so there is nothing between 2-3 story and 50-60 story?

what "convenience"? Unless one lives within 5 minutes from a subway station and his destination is within 5 minutes from a subway station, which is very rare in Toronto considering our low coverage, the TTC is seldom more convenient than a car. People take the TTC to save money (parking, gas...

Because there is no "project" to speak of. Do we really call all this drama a "project"? All the 86 pages of discussion is about what? Nothing. What we see now as a "pilot project" is something that could have happened by the end of 2007, the year this thread started, without wasting so much of...

sounds great. Those hideous "pawn shops" are disgusting. but where is your source?

That's just CIA sponsored propaganda and only a fool would believe.

9 years later, we are still in the process of "talking". I am really impressed by people's patience. at the same time, what happens between 2008-2016 eslewhere (the animation is interesting!)...

It is not my version. I am not an urban planning so I just propose something that fix the problem that seem to make the whole plan "impossible". Not allow cars, but allow a very limited number of cars for a very short of period (500 meters max) and only on right lanes. Does it bother you? Tell...

People grow up liking different things. For me, the idea of eating raw vegetable (except carrots), sometimes even broccoli is pretty icky. North American cuisine in my opinion is still too simple and lack varieties (various burgers/sandwiches being the centre of it, plus steak). Asian and...

since it troubles you so much, I will just try something extremely simple: to allow cars registered with a King st address to run temporarily on King st, but not too far? And those cars will always be on the right lane trying to GET OUT King so they will never interfere with the 504. Again, do...

This is not a common Chinese dish (I have never had it) but there is nothing ick about it. The French has foie gras, andouillette (sausage made with pork, intestines or chitterlings) not to mention salad with chicken livers - I had it in Lyon, which was delicious. The Greeks make soup using goat...

Do you really think King can't be car free because of some condos whose only vehicle access is King st? That's our dilemma?

There is no "various reasons". Other cities such "various reasons” too but they just decided to deal with them, so could Toronto if it wants to. Thing is it doesn't want, it want to compromise with drivers each time. I am sure the reason is not because of "those residents whose only access is...

The point is cars block streetcars every minute, with or without pedestrians. Banning cars will move people much faster. Plus I simply do not understand why cars can't run on Adelaide 100 meters away?? Why to they HAVE to be ON King? Tokyo metro has a population of 38M and it is growing. Since...

WE both know a subway won't happen before 2040, if ever of course that would be ideal. The issue is how to make the pathetic King street car move faster NOW. That's all that counts. Also speaking of pedestrian zones, I was not suggesting it for the financial district. More for west of Simcoe...

I am afraid you are wrong here. All the pedestrian only downtowns I refer to allow trams to pass, just not cars (Bordeaux, Montpellier, Grenoble etc) and they work wonderfully. This is how much space of a major thoroughfare is given to the car in a well functional city in terms of transit. Then...

No, pedestrians want to walk on the street, not 15 feet above ground. Pedestrians want to make turns wherever they want, not follow a fixed path between buildings. I have walked on many of those elevated ways, trust me, I don't feel like enjoying the "Additional pedestrain experience". I feel...

I am not too familar with HK but Shanghai has tons of those elevated walkways and I deeply, deeply hate them everytime I have to cross one. One of the best things about north american (Europeans cities as well) is there is almost none of those monsters. It seems to be an Asian thing (Japan has...

dear, even the new towers with good design can't save our boring and ugly close-up skyline from the lake. The reason is that that all the buildings are too similar to each other in terms of colour, shape, cladding and nothing attacts one's attention. Also, stop building twins. I think we have...

I definitely agree. Current church st looks sad. I prefer some boring towers over this any day because at least they bring hundreds of people to the core.

it is just ironic that the need of a transit mall along King or Queen even deserves to be discussed this extensively in Toronto, as if the proposal itself were dramatic, revolutionary and controversial enough, as if the pros and cons need to be carefully weighed and quantified. It is really a...