City council will debate making the King Street pilot project permanent today despite objections from some restaurant owners.
The pilot project gives streetcars priority use of King Street between Bathurst and Jarvis street as a way to speed up service.
The city’s data also suggests that spending in restaurants along King Street declined by 1.2 per cent in the one-year period following the start of the pilot project when compared to the preceding year. “The bottom line is that the third busiest transit route in all of the city is now working much, much better, as intended,” Mayor John Tory said during Tuesday’s council meeting. “It is not only working better for the people who were using it – 72,000 of them – but it is now working better for 84,000 people.”
The removal of the parking spaces allowed the city to create 19 temporary public spaces along the curb lane on King Street and as part of making the pilot permanent staff are recommending that the city spend $1.5 million on improving and enhancing those spaces as well as the infrastructure at streetcar stops.
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