Victoria Park

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Parks have roads primarily for maintenance vehicles to utilize. Having large trucks drive over grass isn't ideal.

But that doesn't mean the roads need to be public access. You could have a narrow road for maintenance to use run through the necessary parts of the park, and gates at the road entrances to keep the park otherwise closed to vehicles.

Sure, but just look at the map of Victoria Park. Jubilee is a necessary road to connect Victoria and Queen. It'd be nice if there were an alternative, but it offers a good shortcut between two major roads which is particularly useful now that Joseph got narrowed down to a sliver for a bike lane. Without it, you'd just add congestion to nearby residential streets.

Besides, Jubilee barely runs through the park itself. The big field next to the clock tower is more of an event space than anything and doesn't see that much use for anything besides that (would be nice if they had some soccer/football nets or some cricket patches for people to enjoy). It's a low speed street anyway, so at least the traffic is usually going through it at a tolerable speed. I don't frequently hear of anyone getting hit from cars using it, though I'm sure it has happened.