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ksun said:
and that's exactly what we should do.
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Hear, hear! With the density that is going to transform Yonge, there's an opportunity to reinvent the corridor as a new kind of landmark street and front yard for the thousands that will live there.

Or we could just leave it as a set of pot-holed, dysfunctional lanes with streetlights every 100 feet. We'll probably go with that one.
 
Red October said:
That last picture outlines how much Yonge is in need of wider sidewalks.
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+1

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vatche said:
Make it one way. We have no options.
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Toronto seems to hate one way street believing it will lead to dead street, but how did they come to such a conclusion?

Manhattan has plenty of one way but vibrant streets. ok, NYC is a much bigger city, fine, but Rue St Catherine in Montreal is one way too, why can't Yonge be?

Then people use Richmond and Adelaide as examples, but when you really look at those streets, they have less actitivity because most stores there face Queen or King which are more prominant streets, while Richmond/Adelaide serve as the back alley, not because they are one way. Victoria st is two way too, how vibrant is that? Jarvis, Bay and University are all two way streets, not much urban life either, and in many way worse than Richmond and Adelaide.

Yonge from Queen to College and Queen W from Yonge to Spadina should be car free, but we all know the cars are too important and the city will collapse without them being able to run freely on every single street they want.
 
I was thinking on the way home, that the completed cladding will actually mask the diversity of floor heights/levels/slopes on the upper floors as they are not aliging the seams in the cladding with the floors (which is great, btw!). One will have to travel inside the building to fully experience the dynamics of this amazing design. Having said that, I trust that the exterior will entice pedestrians to "give it a look around", because this building truly deserves to be experienced (IMO, of course).
 
ksun said:
Toronto seems to hate one way street believing it will lead to dead street, but how did they come to such a conclusion?

Manhattan has plenty of one way but vibrant streets. ok, NYC is a much bigger city, fine, but Rue St Catherine in Montreal is one way too, why can't Yonge be?

Then people use Richmond and Adelaide as examples, but when you really look at those streets, they have less actitivity because most stores there face Queen or King which are more prominant streets, while Richmond/Adelaide serve as the back alley, not because they are one way. Victoria st is two way too, how vibrant is that? Jarvis, Bay and University are all two way streets, not much urban life either, and in many way worse than Richmond and Adelaide.

Yonge from Queen to College and Queen W from Yonge to Spadina should be car free, but we all know the cars are too important and the city will collapse without them being able to run freely on every single street they want.
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Hamilton hasn't fared too well with their one way streets.

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/2146182-urban-issue-the-way-forward/
 
I'm more comfortable with comparisons to Montreal or New York one-way streets than I am with Hamilton!! Toronto, and Montreal have similarly highly walked sidewalks, lined with retail. Just make sure cars aren't speeding by at 100 km/h and Yonge and Bay as a one way pair could work just fine.

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