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rfmcdonaldKipling Station, located in the neighbourhood of Islington-City Centre West in the old Toronto borough of Etobicoke is the western terminus of the Bloor-Danforth subway line. People who want to travel any further from the downtown have to leave, have to take a bus like the 192 Airport Rocket or have to cross over to the connected Kipling GO Station to take advantage of regional transit.
Once I got out of Kipling station to the passenger drop-off area Sunday and took a looking around the neighbourhood, becoming steadily denser over time, what struck me was the neighbourhood's contrasts, its irregular development. Towering condo developments lie interspersed with large areas of low-rise development or no-rise, like the mazes of electrical wiring overhead or the flatness of rail routes and roads like Kipling Avenue. There is space here, space that will be filled soon but has not yet been fully taken over. This is a marked contrast to the downtown Toronto neighbourhoods I'm most personally familiar with.
Once I got out of Kipling station to the passenger drop-off area Sunday and took a looking around the neighbourhood, becoming steadily denser over time, what struck me was the neighbourhood's contrasts, its irregular development. Towering condo developments lie interspersed with large areas of low-rise development or no-rise, like the mazes of electrical wiring overhead or the flatness of rail routes and roads like Kipling Avenue. There is space here, space that will be filled soon but has not yet been fully taken over. This is a marked contrast to the downtown Toronto neighbourhoods I'm most personally familiar with.
