[Uptown] Erb/Bridgeport/Caroline/Albert Reconstruction

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I've always thought that the best thing to do and the "best planning practice" would be to convert Erb and Bridgeport into two-way streets, as they were for many years. In the particular area of this project though, I would see them as very high quality urban boulevards with no grass strips, but instead an expanded curb/sidewalk with street furniture, trees/ planters, lower decorative lamps. There is absolutely no reason why Uptown (and Downtown) can or should have only one 'Main Street'. Both are urban cores - it's about time we get outside of the bi-dimensional King Street corridor and start to create attractive, liveable, walkable places that people want to explore and support. There are businesses in all of these surrounding streets, there are lots of people living in them, and lots of people visiting and walking every single day.

How about we start a petition or approach the Region to propose this?