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Pedestrian Sundays are expanding this weekend. The first “Pedestrian Sunday” to take place outside Kensington Market is happening this Sunday, July 8, in Mirvish Village, on Markham Street from Bloor to Lennox, from noon to 9 pm.
This event is the first of a series of Pedestrian Sundays happening in Mirvish Village and on Baldwin Street this summer, as well as in Kensington Market.
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Technically it’s not the first, if by first you mean “the first in recent times.” There were pedestrian Sundays on Church street the same year that they started in Kensington.
You’re right – Church St. did try out Sunday closures in 2004 in tandem with the first summer of Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington.
Dylan is referring to the first “Pedestrian Sunday”, as opposed to the first regular Sunday street closure, outside the market.
I never did hear why the folks on Church St. decided not to do it again the next year… do you know?
Maybe they should start those up again too.
Finally!
Now can we PLEASE create some permanent pedestrian-only places — like in Yorkville and Yonge south of Bloor.
Most European cities and many North American cities have had very successful pedestrian-only zones for a long time now.
Why on earth does it take Toronto so long to get caught up to what is already the norm in other places?
So frustrating!