Location

175 The Westway. Take the Westway east from Islington. Just east of Islington, north of Eglinton. See Satellite map

Phone: non listed, call 311

Schedule

See Schedule tab

City Councillor

The City Councillor for this rink is Councillor Lindsay Luby

Westway Rink Profile

Compressors 100 hp plus 30hp and 15 hp glycol pumps

Rink change area: Clean and spacious. There's plenty of room. There are some rubber mats on the floor, but not in the washroom.

Staff: This rink is considered a "major" rink, meaning "supervised," according to the city schedule

Maintenance: The rink has its own tractor, which is kept in a garage. The ice is cleaned frequently as needed. 9 shifts a week.

Free shinny-hockey and pleasure-skating hours:

2012-2013

Free Pleasure-skating: Available a total of 4.5 hours a week , during prime time.

*prime time means after 4pm weekdays and all day on weekends

Cost to run this rink.

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Comments about this rink: e-mail us at rinkissues@cityrinks.ca.

Opening and closing dates:

Opens: Dec 1, 2012
Closes: Feb 24, 2013

Rink Diary 2012 - 2013

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Views of the rink

Posted rink schedule is wrong, see city brochure
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permit hockey players at Westway

From The City of Toronto Website 2012-13

For the skating schedule, go to Westway Rink page on the City website, then click on Skating.

For up to date listings of open rinks (not the same as scheduled openings), see Current Conditions on the cityrinks.ca Home Page

If you notice a different schedule at your rink, please let us know mail@cityrinks.ca
See also the City of Toronto Outdoor Rinks web pages.

Rink Diary 2012 - 2013

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Rink Diary 2011 - 2012

Saturday Dec.3 2011

Decent ice, but no sign up about opening date. Read More >>

Rink Diary 2009 - 2010

Dec.28 2009

ice resurfacer

At 4.20 pm, the rink was just being resurfaced, by a tractor/champion combo. 11 skaters (youth) were waiting in the change room, to go and play shinny hockey. They said that they always have to wear helmets, even when there's no rink guard -- the zamboni driver enforces the rule.

January 11 2010, e-mail for K.J. to CityRinks

What is the policy regarding parent-child shinny 8 and under on outdoor rinks in Toronto?

Should there be adults on the ice who are there with no kids? Should there be adults and teens playing a game but none of them are 8 or under? If there are more adults than kids, is it ok for the person in charge to allow the adults to use one half of the rink and the parent/child 8 and under to use the other half?

West Way every Saturday same issues.

January 14 2010, e-mail from Recreation Supervisor Terry Hickingbottom to CityRinks:

Our staff are expected to follow the posted schedule, we will review with the particular staff to correct this anomaly.

January 14 2010, e-mail from K.J. to CityRinks

I received an e-mail first thing this morning and then spoke to a supervisor, I believe its all been worked out OK now.

Thursday January 21, 2010

this rink has a formal entranceway

At 3.30 the rink had no skaters. The zamboni driver says the kids will come soon for drop-in shinny, but later on it's solid permits. He says he has very little drop-in, since the rink is so near the main roads and everybody knows about it. It's always booked. He says the kids from the neighbourhood come around sometimes to see if by any chance a permit has cancelled and they can skate.

Monday January 25 2010

I asked the dad who wrote in about the parent-child schedule, if everything was going well in that program now. He sent back this message: Oh yah its great now lots of fun.

Rink Diary 2007 - 2008

Saturday March 1

10:40am The ice has been cleared of last night's snow and is in good shape. A permit group is playing a vigorous game of shinny.

February 7

5:20pm There are half a dozen shinny players on the ice, all wearing helmets. The ice looks reasonably good, but is rough near the boards. The operator says the rink was able to open on time this morning despite yesterday's snowstorm. He says last night while it was still snowing he cleared the ice 5-6 times so that when the roving crew came in the morning there wasn't much snow to clear. Asked about nearby Valleyfield which was still covered in snow, he says in Etobicoke the priority are the 'majors' (larger rinks with boards and changerooms). Once the big rinks are cleaned, the roving crews go to the minors - smaller pads like Valleyfield and Buttonwood. He said a roving crew had taken Westway's snowblowing equipment and was out cleaning the smaller pads as we spoke. When it was pointed out that Sunnydale Acres, a 'major', was still covered in snow, the operator says there was an equipment problem there, but he didn't know the details. Three young men are inside the staff office along with the rink operator. They may have been rink guards.

January 12

It turns out the phone message was a false alarm. The rink ice was a bit thin toward the boards, but really not bad, and the hockey players said the ice was fine. The zamboni driver said he hadn't heard anything about the rink being closed.

hockey players say ice is fine

Westway changerooms

January 11

The city's rink information line 338-RINK, outdoor section, seems to have lost all of its information. At midnight on Friday, it had only an announcement that Westway, West Mall and Sunnydale are closed "due to the unseasonable temperatures...The remaining outdoor rinks in Etobicoke/York will have skateable ice.....except Humber Valley." Then it says to call back on Monday. If you stay on the line, the same message repeats, and if you still stay on the line, you get transferred to a PFR office that says they're closed for the weekend.

Second problem is that the other city rinks didn't lose their ice, although they all had the same weather -- so why did those three? And why will it take all weekend to restore it, when the nights are this cold? This sounds like a maintenance issue, not a weather issue.