The smells and scenes at this construction site brought back memories of when the 416 was built through the Bruce Pit. I remember the nauseating smells of chewed up vegetation mixed with the smell of oils from the heavy machinery. That is exactly what it smelled like here.
 
Witnessing the construction of the 416, watching the trees get bulldozed and the pond, which back then was more of a lake, filled in to make way for the road, and seeing confused foxes navigating the construction site and then later seeing dead fox after dead fox on the side of the road until all the foxes in the area had been killed by the wheels of progress, and hearing the natural silence replaced by bulldozers and then non-stop traffic, it all occurred when I was impressionably young and it kindled my enviromental conscious. What I saw today at the Terry Fox Drive extension construction site was in some ways worse than what I saw in the early 1990s with the 416. What I saw today may have been the most destructive undertaking by man I have ever observed in person.