{"id":54120,"date":"2016-02-08T13:14:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T18:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=54120"},"modified":"2016-02-08T13:14:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T18:14:20","slug":"cars-are-part-of-the-mix-in-kensington-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2016\/02\/08\/cars-are-part-of-the-mix-in-kensington-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars are part of the mix in Kensington Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first areas I take people when they visit Toronto is usually Kensington Market \u2013 that dense grid of narrow streets stuffed with fruit and veggie stores, cafes, colourful vintage shops, and taco joints.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fun to navigate the market, threading between parked or slowly moving cars, crossing from one side to the other with just a casual glance over the shoulder. Kensington has a lively energy to which\u00a0many other neighbourhoods aspire. It\u2019s a neighbourhood that has found its pedestrian-friendly groove.<\/p>\n<p>You won\u2019t find special paving here, or curbless streets, or bollards, or any of the other tactics designers and planners now mobilize to make\u00a0other areas pedestrian-friendly and people-centric. It Kensington it just kinda\u2026happens.<\/p>\n<p>Still, in an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2016\/02\/07\/struggling-with-the-obvious-move-removing-cars-in-kensington-market-hume.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>\u00a0published in the Toronto Star, urban affairs critic Christopher Hume argues that banning\u00a0cars from Kensington is the \u201cobvious move\u201d and the area is a \u201cbattleground\u201d between cars and people on foot? A battleground? If any neighbourhood in Toronto can least be described as a battleground between cars and people, it\u2019s Kensington Market. More of a slow dance, really.<\/p>\n<p>Pedestrian-only Sundays are great, but I would hazard a guess that they\u2019re great because they\u2019re pedestrian-only Sundays and not pedestrian-only all-the-times.<\/p>\n<p>Go to Kensington and watch the main streets. Cars go slower, people spill off of the sidewalk and walk in the road or cross back and forth. This is Kensington\u2019s special sauce. By removing an ingredient you risk ruining it.<\/p>\n<p>Pedestrianization is a means to an end, not an end in itself.<\/p>\n<p>The desired end is usually a lively, comfortable, safe place that people like to go and hang out. Sometimes removing cars is the way to do it. Ryerson\u2019s Gould Street is a great example of an area that has flourished since cars were banished and people allowed to flood into the space.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes it\u2019s the slow\u00a0mix of cars and people and bikes that makes certain areas what they are. Go to Boston\u2019s North End and you find the same thing. Narrow streets with people spilling out of Italian restaurants, cars winding their way slowly through it all. It works because everyone understands that\u00a0people come first.<\/p>\n<p>We have something really special in Kensington right now, something that emerged on its own, over time. If it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/3336\/1710118565\/in\/photolist-3B7NER-5KNkWp-4QF8mm-4QF8Rq-4QF9k9-4QAWmn-4QF8cY-4QF8Cj-pe7WB4-q8Az6o-qaTqsV-pTiui7-pdTyCw-q8B76Q-q8AroQ-pTjpiN-pTrTA4-qaGwCi-pTj7gu-pTsnxp-pe7r6a-pTjcGu-qaTjS6-qaQjVL-qaPQkQ-pTrisp-qaT4CD-pdTwqA-qaPpSm-pTs3Vg-pe7Uwc-q8A8SN-qaTy34-pTiSYs-pe8hme-pe82y8-38LdE-8nRowQ-pTp2uM-pdQCE5-pTgfju-qaLSEq-pTgNVy-pTge9o-pTg6kN-pTgjhu-qaQhqZ-pTgdau-pTgPCA-pTgJUY\" target=\"_blank\">Diego Torres Sylvester<\/a>\u00a0on Flickr (cc)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This post was originally posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/thislandisparkland.com\/2016\/02\/08\/cars-are-part-of-the-mix-in-kensington-market\/\" target=\"_blank\">This Land is Parkland<\/a>, a blog about open spaces, large and small. Jake Tobin Garrett is the manager of\u00a0policy and research at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkpeople.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Park People<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first areas I take people when they visit Toronto is usually Kensington Market \u2013 that dense grid of narrow streets stuffed with fruit and veggie stores, cafes, colourful vintage shops, and taco joints. 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