Yonge Street Revitalization (Downtown Yonge BIA/City of Toronto)

[ssiguy2]

YongeTOmmorrow is about as half-assed as you can get. It was designed by and for cars with box checked for sidewalks.

Yonge should be completely pedestrianized from Bloor to King with 6AM to 10AM allowed for delivery trucks and none on the weekends. Every other city on the planet manages to have pedestrian only streets but in Toronto, the cars must come first. This is why Toronto will never have the public sphere that Montreal enjoys. Even supposed "car-loving" Calgary has a 5 block 24/7 pedestrian only zone right downtown and is the most successful in the whole country.

 

[abovegrade]

YongeTOmmorrow is about as half-assed as you can get. It was designed by and for cars with box checked for sidewalks.

Yonge should be completely pedestrianized from Bloor to King with 6AM to 10AM allowed for delivery trucks and none on the weekends. Every other city on the planet manages to have pedestrian only streets but in Toronto, the cars must come first. This is why Toronto will never have the public sphere that Montreal enjoys. Even supposed "car-loving" Calgary has a 5 block 24/7 pedestrian only zone right downtown and is the most successful in the whole country.

Never say never. You must not know about the Downsview redevelopment and that's happening in the inner suburbs.

 

[ssiguy2]

Downsview is in the suburbs, we are talking about the city's most important and prominent street.

 

[Northern Light]

YongeTOmmorrow is about as half-assed as you can get. It was designed by and for cars with box checked for sidewalks.

This statement is a gross exaggeration, and I'm being charitable.

Yonge should be completely pedestrianized from Bloor to King with 6AM to 10AM allowed for delivery trucks and none on the weekends.

Says who?

I'm all for pedestrian streets, and Toronto will get more of them, including some small sections of Yonge....... That aside did you just forget that there's a night bus on Yonge that needs to be accommodated, and many other issues....

Every other city on the planet manages to have pedestrian only streets

Really, every city?

but in Toronto, the cars must come first.

Toronto has slashed car lanes downtown on arterials roads by over 30% in the last 10 years.

That will work its way up to 45% in the next 5 or so............

This is why Toronto will never have the public sphere that Montreal enjoys.

No, Toronto will not enjoy as much of what Montreal has in this respect, in the near-term anyway, because Montreal has a public utility commission that buried its wires, because Montreal spends more on horticulture (flowers) and streetscapes, per lane km, and because Montreal has a huge head start.

But the gap will close.

Even supposed "car-loving" Calgary has a 5 block 24/7 pedestrian only zone right downtown and is the most successful in the whole country.

I'm laughing..........you clearly haven't been there.

 

[abovegrade]

Downsview is in the suburbs, we are talking about the city's most important and prominent street.

What makes that southern stretch of Yonge from where you've described the most important and prominent? When one transformation happens, it often creates a chain reaction across the city, so I think you're missing the point.