What does DTK need?

[ijmorlan]

What does the incline have to do with it? Pedestrianization basically just means changing the proportion of the street dedicated for cars from 80% (or whatever) to 0% while widening the (combined) sidewalks from 20% (or whatever) to 100%.

In terms of having a (nearly) car free passage from Victoria Park to City Hall, I'm fully on board.

But to me, pedestrianization also entails making it into a place. I don't think you'll have any seating/tables/patios on that incline. But maybe my imagination just isn't strong enough to see what could be done with it.

OK, that makes sense. It’s not super wide, so I think it would be OK if it were just a really wide sidewalk, but I agree it would be hard to put a patio there. And certainly in general it’s nice if the new space is not just “no cars” but also an actual destination in its own right.

One possibility would be to (roughly speaking) make the current car area into large steps (maybe 6m deep, or different sizes), so each one becomes a separate area accessed from the sidewalks. More work, but might have some interesting possibilities. I think the steepest part is near King, away from the area that might be kept driveable as parking access.