As part of my 2023 year-in-review, I said recording my walks on video was a precursor to expanding from the four cities (regions) I currently cover: Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge, Guelph and Hamilton. The next frontier in Metroscapes was going to be the west Greater Toronto Area (GTA), the urban areas of Halton and Peel Regions.
Well, I decided that there was no need to hold back.
In 2024, I will aim to begin covering other parts of the GTA and Niagara. All of this together forms a geographic region that the province of Ontario refers to as the Greater Golden Horseshoe.
Realistically, I will still be travelling to the west GTA a lot, as it’s closer to (i.e. a shorter drive / bus or train ride from) my home base in Guelph. And it’s going to take some time for me to flush out project analyses for these new areas (I’m tripling my coverage area from 1,370 to 3,960 square kilometres after all!). But no more arbitrarily hold off from exploring other parts of the Horseshoe.
The Niagara River. Frenchman’s Bay. The central and eastern 407. The upper GO Barrie Line. Corridors from the Beck Generating Stations. They are now potential targets for exploring where natural and built environments collide.
Happy trails friends.
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