[NoahB]

It seems that Chris Moise, the Councilor for the Church-Wellesley Village, is proposing a pilot project to pedestrianize 2 blocks for the summer. The closure would be from Wellesley Street E to Alexander Street.

His timeline is saying that planning started in November 2025 and would last until May 2026. And that it would be installed as soon as June 19.

No official moves at City Hall or council. Creating a thread to discuss it (and gush about how much I want this as I live there.)

Link to the TorontoCenterProjects page.

They also created a Survey at this Link.

Map of the initial 2026 proposal:

 

[NoahB]

Larger closures were considered but were pushed off for future years. Apparently, after "conversations with numerous internal and external stakeholders."

Note how they were trying to figure out the connections to the Anvil Lane parking lot.

 

[adHominem]

Montreal: we close many, many kilometres of roads every summer! It's great!

Toronto: well maybe we can do a couple of blocks of one road for part of the summer as a pilot after we think about it for a year