Tables, chairs and huge planters have replaced traffic on roads running through both campuses. Now, with little more than a month left for the one-year closings, both schools are trying to hold on to the rare pedestrian space, indefinitely.
“It’s the main artery for the campus,” Ryerson’s vice-president of administration and finance Julia Hanigsberg said of the Gould Street closing. The U of T closing encompasses Wilcocks Street between Huron and St. George streets.
“In an urban campus like ours, there aren’t that many places you can just wander around and have that feeling of being in the middle of a university,” said Ms. Hanigsberg.
D - I went to Ottawa in the 90s. I recall how nice the no-car downtown was.
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Uptown Waterloo wants to meter and charge for on-main-street parking.
I saw a petition against it in a store.
Well, I am FOR it.
And so should the stores be.
Why?
Cuz it allows folks to easily find parking to shop.
As opposed to parking there for long periods.
Downtown Kitchener went through this a year ago.
They needed to deter folks who work downtown from occupying parking for shoppers all day.
Why should on street parking be free?
It amounts to an unfair, regressive subsidy for car owners.
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