Greening Project that will eventually see the Trail reconstructed right down to Unwin Avenue and the entrance to the Leslie Street Spit.

Some cyclists try out the newly paved Martin Goodman Trail along Leslie St. south of Lake Shore Blvd.

The Leslie Street Greening project is one of many improvements to the Martin Goodman Trail, Toronto's signature waterfront trail, that are being undertaken under the auspices of the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation. You can see all of the planned projects at in the following document. Martin Goodman Trail Improvement Update-Nov. 23, 2005. The Leslie Street Greening project is described on pages 24 to 27.

This project keeps with the design of the other improvements to the trail allows for pedestrian and wheeled traffic to separate by including twinned sidewalks and trial. It also includes tree plantings to green up the environment around the trail.

The trail turns east at Lake Shore at this new node that features a Waterfront Trial Map and some seating area. From here you can follow the trail to the Eastern Beaches.

The other end of the project is at Leslie Street and Commissioners. The project includes new recreational trail a sidewalk for pedestrians and tree plantings all the way along.

This project has had a few delays but the Toronto Revitilization Corporation has been trying to keep to its ambitious schedule of making improvements to the Martin Goodman Trial to make it a truly continuous waterfront trail.