Toronto Mirvish Village (Honest Ed's Redevelopment) | 85.04m | 26s | Westbank | Henriquez Partners

[isaidso]

Next step on this stretch is to dig up the sidewalk to bury the electrical, lane reduction from 4 to 2, elimination of on street parking, attractive lamp posts, and idiot proofing the bike lanes so cars don't park in them. I suppose, Toronto will get there eventually but it will take another 2-3 decades.

 

[maestro]

Electrical has been buried for decades on Bloor and Bloor has already been reduced to two traffic lanes. Bathurst is still 4 lanes and the Steetcar grid is above ground. Reducing lanes on Bathurst would just make the 511 a pointless endeavour to ride. It will inch along in traffic. The TTC is not going to bury anything.

Cars aren't going away. There will be more of them. There's still a couple hundred parking spaces built for every 1000 units downtown and bike spaces are only built to roughly one per unit. Reducing every avenue to a traffic lane in each direction and without dedicated left turn lanes is not going to re-create Copenhagen. It's going to be Naples that looks like Tirana

 

[Chris R.]

Electrical has been buried for decades on Bloor and Bloor has already been reduced to two traffic lanes. Bathurst is still 4 lanes and the Steetcar grid is above ground. Reducing lanes on Bathurst would just make the 511 a pointless endeavour to ride. It will inch along in traffic. The TTC is not going to bury anything.

Cars aren't going away. There will be more of them. There's still a couple hundred parking spaces built for every 1000 units downtown and bike spaces are only built to roughly one per unit. Reducing every avenue to a traffic lane in each direction and without dedicated left turn lanes is not going to re-create Copenhagen. It's going to be Naples that looks like Tirana

Easy solution:

1) Bathurst North of Bloor single lane each direction, bicycle lanes and widen sidewalk.

2) Bathurst south of Bloor three lanes, one northbound automobile lane for deliveries and local access, both streetcar lanes transit only. Add bicycle lanes and widen the sidewalk and you're donezo.

Call me Jake Jacobs.

 

[Northern Light]

Easy solution:

1) Bathurst North of Bloor single lane each direction, bicycle lanes and widen sidewalk.

Viable, but north of St. Clair; and will happen, in due course.

2) Bathurst south of Bloor three lanes, one northbound automobile lane for deliveries and local access, both streetcar lanes transit only. Add bicycle lanes and widen the sidewalk and you're donezo.

Not happening in the near term, the blowback would be severe.

There are some options south of Queen where the ROW is wider, but they would likely require total reconstruction of the road, and I think probably favour a bi-directional cycle track on one side, but that depends on a number of choices, and also requires a dedicated cycling bridge across the rail corridor.

But Queen to St. Clair ain't happening any time soon.

 

[Patch]

From July 13:

Not sure how to feel about this faux brick/stone work... hard to tell from the photos but they are just printed panels.

What the renders showed:

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

...it does confirm that blue paneling is a thing.

Not sure why they decided to add colour here while almost devoiding it from every part of this project save the heritage structures...but by throwing it in with everything else here almost seems to be an afterthought, IMO.