junctionist
Senior Member
I've heard no as the mall owners wanted nothing to do with this project. Which is quite non-sensical when you think about it.
It seems ludicrously bad from a business standpoint to oppose a direct connection.
I've heard no as the mall owners wanted nothing to do with this project. Which is quite non-sensical when you think about it.
Most likely owned by idiots who only drive and think transit is for beggars and poor people, whom they don't want in their mall.It seems ludicrously bad from a business standpoint to oppose a direct connection.
If there was a Darwin award for bad business decisions, they would be a strong contenderMost likely owned by idiots who only drive and think transit is for beggars and poor people, whom they don't want in their mall.
Just like the same idiots that oppose bike lanes for street parking.
Which is funny, because it's not like that "mall" is exactly doing great. If anything, it looks to me like it's in the worst shape it's ever been in terms of vacancies...Most likely owned by idiots who only drive and think transit is for beggars and poor people, whom they don't want in their mall.
Just like the same idiots that oppose bike lanes for street parking.
Most of the people crossing midblock (there's no such thing as jaywalking in Ontario) are connecting between the subway/streetcar and GO stations. The project is already providing a direct underground connection from the subway platform to the GO station so it will already eliminate most of the midblock crossings regardless of connecting to the mall.Can someone tell me if they expect to connect the tunnel to the crossways mall? I think this would be a great Because it would allow for a TTC entrance in the crossways. This would limit the amount of jaywalking and congestion that happens every day in this area.
Most of the people crossing midblock (there's no such thing as jaywalking in Ontario) are connecting between the subway/streetcar and GO stations. The project is already providing a direct underground connection from the subway platform to the GO station so it will already eliminate most of the midblock crossings regardless of connecting to the mall.
But if people are walking east on Bloor they can still avoid that crossing by using the new connection to the GO station. If they're going south on Dundas an entrance in Crossways wouldn't help them anyway.Another reason an entrance in Crossways would be great would be to divert some of the foot traffic from the current entrance that involves crossing the streetcar entrance and squeezing onto the narrow sidewalk on Dundas. This intersection is so crowded with students from the high school other pedestrians, not to mention all the cars trucks and transit vehicles, avoiding the bottleneck would make it that much more comfortable and less hostile. Huge miss by the myopic rent collectors at Crossways "mall."
This is getting off topic, but I knew someone who lived there from the late 1980s to the mid '90s, when the apartment building started to increasingly have a roach problem. One of the main things that has to be done to control their spread is to seal all the gaps around water pipes where they routinely enter and exit the apartments.Stupid is as stupid does right?..