Church Street is being pedestrianized — that wasn’t so hard, was it?
The recently approved pilot project proves the City can rubber-stamp such initiatives without endless consultations and excuses
By John LorincIn well under a year, which is like the blink of an eye in City of Toronto time, a plan to pedestrianize that portion of Church Street bisecting The Village went from being the subject of a master’s thesis to an election year pilot project, with scarcely a pothole on its journey to yes. The prospect of closing Church to cars had the backing of The 519, the local BIA, the local city councillor Chris Moise and about 3,500 signatures, the CBC reported — sufficient for the plan to sail... Read more
