Comment 103827

By jason (registered) | Posted August 08, 2014 at 16:02:01 in reply to Comment 103814

all of this applies to King St in Hamilton. Just because we butchered in the 1950's doesn't change the fact that it was built as true neighbourhood 'high street' hubs east and west of the core, and as the city's main 'high street' through the Gore. Ditto for Main St and York St.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost...

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost...

Had we ruined downtown Dundas, Stoney Creek or Ancaster in the 50's we could apply the same logic as a means of resisting change back to the proper urban form in those areas.

And before anyone recycles the tired old Lloyd Ferguson line about downtown not belonging to anyone or being anyone's neighbourhood or having Manhattan style traffic, look at Queen St or King St in Toronto past and present.

Queen W:

Queen/Bathurst 1935 - https://losttoronto2.files.wordpress.com...

Queen/Bathurst 1962 - http://transit.toronto.on.ca/photos/imag...

Queen/Bathurst today - http://www.boldts.net/p3/TorQa.4.jpeg

Interesting to see with traffic volume drastically increasing over the years, TO resisted the urge to turn everything into a freeway. Hence, the area still has it's walkable 'high street' charm. The only reason we don't have this walkable charm on King, Main and York is because city hall refuses to allow our city to prosper and be revived.

Comment edited by jason on 2014-08-08 16:02:36

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