44 North
Senior Member
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/05/18/ttc-urges-city-to-stop-tiff-closure-of-king-st.html
The King St TIFF closure needs to stop, but that is not going far enough.
The TTC needs to crack down on other road closures as well. The 10K last weekend is almost as bad as the marathon the weekend before. These road races shut down every bus and streetcar route that crosses them, and force a lot of weird detours, and make it very difficult to cross the street. There were a lot of TTC information people (the same people who give you directions during subway closures) hanging around the 10K route last weekend, and many confused people wanting to take various buses and streetcars.
These events are great for the city and should always continue (and then some), but that in no way discounts the points you make. The disruption is absolutely brutal. The confusion, congestion, frustration is palpable. When reading any of the downtown transit studies I don't think I've ever seen events or construction acknowledged as a real deal problem - which it very much is. It's just one more reason why bringing any RL/Queen Subway all the way across the south end of Old Toronto should be planned for today. It was always in the Big Move to be completed circa 2031...we shouldn't ignore this.