King Street accessibility concerns
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Absolutely. Tory tried cracking down on deliveries but taxis are a difficulty. the only thing that would help is the bylaws changed so that during rush hour, taxis would only be able to stop on side streets.
King Street was the way many out of town visitors entered the downtown core to get rid of their cars until they left town. This is what you want. The problem was really deliveries stopping the right lane completely. There should be no deliveries or parking in curb lanes during rush hour. Bikes during rush hour also prevent cars from making right turns during rush hour. Cars were actually slowed by bikes from turning right and getting off King.
With the closing of the Yonge St Bay St exit from the Gardiner, out of town visitors put far more pressure on east-west streets like Adelaide and King. They now must exit on either Jarvis or Spadina and travel east or west somehow.
Eliminating a main East-West route before the Young St Bay St exit is open again is dumb ass stupidity of epic proportions. I hope the voters of Toronto also make this idea politically suicidal for misguided politicians. DUMB ASS BRAIN DEAD MISTAKE. This is so bad that you wonder if they are deliberately trying to kill businesses in that corridor so that another group of political donors can buy up the empty buildings on the cheap.
Many frequent visitors will try to exit the Gardiner much farther west and stay in a more northern part of downtown. Many first time tourists will perhaps never come back. Imagine the heartbreak of small businesses when the Christmas season they waited for all year is destroyed by politicians who still get a paycheck no matter how much harm and misery they cause.
A wise leader admits when they made a BIG MISTAKE and self-corrects immediately.
With the closing of the Yonge St Bay St exit from the Gardiner, out of town visitors put far more pressure on east-west streets like Adelaide and King. They now must exit on either Jarvis or Spadina and travel east or west somehow.
Eliminating a main East-West route before the Young St Bay St exit is open again is dumb ass stupidity of epic proportions. I hope the voters of Toronto also make this idea politically suicidal for misguided politicians. DUMB ASS BRAIN DEAD MISTAKE. This is so bad that you wonder if they are deliberately trying to kill businesses in that corridor so that another group of political donors can buy up the empty buildings on the cheap.
Many frequent visitors will try to exit the Gardiner much farther west and stay in a more northern part of downtown. Many first time tourists will perhaps never come back. Imagine the heartbreak of small businesses when the Christmas season they waited for all year is destroyed by politicians who still get a paycheck no matter how much harm and misery they cause.
A wise leader admits when they made a BIG MISTAKE and self-corrects immediately.
People buy things, cars don't. There are complaints now, because some people are avoiding King, and the general confusion on King probably isn't encouraging people to stick around to eat and shop. As things normal out, and the human throughput improves, business will recover and probably improve. Well, if the city figures out an effective way to keep people from making mistakes at the intersections, and things start to run more smoothly for everyone.
That's largely the trajectory things took on St. Clair, and now things are much better for the actual humans in the area. That's also independent of your complaint about how the city stages construction, and some of the cascading problems that emerge there.
edit: Just because of this thread I detoured to try the King St. pilot for the first time today. It was pretty much 2 PM, and it was probably the best mid afternoon trip I've had on King in a streetcar in as long as I can remember. I'd be shocked it the city cancelled this pilot. The streetcar actually managed to move through the heart of the city without getting randomly stuck a bunch of times. It was like night and day. If I get a chance I'll try it late on a Saturday at some point, because it used to also be awful when the bars and clubs let out...
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