Clipping apparently from the early 1960s
Tunnel under Bayview pedestrian and parking mall from Millwod Rd. to north of Eglinton Ave.
Toronto historian Mike Filey has sent an old clipping which describes an election campaign idea to build a tunnel under Bayview Ave. from Millwood Rd. to north of Eglinton Ave. The story quotes former Leaside mayor Lloyd M. Dickinson as saying the cost of the scheme would be borne by merchants on the street. It appears to date from the early 1960s before the amalgamation of East York and Leaside. At the time, Bayview Ave. divided Leaside from Toronto and it appears that people were complaining then, as they are now, about traffic. But it seems likely the idea was not taken too seriously.
