We are not drawn to its spaces because this segment of main street Toronto is not designed to inspire pedestrian pause and repose. Mayor Mel Lastman, the Bad Boy of North York politics, through will and personality, dragged the sleepy area of Willowdale into a new age. Like they’ve done in New York, urban planners here will have to start erecting functionally esthetic barriers to interrupt the path of future motorized menace. On April 23, the everyday activity of walking on a city street turned into a nightmare. The victims and their loved ones are fixed in the horror of that urban space.

Source: thestar April 27, 2018 19:06 UTC