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innsertnamehere said:
Good thing the City is more or less planning to do that between Queen and Gerrard Streets over the next few years, and eventually plans to extend it north to Bloor.. It won't be quite full pedestrianization but will basically be an extremely car-light street with minimal vehicle traffic for local access only on a woonerf-type street which also protects for the ability for the TTC to run buses overnight for the vomit-comet.
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In reality, the TTC should go back to running streetcars on Yonge south of St. Clair. It'd take a big load off of the Subway system in the core, works better than busses with a more pedestrianized Yonge and would allow for more overall track diversion downtown in case of emergency/construction.
 
zang said:
In reality, the TTC should go back to running streetcars on Yonge south of St. Clair. It'd take a big load off of the Subway system in the core, works better than busses with a more pedestrianized Yonge and would offer allow for more overall track diversion downtown in case of emergency/construction.
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Hideously expensive project, nowhere to store the additional streetcars, and overhead wiring and poles littering Yonge. No thanks, hard pass.

In the longer term, there is a case for considering Bay Street, though said line would be underground south of Queen, and it's a lot of money for a road sandwiched between 2 parallel subway lines.
 
Northern Light said:
Hideously expensive project, nowhere to store the additional streetcars, and overhead wiring and poles littering Yonge. No thanks, hard pass.
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A pedestrianized Yonge would allow for centre poles, rather than strung across the street. That's if the system weren't able to be switched to the non-catenary styles being introduced by Alstom and the like, by the time it were able to be in service.

Storage will always be an issue for any expansion of the system, be it bus, streetcar or subway, and the system currently needs expansion on all fronts.

Northern Light said:
In the longer term, there is a case for considering Bay Street, though said line would be underground south of Queen, and it's a lot of money for a road sandwiched between 2 parallel subway lines.
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Our subway stations are way too close together in the core by modern transit planning standards. Where there should be maybe five stations, we have eleven. We could stand to take some of that strain off an already crowded system and improve the overall stop coverage for both convenience and those with mobility issues.
 
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zang said:
In reality, the TTC should go back to running streetcars on Yonge south of St. Clair. It'd take a big load off of the Subway system in the core, works better than busses with a more pedestrianized Yonge and would allow for more overall track diversion downtown in case of emergency/construction.
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Hopefully not!!
 
UrbanOzz said:
i would LOVE if Yonge street was pedestrianized. it's got the density for it.
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I think we could at least start with pedestrian Sundays like they do with Ginza in Tokyo. I'd like to see that for Queen West too (though the quality/quantity of interesting retail has been declining there 😢)
 
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