Yes I have and there is nothing on PHASE 1 Queen east of Yonge until you get to Jilly's and that's gone now. The hipsters using the new hotel can walk 500 metres if they need to use the facilities.
Did you see King after the Jays games this year or during TIFF? Did you see all of the people going to the Distillery at night and weekends? Did you ever see the traffic around St. Lawrence on the weekends? TTC must be wasting all of OUR money by running 2x the service on King vs Queen until 2AM if Queen is so busy at night.
King and Queen are Apples and Oranges and you can't really compare them without looking at the whole picture.
Phase 1 going King St is almost the same as Queen as you claim and it is not on a straight line until you are at Ontario St.
Yes I have been down there during the events you talk about as well other ones. I am down there more when I am photographing the areas as well the new building and I have 125,000 photos on my site that represent only a faction that I have shot since 2005 that covers King and Queen as well.
Queen hasn't change much over the decades while King has and that about to change. Queen ran MU PCC that carry 60,000 rider a day until about the late 70's when the recession took place.
King has seen development due to business/manufacturing closing or moving else where and replace by residential. Queen has seen very due to the fact it was mostly residential and commercial in the first place. King St has less traffic issues than Queen. Development is about to come to Queen since most of King is built out. If the line goes west along King, you loose a huge chunk of land on the south side because the rail corridor as well being on a curve.
King see higher ridership than Queen these days because of these new residential buildings that have higher density than Queen.
King and Bay was made by the banks that became the employment centre in the past and that is now shifting to a wider area.
You fail to answer what places closed at 5 pm as you claim and that hasn't happen since the Blue Law was scrape as well being open 7 days a week now. Sunday is a different story than the other 6 days since a lot of business don't open that day in the first place.