urbanboom
Active Member
That is making the assumption that taking down the Gardiner doesn't totally destroy any ability to get around by car (or delivery van or truck!) and then property values crash. Do you not see cars in the underground garages of these buildings? Friends that I know who live on Queens Quay (or Tip Top) have cars - very nice cars. Make things much worse to get around and watch many, many people move to where they can get around.
It sounds to me like some people want to live in a small town where everyone knows everyone else's name and where you can leave your bicycle parked out front while you go to the butcher shop.
That is not how a city of 5 million functions. No amount of dreaming about a utopian paradise where everyone skateboards to work is going to become reality.
We may not be in a position to build MORE expressways, but we should be maintaining (and I dare say expanding) what we have.
Toronto is not getting smaller and cars are not going away. EVER.
^ If what I'm proposing is "utopian" than London, Paris, Tokyo and NY must be heaven on earth! The only people that drive are the ones who do so for a living: cabbies.