I love High Park. It's the second largest green space in the City of Toronto and right beside the Junction neighborhood. But there are some problems. Despite having a subway line on its northern boundary, we've gotten the built form along its edges all wrong.

There's very little functioning retail. The densities and heights are not nearly high enough. The streets aren't great walking streets. And we've even gone and created undignified bus stops like this one here.

On top of all this, we're now doing this silly thing where police are ticketing cyclists for riding around the park with too much vigor and enthusiasm. I'm sure somebody called to complain and this is all reactionary politics, but an even bigger reaction has now been set off.

For those of you who haven't been following or aren't from Toronto, hundreds of cyclists took to the streets this week to peacefully protest what has been going on in High Park.

The Globe & Mail then followed it up with this important piece calling for an end to cars inside the park. The boundaries currently house about 5 km of roads and almost 600 parking spots.

Given all this, I figured now is probably a good time to revive one of Casey Neistat's original YouTube videos called "bike lanes." The story is that he gets a ticket for not riding in a bike lane. And so he films a video of himself only riding in bike lanes -- even if there are obstacles in his way.

It's an awesome video with nearly 30 million views. And I'm sure that many of you have felt like doing exactly what he does when faced with this same situation. I know I have.

What a beautiful day in Toronto. I love the heat.

I took the above photo this morning from the 7th floor of Junction House. It is a view south toward High Park. More specifically though, it is the view from the second and upper floor of what will ultimately become suite 607 (a suite that happens to be still available for sale).

Now that the building is almost topped out, I'm planning to run through a bunch of the suites with my camera and photograph all of the different views. I don't think I've seen something like this done before and I think it could be a pretty cool little photography project.

I was driving to the office from the Junction last week, and I passed a brave individual waiting at this bus stop on Parkside Drive:

I immediately thought to myself, "what an undignified and silly bus stop." There's a little bit of paving so you have a place to stand while you're waiting, but how do you even get there?

There are no sidewalks actually leading to said bus stop, and so you really only have two options: 1) jaywalk or 2) cross at some far away intersection and then walk unceremoniously on a narrow strip of grass and dirt on the side of a busy street.

Not surprisingly, this was the first time I had ever seen anyone waiting at this stop even though I take this route all the time on my way to and from Junction House.

I recognize that I was operating a motor vehicle when I saw this guy waiting for the bus. But I also took transit last week. And I know that we have it in us to do much better than what you're seeing in the above street view photo.

It's also a reminder that while High Park is really great, we need to work on its edges. Both the urban edge that I'm describing above, and the built form that surrounds our magnificent park. High Park is an urban park, but we seem to be a little uncomfortable with that idea.