God knows this is a lot better than the dump Yonge is now but it's just too disconnected and convoluted. If it wasn't to be a pedestrian-only mall from Gerrard to Queen, then they didn't need to have a Royal Commission on what to make it when they have a great example just down the 401 in London.
Dundas Place is exactly that, a place. A destination itself and not a road to travel down. London has created a beautiful space which still has 2 lanes of traffic, one each way, BUT it is a true flex street and can be shut down to traffic in, quite literally, 5 minutes and with no bike lanes. The city, even during COVID shut down the street Friday nights and didn't open until Monday morning in the summer. When barriers are required during such times, they simply raise automated pillions in the pavement...............Londoners don't need CN war surplus to tell them where they can and cannot drive. Dundas was also FAR more of a logistical problem than Yonge. Yonge runs only the vomit-comet while that section of Dundas was the busiest transit route in the city carrying up to 80 buses an hour.
This seems like a classic example of trying to appease to everyone resulting in appealing to no one.
