Looking good. I am disappointed that we didn’t take the opportunity to push back the building site’s northern edge and put a dual track bike lane and wide sidewalk along Gerrard’s south side from Parliament to River.
Was this not planned as apart of the larger Gerrard East Complete Street? What happened?
I assume the same happened on Gerrard as on Dundas, where instead of taking the opportunity of a lifetime (how often does one get to play Sim City and flatten a entire area) to widen the road-sidewalk space so to keep two lanes of vehicular traffic and add separated bike lanes and wide sidewalks, some planner at the city had an afterthought to instead remove a lane of traffic in both directions and leave the road-sidewalk space the same width.
But all documents I am aware of indicate that the former option (reconfiguration of ROW via expansion on southside) was/is being pursed. Please take a look at transportation services Gerrard Street East | Complete Street Connection. The document's introduction reads:
That seems unlikely. Clearly no one told the developer to shift their site southward and include the bike lane.
