I was there and it one step forward and 2 steps backwards.
I cannot believe they want to put on street parking on every street in the core. Goes against the idea of making a city a transit city and more of an pedestrian issue.
I have no problems with the roundabout.
They want to take Sq One Dr west of Confederation Dr right through the park and school area west of Confederation Dr of all dumb things.
I like the idea for Sheridan College and Sq One Dr, but still see the cars speeding in this area.
You can put buildings in front of the existing building on Hurontario St, but will be thin.
It shows all the major links are to be removed from the Mall including Wal-Mart.
Sq One needs to reinvent itself from a single level to something like Eaton Centre and add more to it to make it a 7/24 centre.
Starting in May 2010, Rathburn is going under major construction for the next 18 months building the ROW for the BRT. A number of MT routes will be removed from the terminal with 26 staying on Burnhamthorpe 100%.
You will not be able to get onto Rathburn off Hurontario in Dec if not sooner as a new ramp is being built to connect to City View. You will have to go over to Duke of York to get to Sq One. The existing ramp will be used for transit only.
Rathburn will be reduce to single lane of traffic. I would like to see the ROW on the north side, but not sure where the infrastructure are for this to work.
Every other LRT is to bypass Sq One and only use City Centre to go north-south. No problem with this if the headway is under 10 minutes.
It was said the ridership will be heavier north of Sq One than the south and find that hard to believe considering there is less land north to create a density area to do that than the south.