dt_toronto_geek
Superstar
Wider sidewalks, trees (using that underground gridding system for healthy root growth like up on Bloor Street), improved light standards, BIKE LANES - couldn't agree more!
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Thank you. I am not the only one who thinks this for Yonge.
My dream for Yonge is single traffic both ways. Those extra two lanes claimed will have 2/3 go to sidewalks and 1/3 go to bike lanes.
If you look at the numbers, Yonge St is a pedestrian artery, not a car artery, how much longer do the walkers in the city need to get squeezed between signs, and cars?
Why is there 4 lanes of traffic on Yonge? Single lane will reduce speed. On a pedestrian artery, that is a good thing. People should not be going 60 kmph on Yonge, but they do.
Please, please learn to spell the street name properly. For someone who lives so close to the street, you would think you'd know how to spell it!I live in the pantages at victoria/shuter and used to live up on grenville st. The amount of pedestrian traffic on young is pretty incredible year round, and in the summer it is unmanageable. It is one of the few places where the sidewalks are so crowded that safety becomes an issue. I have seen a few people get more or less squeezed on to the street.
The street-level retailers/restaurants are gimey but have variety from dundas up to bloor., it really is one of the most "dynamic" parts of the city. I hated it when I first moved here but it wins you over. I remember visiting the area as a tourist as well a decade ago and it is the one part that really feels like a city.
I don't see why Younge needs to be a car artery. If younge was squeezed to 2 lanes then cars would just get pushed east and west. Jarvis is under utilized for a big portion of the day as well as parliament and sherborne. Younge is full of stop lights, jaywalkers and long lines of cars, it is also worth pointing out that the parking is so bad along younge and the subway service so good that it is unrealistic to use your car to go and shop or anything. With criscrossing streetcars, subways and bus routes, younge is pedestrian heaven. . .. until it is too crowded to do anything.
Go 2 lanes, make it safe and make it comfortable for people to shop and enjoy the downtown.
Ryerson admessions are 10% from High School students and 19% from other groups, overall 11%.
UFT is up 15%...
The Downtown Universities are growing like crazy and considering the economy, admissions will likely rise further.
According to someone who I know was/is close to the project, or at least sitting on the jury for this project - this may or may not already be known, but that initial rendering that was put out, was more or less just a place-holder rendering of what it could be:
There was/is to be a RFP/competition to determine the final design. Now, I am not sure if what this person was referring to has already taken place, but when he mentioned to me that this "process is ongoing," I assumed he meant that there is stuff happening in the background that will ultimately be released at the appropriate time..
p5
With that image on the side of the building, I can't help comparing what stood across Yonge last summer