Attracting visitors to the foreshore via the Bath Street site!
What is the best use for the strategically located land at Bath Street, at the northern end of Toronto's foreshore and adjacent to the 'Greenway' former rail corridor?
Both areas have been poorly maintained, are poorly presented and are long overdue for a makeover. They could be linked by a low-rise structure at Bath Street that could accommodate a restaurant and an interpretive centre for newly developed features along and near the Greenway, and parking.
New features could include enhanced wetlands at Endeavour Bay and between Cary St. & Stony Creek, new pathways around Edmonds Bay and Blackalls Park as well as the petrified forest area, and a kayak launching area providing access to Stony Creek, Mudd Creek and Edmonds Bay.
Visitors would be attracted to the foreshore if the existing shared pathway from Fassifern Station is repaired and provided with new landscaping and screening and signage.
The prospect of reactivating some form of tourist rail transport would also be a possibility.
With the prospect of population pressures in Western Lake Macquarie being forecast by Council there will be a need for additional accessibility to the waterways around Toronto that have always been the drawcard for the area.
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