‘Flawed’ an understatement

Re New Queens Quay is lovely but flawed, June 30 Edward Keenan rightly describes the confusion and danger of walking, driving or biking on Queens Quay. Flawed does not even come close to properly describing the chaos created by the reconfiguration of Queens Quay. Traffic is snarled, turning is a nightmare and ingress/egress to the north side from the south side, between York and Bay has been eliminated.

Whereas, there was once traffic lights, which allowed a safe and convenient point of access to the park on the north side of QQ, which in turn provided a direct route to the Air Canada Centre and Maple Leaf Square shopping, now there is nothing.

Pedestrian access to these developments is now restricted to walking to the west side of York St., north on York to Harbour, then back across to the east side of York and then north to Maple Leaf Square. Surely, a set of lights or at the very least a crosswalk adjacent to the Royal Bank building would considerably ease the “gong show” that currently exists. Steve Craine, Toronto Re Toronto being mugged by developers, Letter June 30 I want to thank reader Richard Worzel for so succinctly articulating my feelings about living in the Yonge-Eglinton area. A few weeks ago I called 311 to complain that a section of sidewalk was completely blocked by Metrolinx, forcing pedestrians to brave speeding traffic in order to cross the street, the traffic lights being several blocks away in both directions. This in addition to the plethora of condos doing much the same have made living in this area a nightmare.

I disagree with Worzel on one thing: I no longer love Toronto and see a move in my future. Enough is enough. Julia Bowkun, Toronto