People shop at Iqbal Halal Foods grocery store in Thorncliffe Park on Fri., May 7, 2021. In each case, community members suggest that a different choice of site could minimize the impact. In the ravine system nearby, a new GO Transit layover facility would occupy space in the Don River Valley Park. The new subway line, scheduled to be completed in 2030 and carry 388,000 trips a day, is a centrepiece of the provinceвЂ™s plan for transit in Toronto that received a major funding boost from Ottawa this week. In the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood, a planned storage and maintenance facility meant to serve the $11-billion Ontario Line subway would force the relocation of a mosque and shopping plaza, including IqbalвЂ™s Halal Foods, a grocer that serves the areaвЂ™s large Muslim population.

OntarioвЂ™s transit agency is facing opposition on two fronts as it pushes through a major expansion of mass transit in Toronto, with community groups saying one new facility will do significant ecological damage in the Don River Valley and another will displace a retail outlet that is crucial to its community. Environmental advocates believe that the construction infrastructure of the layover facility will negatively impact the sensitive wetlands in the valley, notwithstanding MetrolinxвЂ™s claims.

The impact area of a proposed GO train layover facility in the Don River Valley Park in Toronto is photographed from across the Don Valley Parkway, on Fri., May 7, 2021.

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