hockeybuddy
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So one family riding along Yonge when the streets are blocked off by signs, with police providing security? LOL
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So one family riding along Yonge when the streets are blocked off by signs, with police providing security? LOL
Nor have I, other than some foolishness when walking along sidewalks ...I have never, ever seen kids playing on those little plots of grass.
hockeybuddy - I'm not sure what you're arguing here. You're sending mixed signals about both Toronto and Mississauga, undoing things said by others before you and feeding into the stereotypes about Mississauga that people are trying to dispel.
Where is it that you actually live/work, as you seem not to have an on-the-ground knowledge of either place?
How can an intersection be pedestrian friendly when sidealks are narrow and people overflow into the street since corners are so crammed with people?
Hang on ... where are the strips of grass:Before I joined in, I sensed lots of snobbishness and anti-Mississauga posts from concrete jungle downtown urbanites.
Nor have I, other than some foolishness when walking along sidewalks ...
... Mississauga must be a dreadful place if the kids have to resort to playing on those strips of grass. Don't they have parks? I know that they have very few libraries, but I hadn't realised that they were deprived in other ways, poor things.
So, it's not pedestrian friendly because, being pedestrian friendly, there's too many pedestrians? Yeah, it'd be sooo much better if no one ever walked there...the sidewalks would be so much more efficient!
Worse than Fairview. It lets you off in a level of the parking garage that feels and looks very much like the bus depot on Dundas. Then you proceed into the parlour, err, the dropped ceiling washroom, and then wiggle your way into the mall like some kind of worm. The only people taking the Hiawatha line to the MoA were tourists, and each scratched their head at the awful connection. The Bronx mall bus causeway is for locals, who presumably can put up with awkwarder or uglier connections.
At least at Fairview you're let off into a parking garage with some light and air and then straight into Sears (unless one considers entering Sears worse). An escalator would help.
I guess the mall with the best/easiest connection to transit is either Eaton Centre or STC...perhaps STC wins because there's no tunnels to get to opposite-bound trains, though you do have to go outside very briefly and face a barrage of smokers and thugs. Square One's isn't horrible but it could be a lot better and probably will be in the future.
No thank god ... I think I'd shoot myself if I was that environmentally irresponsible ... either that or because I had to spend all my time cutting the grass.It's obvious you don't live in a place with a large front yard, backyard or grass lining along the street.
And yet the poor children still have to resort to playing on the fictional grass between the sidewalk and the street.Mississauga has very large parks.
Are you for real? Though your American spelling is giving you away ...Not the puny downtown kind where its wedged between a row of stores and a rental apartment, about a half acre but labeled a "park" by the city.
I can't say I've ever seen anyone sleeping on a bench in the parks around my house (which are far bigger than a half-acre); typically the sleep in the ATMs.Mississauga ones also don't have shady people hanging around them at night or have people sleeping on benches.
So your saying that Yonge street, full of pedestrians, is not pedestrian friendly, however downtown Mississauga, with lots of concrete, but no people IS pedestrian friendly?Lots of people does not mean its pedestrian friendly.
Hang on ... where are the strips of grass:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie...=Q2AWN-MWMIgC_gruUGu1Dg&cbp=11,143.33,,0,0.49
This is a downtown Mississauga intersection. There's no strips of grass, instead there is bricks between the sidewalk and the street.
More bizarre, is where are all the pedestrians?
Looks very concrete junglish to me!
I think someone is having us on ...
So the strips of grass will come later? What do they do, close the parking lane?Not all parts of Mississauga have grass, but as you just posted (thanks), you'll notice how more space there is for whatever is needed.
Simply contributing to the thread where the latest posts have to do with pedestrian-friendliness. Before I joined in, I sensed lots of snobbishness and anti-Mississauga posts from concrete jungle downtown urbanites.
No thank god ... I think I'd shoot myself if I was that environmentally irresponsible ... either that or because I had to spend all my time cutting the grass.
And yet the poor children still have to resort to playing on the fictional grass between the sidewalk and the street.
Are you for real? Though your American spelling is giving you away ...
I can't say I've ever seen anyone sleeping on a bench in the parks around my house (which are far bigger than a half-acre); typically the sleep in the ATMs.
I can't say I've ever seen a shady person hanging around the parks around my house at night either ... other than me perhaps ... (what on earth is a "shady" person).
But let's get to the point. You compared an urban downtown street like Yonge to Mississauga - however the photographic evidence suggests your completely full of it ... there are no grass strips in urban Mississauga ... nor many pedestrians ...