{"id":1331,"date":"2006-11-14T23:11:22","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T03:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2006-11-15T08:54:19","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T12:54:19","slug":"crossing-anywhere-on-st-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/11\/14\/crossing-anywhere-on-st-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing anywhere on St. George"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Star<\/em>‘s “Fixer” had an interesting story recently about curb cuts along St. George St.<\/a> in the University of Toronto campus. During the current resurfacing of the road, the City eliminated curb cuts outside designated crossings — and then put them back in. It’s a reflection of the City’s ambiguous attitude towards pedestrians crossing mid-block<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the 1990s, this part of St. George was completely rebuilt in a pedestrian-friendly manner that encouraged students to cross the street at a variety of locations, not just at designated crossings. It was part of a fairly successful strategy of “psychological traffic calming” whereby cars slow down when they realize that they are sharing the street space with others. When the city first resurfaced the street this year, it removed the curb cuts that had been introduced as part of this plan, because its policy is to discourage mid-block crossings (although they’re legal); then, once they realized that the extra curb cuts were in fact part of a deliberate plan, they had to re-introduce them.<\/p>\n

It’s a good example of how the city government needs to change its attitudes towards making streets, from a unthinkingly formal approach that is oriented towards moving traffic, to a flexible approach that treats a street as a complex system that can take a variety of treatments and knits together the surrounding urban fabric. More on this later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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