REimagining Yonge Street Environmental Assessment
Toronto
Ken Greenberg is working with MMM/WSP on an Environmental Assessment to examine means of reconfiguring the right-of-way of Yonge Street to emphasize pedestrian and active transportation use in a critical stretch in North York Centre, one of four centres in the City focused on transit-based employment and residential growth. At its core is Yonge Street from Sheppard Avenue to north of Finch Avenue, envisioned as one of the city's primary pedestrian promenades with a vibrant urban environment that promotes walking, cycling and safe passage across the street. Today the area is faced with challenges from inconsistent features such as sidewalks, pedestrian crossings and medians to lack of dedicated cycling facilities and concerns over traffic movement. The City of Toronto is looking at ways to create an attractive and consistent streetscape with design appropriate to the civic goals of the North York Centre that will serve people of all ages as they travel in and around the area for work, school and leisure.