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| - The Martin Goodman trail was one of the first bicycle paths in Toronto. It's named after a former editor at The Toronto Star. The western part of the trail is built along the path of the old Sunnyside boardwalk that was ripped up in the late 1950s, with the creation of the Gardiner Expressway.
The path is asphalt, and is a fairly wide bi-directional path that goes uninterrupted from the Humber River, in the west, to the foot of Bathurst Street, in the east. In between are some of the nicest waterfront areas in the city, including Ontario Place. Between the Palais Royale (bottom of Roncesvalles Avenue) and the Humber River, there is a separate boardwalk for pedestrians, though you will find a mixture of joggers, walkers, and inline-rollerbladers sharing the path.
A plus for year-round cyclists, like myself, is that the path is plowed during the winter. I would give this path five-stars, except pedestrians on the path between the Humber River and the Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion (bottom of Colbourne Lodge Road), sometimes turn this route into an unsafe obstacle course during the beginning of the warm weather season, and sometimes in the summer.
During the summer months, definitely a great way to spend an afternoon or early evening is to go for a bike ride along the path, and then finish it up with a beer on the beach-front patio at the Sunnyside Pavilion. I ride this path more often than my profile shows.
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