Many of his walks follow ravines and utility corridors, all oblique routes through the city. “In a major city, such as Toronto, where it can be busy, bright, loud, dirty and hard, these spaces can be an escape, a breath of fresh air,” he says. “There are also so many of these corridors that are fragmented by private ownership, lost to redevelopment, or simply overgrown and inaccessible,” says Heywood. He hopes the city will find a way to make public trails through all these corridors. While still walking Toronto, he, his wife, and young son have recently moved to Cambridge to escape Toronto’s high rents, but he’s also started walking and exploring there, too.

Source: thestar December 01, 2019 19:54 UTC