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Poll #17126 Asking for a friend

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You wish to engage in criminal activity of a magical nature in Toronto[1]. It is summer. Pick a location:

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CN Tower
4 (13.3%)

Casa Loma
7 (23.3%)

Hart House
2 (6.7%)

Leslie Spit
2 (6.7%)

Atrium
0 (0.0%)

Eaton's Centre
2 (6.7%)

Union Station
2 (6.7%)

Other TTC station (specified in comments)
0 (0.0%)

Pearson Airport
3 (10.0%)

City Airport
1 (3.3%)

Elsewhere on Toronto Island
3 (10.0%)

Nathan Phillips Square/City Hall
3 (10.0%)

Regent Park Armory
2 (6.7%)

Queen Street West
2 (6.7%)

Queen Street East
0 (0.0%)

40 College
1 (3.3%)

Flatiron Building, Front Street East
0 (0.0%)

Don Valley (specifics in comments)
1 (3.3%)

Robarts Library/Majestic Turkey
4 (13.3%)

Public Library (specify branch in comments)
0 (0.0%)

Skydome
6 (20.0%)

ROM
7 (23.3%)

AGO
3 (10.0%)

On a streetcar
3 (10.0%)

Ontario Legislature
2 (6.7%)

Horseshoe Tavern
0 (0.0%)

Annex
0 (0.0%)

High Park
3 (10.0%)

Bloor Viaduct
6 (20.0%)

This other location:

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Please speculate freely on tactical, logistical, and other considerations in comments.
No, I am not going to blow up the location in question. Not even if it's the extension on the ROM.

[1] South of Finch, East of Kipling, West of Kennedy. Amalgamation can bite me.

Comments

[graydon]

Well, there's the rivers people buried -- Garrison Creek, etc. -- and there's the rivers the Lady of the Ice filled under the new shape of the land.

The Laurentide River -- the carver's river, the thing that cut the thousand-plus kilometers of the Niagara Escarpment, before it had a name or the Ice ground it down from four hundred metres high -- is down there, and the old river mouth is under High Park, right where the ur-basin of the ancient lake was, two and a half million years ago.

Ever wondered why the subway isn't, west of Dundas West? Or why the Eglinton LRT stops being in a tunnel when it does? The engineers know the river's down there. A Victorian valve failed in 2003 and mud and rocks and water went 10 metres in the air from Spring Ponds in High Park. There was much panic when it was realized there wasn't a water main there to break.

The flow rate's slow -- the river bed is full of sand and other glacial till -- but ten metres of artesian water at Bloor is nothing to mess with. Especially since the connection to Lake Huron via Georgian Bay is nigh-certainly still in place; you wouldn't want to find yourself trying to pump out your diggings once you'd woken the river.

[graydon]

Oh look, information not filtered through my defective recollections, complete with maps --

http://www.highparknature.org/wiki/wiki.php?n=Explore.LaurentianRiver