I'm curious to know if that leg of Church street was rammed through in the 1950s or 1960s to provide easy automobile access to Davenport road.
Even so, what we have today is a very unique opportunity to make something worthwile out of one of our very few five-point intersections in the city. I imagine that with better architecture, a thorough reworking of the surrounding public space as well as the removal of both the gas station and that frumpy building on the SE corner of Yonge/Church, it could be sort of like the Toronto's version of the original Potsdamer Platz.