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Originally Posted by Klazu
Doesn't seem to have happened in South Core despite all the tall towers going up. I was in Toronto back in 2009 and again this June and despite I could notice so much development having happened, street life in that area is still completely absent and didn't seem to have improved at all in five years.
Also the CBD gets eerily so quiet after 7pm that it doesn't feel all that comfortable to be wandering around alone. I am sure it's still safe (since this is Canada and all), but it feel completely abandoned every evening.
I don't get this same feeling anywhere in Downtown Vancouver.
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I tend to agree.
Toronto certainly is a busy city but the financial district is a wasteland after 6:00.
Actually all of the financial core is a wasteland for anything but banking and this is all due to PATH. A true urban planning nightmare which saps all life out of the streets and Toronto seems intent on expanding it everywhere. With Toronto's colder climate I can certainly see the rational behind it but the problem is that it has become so large that even on nice days the streets are dead because it has sucked all the restaurants and coffee shops underground.
Even on nice days there is nothing to do and no where to go for lunch except underground to yet another food court. You can count on your hands and toes the number of restaurants at street level in the financial core.
Vancouver's financial area is miniscule compared to Toronto's but it is far busier during the day and night. Considering the massive size and concentration of towers in Toronto, it probably has the deadest financial district on the planet and because Toronto is intent on connecting everything to PATH, it will only get worse.
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