LUVIT!
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King St. looks deserted...The transit program looks like a fiasco so far for the businesses and the general feel of the street.
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dannnnn
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Friday morning around 10AM. It was a little cool that morning and of course it looks empty. Everybody is at work. And when I'm taking pictures of buildings I try to keep people and vehicles out of my pictures.
ADRM
Senior Member
I was at Bar Buca Friday night, and at about 1am the sidewalks between about Portland and Simcoe were so busy, people were spilling out onto the streets.
The popular and successful businesses had lineups out their doors, and the unpopular and staid ones did not.
innsertnamehere
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It seems quiet because there aren't cars clogging it all up. the sidewalks are as busy as they have always been at 10am on a cold January morning.
Contra
Senior Member
That courtyard in the middle is going to be perpetually dark...wonder what they'll do with it.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
it's largely for vehicular servicing of the hotel from what I understand.
cruzin4u
Senior Member
Of course. Tory is a nut. He has completely ruined King St.
Lenser
Senior Member
The sky is falling too.
Bogtrotter
Senior Member
The hockey game was pretty amusing and a clever protest. Is there a significant decline in business or just a slight drop? I'm sure the min wage increase isn't helping matters for restaurants along there either.
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innsertnamehere
Superstar
What I've gathered is that essentially everywhere but restaurant row is doing just fine. And restaurant row is probably better blamed on the lack of shows at the Princess of Whales theatre and cold weather, not the streetcar.
Contra
Senior Member
That and it's winter when very few folks feel its right to venture out after work since its dark so early.
The restaurants are refusing to release their sales figures.
I am willing to bet that the protests themselves have made a difference to the bottom line, making enemies of transit riders in the corridor, where a completely different approach could have gained the restaurants new customers. "See how easy it is to get here by transit now?" is an message they should be spreading (and I've written that before). I was not a frequenter of Kit Kat Club nor Fred's Not Here anyway, as there are a thousand better places to go in the city for dinner, but following their attempts to get rid of the transit priority, I'm certainly never darkening their doors again. Al Carbone and Fred Luk are fools.
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Torontovibe
Senior Member
I feel exactly the same way!
Bogtrotter
Senior Member
Well if they feel their revenues are so adversely affected by this project they should at least provide some evidence of that- I'd at least sympathize to some degree. Otherwise a lot of people will view the road hockey scrum more as self-promotion than clever protest. Not to mention alienating many transit riders as you say.