Update — Friday, September 2, 2022, 5:22 p.m.: Construction on Cummer Avenue has ended and buses resume their regular route Sunday, September 4.
Update — Monday, August 30, 8:11 a.m.: Construction on Cummer Avenue and the resulting TTC detour continue until further notice.
Starting Monday, July 19, the City of Toronto is closing
- Cummer Avenue, westbound lanes, between Leslie Street and Bayview Avenue
to accommodate a project (.pdf) to
- Dig up the road surface;
- Replace City-owned water service pipes that do not meet City standards from the watermain to the private property line;
- Re-align maintenance holes and catch basins;
- Repair curbs, gutters and driveways;
- Install a new granular road base and base asphalt;
- Pave the road surface;
- Rehabilitate the bridge over the Don River, including:
- rebuilding concrete parapet walls, railings and approach slabs;
- replacing concrete deck and sidewalks;
- patch-repairing substructure piers, abutments and nearby retaining walls;
- replacing bridge bearings;
- replacing asphalt surface and waterproofing; and
- improving bridge approaches and drainage.
- Widen sidewalks;
- Raise crosswalks on Cummer Avenue at Ruddington Drive, Simeon Court, Snowcrest Avenue West and Mallaby Road to improve safety for pedestrians;
- Reduce crossing distances for pedestrians at the Pineway Boulevard and Mallaby Road intersections; and
- Replace the curb lane between Pineway Boulevard and Leslie Street with a protected bike lane.
The TTC is detouring buses along this route, while the traffic lanes are closed:
- 42 Cummer.
The TTC revised the schedules for buses along the 42 Cummer route to accommodate the longer detour path, starting Sunday, March 28.
(Updated — Monday, August 30, 8:11 a.m.) This phase of construction on Cummer Avenue and the resulting TTC detour continue “until August”, meaning as late as until August 31 until further notice.
42 Cummer
From Monday, July 19 until Tuesday, August 31, westbound buses operate along their regular route to McNicoll Avenue and Leslie Street, then detour:
southward along Leslie;
westward along Finch Avenue East; and then
northward along Bayview Avenue to Cummer Avenue,
resuming their regular route westward along Cummer.Westbound buses skip their regular stops
- on McNicoll Avenue at Leslie Street,
- on Cummer Avenue at Mallaby Road, Pineway Boulevard, Craigmont Drive, Beardmore Crescent [east], Fleming Drive and Simeon Court, across from Ruddington Drive and at Bayview Avenue.
Instead, westbound buses drop off or pick up passengers at temporary stops
- on Leslie Street beyond Cummer Avenue, across from Dexter Boulevard, at Castlebury Crescent [north] and Old Cummer Avenue, beyond Greyhound Drive and at Finch Avenue East,
- on Finch Avenue East beyond Leslie Street, at Pineway Boulevard, across from Page Avenue, beside #636 Finch East and at Tollerton Avenue, Gaspe Road and Bayview Avenue,
- on Bayview Avenue beyond Finch Avenue East, at Ruddington Drive and beside #3311 Bayview and
- on Cummer Avenue beyond Bayview Avenue.