At a recent family party, some of my in-laws and I were discussing one of our favourite topics: “What happened to Yonge Street?” Which is a conversation that always evolves, surely as the sun rises, into the problem of “What is happening to Toronto?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a group of people who loved Yonge Street. My wife comes from a family of cab drivers and diner regulars, city wanderers and late-night writers, appreciators of the eccentric shops and even more eccentric people who make up an urban scene \u2014 they’re a family with no professional connection to city planning but a keen interest in how cities work for the people just trying to live in them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the consensus in that group, widely shared by a lot of longtime Torontonians, is that the city has ruined one of the world’s great urban streets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘What happened to Yonge Street?’ Quashing Toronto’s character is the city’s mistake<\/a> – Toronto Star, December 5, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo: Sikander Iqbal<\/a>, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At a recent family party, some of my in-laws and I were discussing one of our favourite topics: “What happened to Yonge Street?” Which is a conversation that always evolves, surely as the sun rises, into the problem of “What is happening to Toronto?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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