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I see your point about scale - I really do like the intersection markers with the red arm, but i wish that aesthetic was represented in the other lighting - the current ones look too much like they came from a catalogue. But maybe thats just me. How about something like the lights on...

wow - Kitchener looks great. I like their choice of paving, street lamps and lighted bollards - much much better than whats been - and being - installed in the Downtown Yonge BIA zone. I understand the desire to light the sidewalk with smaller additional lamps, but the Yonge scheme has two many...

lol. lets sell the Dundas Square name too - maybe it could be Ryerson's Dundas Square. ca-ching! :)

How about we just sell the rights to exclusive in-station advertising, but keep the names. Let one company/organization adopt the station and install some creative and semi-permanent (but removable) advertising... If we change the names, we'll enter a cycle of name changes and that will be...

So glad to see sidewalk improvements around Yonge and College - it had too many and sloppy patch jobs. The new tree grates are good, but the parallel metal grate surface look to be spaced perfectly for collecting cigarette butts. They just land in there and get stuck. oh well. Also wish they had...

I fully agree that the tracks are the real culprit, but moving them (up or down) would be an engineering nightmare because the maximum slope for most things on rails is just 4%. The current tracks are actually on a berm and quite a bit higher than the grade of lakeshore. Trains would have to be...

I think the influence of more affluent people living in the neighborhood (particularly those from Aura, Five, etc) will naturally lead to fewer "super-low-end" stores - and hopefully allow for interesting independent shops (rather than a strip of dentists/dry-cleaners or chain mall stores)

I agree, Yonge needs some major urban design help, but it also needs a mix of new, old, seedy and clean. And I like the idea of a mix of big and small retailers - I would love to see a downtown Target above/below grade somewhere along this stretch...

PLUS, the attractiveness of an express toll route only works if the upper "free" Gardiner remains congested, which means you'd be collecting tolls from less than half of the traffic accessing downtown. And the "free" road would still require all the maintenance and service...

Burying the Gardiner is unrealistic - i mean it's good idea, but if we're going into totally fantasyland then let's invest in flying cars or raising downtown by 15ft (think of how much better the views would be - haha). Boston's Big Dig freeway-burying project will end up costing about 22...

It looks like the concrete pedestrian street-crossing surfaces at Yonge and Carlton are being removed - probably to be replaced with an asphalt surface with zebra markings (white stripes 60cm wide). I liked the solid feel of concrete under my feet - a continuation of sidewalk. Oh well, they...

Glad to see some sidewalk improvements. The street trees have been removed on both sides of Yonge (in front of college park and shoppers drug mart) so hopefully its a sign that new sidewalks will spread along the stretch. So badly needed. The new sidewalks are a big improvement (because...

Clearly there are more people in the mall than outside on that stretch of Yonge, but still, there are plenty of people on the street - like me when i want to avoid the chaos of shoppers. Even without changes to the ECs inside/outside connections, there is major room for improvement here. The...

I don’t entirely remember the old exterior, but I recall a scaffold tower with some s-shaped wind-activated whirly gigs and an overall 70s Ontario Place feel. I wish they hadn’t mucked it up especially with something so mundane. Too bad it was updated when fitting in was more important than...

I agree that the interior renovations are mediocre (at best). But, I really wish they would spend some money correcting those olde-timey brick facades on Yonge street. I cant imagine anything more hokey. I understand that the mall doesnt want too many people out enjoying the street, but still...

I hope the MLG awning is updated or, better yet, restored to an earlier version - that font was a bad choice.