Our latest laneway transformation is ready to be explored!

Laneway Park-ing in Leslieville is now complete and ready to be explored! 

Located just south of Queen St E between Logan Ave and Morse St, this laneway is used by local kids to get to school, and provides service and parking access to neighbouring businesses and homes. It now features Toronto’s very first full-coverage laneway road mural along its entire 90m length.

The complete suite of permanent physical improvements include a traffic calming road mural, colourful wall and electrical box murals, planters filled with native and locally-adapted species, LED light fixtures, and custom metal fencing. The highway grade surface coating ensures that the road mural will remain vibrant and protect the paving surface for the next 15 years! 

If you’re out for a walk in the neighbourhood this weekend, we highly recommend stopping by and checking it out. When you share your #lovethelaneways content on social, be sure to tag @lanewayproject! You can also click the button below or visit our project page for more photos and drone footage of the transformation.
 

Get a behind-the-scenes look at how laneway transformations come to life

In neighbourhoods all across the city, Torontonians are increasingly recognizing the potential of our vast network of over 2400 public laneways to add to the vibrancy and livability of their neighbourhoods. And as you know, at The Laneway Project we’re focused on transforming Toronto’s most overlooked and neglected public spaces into complete, living places. But how do these unique placemaking projects come to life? Our latest blog post breaks down how laneway transformations start with a set of community goals that turn into permanent physical improvements.

What's next at The Laneway Project?

The Laneway Project works on the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, whose stories and cultures have for centuries been systematically threatened by policies of dispossession and assimilation. Later this month, we’re super excited to reveal a transformation project in Central Hospital Lane in Moss Park-Cabbagetown. We’re working alongside some incredible artists, like Monica Wickeler and Nyle Miigizi Johnston, and organizations like Finding Our Power Together and Not Far From The Tree, to transform the laneway into Toronto’s first healing corridor with a stunning storytelling mural, a series of murals by emerging young Indigenous artists, and a set of healing gardens planted with native medicinal plant species. We hope that projects like these can contribute to increasing the present-day visibility of Indigenous stories and cultures as a living part of the city.