{"id":1105,"date":"2006-08-28T17:13:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T21:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:51:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:51:37","slug":"the-lakeshore-median-parkland-or-parking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/08\/28\/the-lakeshore-median-parkland-or-parking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lakeshore Median: Parkland or Parking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/toronto_images\/images\/dsc_0053_palroyal.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20060828.PALAIS28\/TPStory\/?query=palais+royale\">an article<\/a> in the <em>Globe and Mail<\/em> today about the debate concerning parking for the newly restored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palaisroyale.ca\/\">Palais Royale<\/a>. A plan is in place to put the 125 space parking lot on the grassy median between the eastbound and westbound lanes of the Lakeshore.<\/p>\n<p>The city will also spend $160,000 to build a traffic light so pedestrians can safely cross three lanes of traffic on the Lakeshore to get to the venue. Some area residents are still unhappy, claiming the city never took some of their proposals seriously (like converting one of the lanes of the Lakeshore into roadside parking and dropping the speed limit). The Parkdale Residents Assocation will be holding <a href=\"http:\/\/parkdale.to\/?q=node\/121\">a picnic<\/a> on the median September 1st to protest what they consider the destruction of Waterfront parkland: &#8220;We will hold this picnic event to prove to the city the park can be used and must not be paved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the article, Palais Royale operator Terry Tsianos says, &#8220;Anyone who calls that median green space is terribly mistaken. I would never let my kids run around on a median between two highways. It&#8217;s not a green space, it&#8217;s land between two highways.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an article in the Globe and Mail today about the debate concerning parking for the newly restored Palais Royale. A plan is in place to put the 125 space parking lot on the grassy median between the eastbound and westbound lanes of the Lakeshore. The city will also spend $160,000 to build a traffic<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/08\/28\/the-lakeshore-median-parkland-or-parking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;The Lakeshore Median: Parkland or Parking?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[313,12,314,391],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-design","category-waterfront","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-planning","tag-the-globe-and-mail","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Lakeshore Median: Parkland or Parking? - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/08\/28\/the-lakeshore-median-parkland-or-parking\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Lakeshore Median: Parkland or Parking? - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There&#8217;s an article in the Globe and Mail today about the debate concerning parking for the newly restored Palais Royale. 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