Sculpture: The Iron Horse by Robert Sprachman

The Midtown Yonge Business Improvement Area (BIA), in partnership with the City of Toronto, is pleased to announce the return of the Iron Horse sculpture to the Kay Gardner Beltline Park Bridge as a permanent public art installation. To commemorate the event, Midtown BIA invites members of the media and the community at large to attend the Official Unveiling of the new sculpture, The Iron Horse 2019 which will take place atop the Kay Gardner Beltline Park Bridge that crosses Yonge Street, just south of Davisville Avenue. sculpture is being manufactured locally using 90% recycled fiberglass and plastic materials to recreate the original, with a few modern updates. The new version will be much stronger and easier to maintain. A new solar-powered LED lighting system will softly illuminate the horses and pedestrian pathway, rendering the silhouettes more visible at night. The sculpture is designed to be unobtrusive to users of the bridge and will not impede seasonal maintenance work such as snow removal.

I really feel this is a very dangerous installation. This specific point is a bottle neck for the beltline with a lot of walkers, runners, and cyclists trying to squeeze through. One day someone is going to get serious hurt when a cyclist slams into these things or into someone due to lack of space. This should really be removed.

In 2019, the Midtown Yonge Business Improvement Area (BIA), in partnership with the City of Toronto, announced the return of the Iron Horse sculpture to the Kay Gardner Beltline Park Bridge as a permanent public art installation.This sculpture was manufactured locally using 90% recycled fiberglass and plastic materials. A solar-powered LED lighting system softly illuminates the horses and pedestrian pathway, rendering the silhouettes more visible at night.